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The sky fell over cheap |
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Korean monster-movie scenery |
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And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed capsule hotel |
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Between the |
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Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery |
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And I knew |
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I was in trouble but |
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I thought |
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I was in hell |
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So you look around the tiny room |
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And you wonder where the hell you are |
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While the |
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K.K.K. convention |
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Are all stranded in the bar |
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They wear hoods and carry shotguns |
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In the main streets of |
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Montgomery |
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But they're helpless here as babies' |
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Cause they're only here on holiday |
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What do we care if the world is a joke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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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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The black sand stuck beneath her feet |
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In a warm |
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Sorrento sunrise |
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A barefoot girl from |
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NaplesOr was it a |
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Barcelona hi-rise |
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Whistles out the tuneless theme song |
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On a hundred cheap suggestions |
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And a million false seductions |
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And all those eternal questions |
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What do we care if the world is a joke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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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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So they flew the |
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Super-Constellation |
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All the way from |
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RiminiAnd feasted them on fish and chips |
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From a newspaper facsimile |
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Now dead Italian tourists bodies |
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Litter up the |
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BroadwaySome people can't be told |
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You know they have to learn the hard way |
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Holidays are dirt-cheap in the |
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Costa del |
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MalvinasIn the |
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Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us |
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For Teresa is a waitress |
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Though she's now known as |
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JuanitaIn a tango bar in |
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Stanley or in |
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Puerto Margarita |
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She's the sweetest and the sauciest |
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The loveliest and the naughtiest |
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She's Miss |
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Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie |
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What do we care if the world is a joke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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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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Japanese God, |
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Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes |
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For all we know and all we care they might as well be |
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MartiansThey say gold paint on the palace gates |
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Comes from the teeth of pensioners |
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They're so tired of shooting protest singers |
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That they hardly mention us |
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While fountains fill with second-hand perfume |
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And sodden trading stamps |
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They'll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day |
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What do we care if the world is a joke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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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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We braved the cold |
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November air and the undertaker's curses |
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Saying, "Take me to the Folies BergereAnd please don't spare the hearses" |
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For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse |
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How you loved him 'til you hated him |
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And made him cry for mercy |
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He said, "Don't ever mention my name thereOr talk of all the nights you criedWe've always been like worlds apartNow you're seeing two nightmares collide" |
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What do we care if the world is a joke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke(Tokyo storm warning) |
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We're only living this instant |
