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


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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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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


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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"


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