Bruce Cockburn - Tokyo lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - Tokyo lyrics]
Car out of the river
Noise and smoke and concrete seem
To be going on forever
Grinding gears and drivers getting
High on exhaust
I'm thinking about the water down
Below and what got lost
Pachinko jingle and space torpedo beams
Comic book violence and escaping steam
Grey suited business men pissing
Against the wall cut to crumbling guardrail
Slow motions car fall
Oh Tokyo I never can sleep in your arms
Mind keeps on ringing like a fire alarm
Me and all these other dice
Bouncing around in the cup
Did you have to show me that accident scene
Didn't I get enough shaking up?
Still I'm gonna miss you
Dragon of good fortune struggles
With trickster fox
Energy and patience and the power of the buck
Tonight I'm flying headlong to meet the
Dark red edge of dawn
I know somebody will be crying
And somebody will be gone
Oh Tokyo I never can sleep in your arms
Mind keeps on ringing like a fire alarm
Me and all these other dice
Bouncing around in the cup
Did you have to show me that accident scene
Didn't I get enough shaking up?
Still I'm gonna miss you