Bruce Cockburn Tokyo Lyrics

Tokyo Lyrics

They're getting prepared to haul a 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...