Elvis Costello

THE VERY BEST OF ELVIS COSTELLO (2001) DISC 1

Tokyo Storm Warning

The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery 
And spilled into the reservoir 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 

[Chorus:]
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 

[Chorus] 

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 

[Chorus] 

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


[Chorus] 

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" 


[Chorus]

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