Tokyo Storm Warning Lyrics - Blood & Chocolate - Elvis Costello

The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery 

And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed capsule hotel 

Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery 

And I knew I was in trouble but I thought I was in hell 

So you look around the tiny room 

And you wonder where the hell you are 

While the K.K.K. convention 

Are all stranded in the bar 

They wear hoods and carry shotguns 

In the main streets of Montgomery 

But they're helpless here as babies 

'Cause they're only here on holiday 

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What do we care if the world is a joke 

(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) 

We're only living this instant 

The black sand stuck beneath her feet 

In a warm Sorrento sunrise 

A barefoot girl from Naples 

Or was it a Barcelona hi-rise 

Whistles out the tuneless theme song 

On a hundred cheap suggestions 

And a million false seductions 

And all those eternal questions 

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What do we care if the world is a joke 

(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) 

We're only living this instant 

So they flew the Super-Constellation 

All the way from Rimini 

And feasted them on fish and chips 

From a newspaper facsimile 

Now dead Italian tourists bodies 

Litter up the Broadway 

Some people can't be told 

You know they have to learn the hard way 

Holidays are dirt-cheap in the Costa del Malvinas 

In the Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us 

For Teresa is a waitress 

Though she's now known as Juanita 

In a tango bar in Stanley or in Puerto Margarita 

She's the sweetest and the sauciest 

The loveliest and the naughtiest 

She's Miss Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie 

What do we care if the world is a joke 

(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) 

We're only living this instant 

Japanese God, Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes 

For all we know and all we care they might as well be Martians 

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 

While fountains fill with second-hand perfume 

And sodden trading stamps 

They'll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day 

What do we care if the world is a joke 

(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) 

We're only living this instant 

We braved the cold November air and the undertaker's curses 

Saying, "Take me to the Folies Bergere 

And please don't spare the hearses" 

For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse 

How you loved him 'til you hated him 

And made him cry for mercy 

He said, "Don't ever mention my name there 

Or talk of all the nights you cried 

We've always been like worlds apart 

Now you're seeing two nightmares collide" 

What do we care if the world is a joke 

(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) 

We're only living this instant