Elvis Costello - Tokyo Storm Warning Chords

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_ [C] _ But [E] _ [C] _ _
[D] a sky fell [C] over [F#m] Jeepery and [C] Monsalmooder City
[Am] And spilled [C] into the [A] mezzanine of Crush [C] Cab Show [G] Hotel
Between the [Gm] Disney Aventoir and the Chemical _ [Em]
[A] Refinery
I knew [C] I was in trouble, [F#] but I thought I [C] _
[Am] wasn't
So _ _ _ _ _ you look around the tiny [D] room and you wonder [Am] where the hell you [D] are
Why [C] KKK Convention [D] are all stranded [C] in the [F#] bar
[Gm] They were hoods in [Em] Karraschatka's [Gm] and the main streets of [Em] Montgomery
[Am] But they're helpless, serious babies, cause they're nowhere on holiday
[D] Why do we care [G] [D] if love is just a warning
We'll [G] give it a big kiss, we'll give it a blow
[D] Death was a big [G] let, [D] he was a beautiful [F#] one
We're only [Bm] living this [Am] instant _ _
But a glass hand stepped beneath her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise
A barefoot girl from Naples, a wife in a Barcelona [C] high ride
[G] Whistles [Gm] at the cheerless theme song of a hundred cheap suggestions
[Am] And a million files of seduction and all those [C] eternal questions
[D] Well, why do we care if love is just a warning
We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a blow _
Death was a big [G] let, [D] he was a beautiful [F#] one
We're only [Bm] living this [Am] instant
So _ they flew [C] to super [D] constellation all [Am] the way from Remini
And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper [G] facsimile
Now dead [A#] Italian [G] tourist bodies, they interrupt the [Am] broadway
Some people can't be told you [D] know they've [Am] collided hard way
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[D] _ [C] Holidays are dirt cheap in the Caspitao Malvinas
In the Hotel Argentina, [D] where they can't hardly [C] tell between us
[D] But Teresa [C] is a waitress, [D] though she is now [C] known as Juanita
[D] Get entangled [Am] by the standard, [D] or be poisoned [C] by the reason
[Gm] She's the sweetest and the sauciest, the loveliest and [D] naughtiest
She's with [Am] Buenos Aires, [D] in a world of [C] lace and [D] lingerie
Why do we care if love is a joke
We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a blow
Death was a big let, he was a beautiful one
[F#m] We're only [B] living this [D] instant
[G] _ _ [C] _
[A] Japanese [C] got Jesus [D] robot, [C] Valentinix [D] Vontex
For all we [C] know and all we [D] care, they might as [C] well be Martians
[D] They say gold paint [C] on the palace [Am] gate, comes from the teeth of pensioners
They're so tired of sheep and crows they're [D] singing, that they [C] hardly mention [G] us
While mountains [A#] fill with [G] sick and handful, human solid dreaded stamps
They'll hang the [C] foolish and the [D] lost, they're hampering [C] down the day
[D] Why do we care if love is a joke
We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a blow _
Death was a big let, he was a beautiful one
[F#] We're only [Bm] living this instant
[Am] _ _ _
We prayed for cold November air, and the [C] undertaker's [E] stare
Says he can take you to the [C] fall of the [Am] chair, and please don't spare the horses
For he always [C] had a dreamer, [D] that red flower [C] in your purse
[A] How you loved him [C] till you hated [A] him, and made him [C] cry for mercy
[G] He said don't ever mention my name, I'll talk of [A#] all the [Am] nights you cried
We've always been like worlds apart, [D] now you're seeing [C] two nightmares [D] collide
Why do we care if love is a joke
We'll [G] give it a big kiss, [D] we'll give it a blow _
Death was a big let, he was a beautiful one
[F#] We're only [Bm] living this instant
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