Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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fell over cheap Korean monster- movie scenery
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And spilled into the mezzanine of
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the crushed capsule hotel
and the chemical refinery
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I knew I was in trouble but
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I thought I was in hell
So you look around the tiny room and
you wonder where the hell you are
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While the K.K.K. convention
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are all stranded in the bar
the main streets of Montgomery
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But they're helpless here as babies
Verse 2
'cause they're only here on holiday
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
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We're only living this instant
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Verse 3
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of a hundred cheap suggestions
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And a million false seductions and
Verse 4
joke? (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Oh, we'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
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We're only living this instant
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Verse 5
So they flew the Super- Constella
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tion all the way from Rimini
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And feasted them on fish and chips
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from a newspaper facsimile
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ies litter up the Broadway
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Some people can't be told, you know they have to learn the
Interlude 1
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Verse 6
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Holidays are dirt- cheap in
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the Costa del Malvinas
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In the Hotel Argentina they can
hardly tell between us
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For Teresa is a waitress,
though she's now known as Juanita
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In a tango bar in Stanley or
The loveliest and naughtiest
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She's Miss Buenos Aires
Verse 7
in a world of lacy lingerie
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
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We're only living this in stant
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Verse 8
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Japanese God,
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Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes
For all we know and all we care they
might as well be Martians
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They say gold paint on the palace gates
comes from the teeth of pensioners
They're so tired of shooting
protest singers
That they hardly mention us
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While fountains fill with second- hand perfume
that dampen down the day
Verse 9
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
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We're only living this instant, hey
Verse 10
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We braved the cold November air and
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"Take me to the Folies Bergères, and
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For he always had a dream of that
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How you loved him 'till you hated
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him and made him cry for mercy
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He said "don't ever mention my name there
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or talk of all the nights you cried
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We've always been like worlds apart,
now you're seeing two nightmares collide"
Verse 11
(Tokyo Storm Warning)
We'll give it a big kiss,
we'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big
bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#
Bm
We're only living this instant,
Interlude 2
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Verse 12
Outro 1
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