Costello Elvis
Blood Chocolate
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
Tokyo Storm Warning
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13 Steps Lead Down 20% Amnesia Accidents Will Happen After The Fall (Macmanus) Alison All Grown Up (Macmanus) All The Rage Battered Old Bird Beaten To The Punch Big Boys Big Sister's Clothes Black And White World Blame It On Cain Blame It On Cain (Demo) Blue Chair Brilliant Mistake Charm School Cheap Reward Chemistry Class Clown Strike Clowntime Is Over Clubland Crimes Of Paris Cry Like A Rainstorm Damnation's Cellar Different Finger Don't Cry For Me Argentina Expert Rites Favourite Hour Fish 'n' Chip Paper For Other Eyes Glitter Gulch Green Shirt Hand In Hand Harpies Bizarre (Macmanus, Arranged By Fiachra Tre High Fidelity Home Is Anywhere You Hang Your Head Home Truth Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind? How To Be Dumb (Macmanus) Human Touch Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) I Almost Had A Weakness I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down I Hope You're Happy Now I Stand Accused I Thought I'd Write To Juliet I Want You I'm Not Angry Imperial Bedroom Inch By Inch Indoor Fireworks Invasion Hit Parade (Macmanus) Joe Porterhouse Jump Up Just About Glad Kinder Murder King Horse King Of Thieves Less Than Zero Let Him Dangle Lip Service Lipstick Vogue Little Palaces Little Triggers Living In Paradise London's Brilliant Parade Love Field Love For Tender Love Went Mad Lover's Walk Luxembourg Middle Of The Road Miracle Man Moods For Moderns Motel Matches My Science Fiction Twin Mystery Dance Mystery Dance (Demo) New Amsterdam New Lace Sleeves Next Time 'round No Action Oliver's Army Our Little Angel Pills And Soap Playboy To A Man (Mccartney, Macmanus) Poor Napoleon Possession Pretty Words Pump It Up Radio Radio Radio Sweetheart Rocking Horse Road Room With No Number Shipbuilding Shot With His Own Gun Sneaky Feelings So Like Candy (Mccartney, Macmanus) Sour Milk-Cow Blues Still Too Soon To Know Stranger In The House Sulky Girl Swine Taking My Life In Your Hands Talk Of The Town Temptation The Beat The Birds Will Still Be Singing The Comedians The Element Within Her The Greatest Thing The Invisible Man The Letter Home The Only Flame In Town The Other End Of The Telescope The Other Side Of Summer (Macmanus) The World And His Wife This Is Hell This Sad Burlesque This Town This Year's Girl Two Little Hitlers Uncomplicated Waiting For The End Of The World Watch Your Step Watching The Detectives Welcome To The Working Week White Knuckles Who Do You Think You Are? Worthless Thing You Belong To Me You Tripped At Every Step You'll Never Be A Man
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