Elvis Costello - Tokyo Storm Warning Chords

[Intro]
D7
 
 
[Verse 1]
D7                   Am          D7             Am
The sky fell over cheap Korean monster-movie scenery
D7                   Am              D7
And spilled into the mezzanine of the crushed capsule hotel
     G7
Between the Disney abattoir and the chemical refinery
    D7              Am          D7
I knew I was in trouble but I thought I was in hell
 
 
[Verse 2]
D7                      Am                D7               Am
So you look around the tiny room and you wonder where the hell you are
D7                     Am                  D7
While the K.K.K. convention are all stranded in the bar
      G7
They wear hoods and carry shotguns in the main streets of Montgomery
      D7                      Am                     D7
But they're helpless here as babies because they're only here on holiday
 
 
[Chorus]
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What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
We'll give it a big kiss
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We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#                      Bm       D
We're only living this instant
 
 
[Verse 3]
 D7                       Am                D7            Am
The black sand stuck beneath her feet in a warm Sorrento sunrise
  D7                   Am                 D7
A barefoot girl from Naples or was it a Barcelona hi-rise
        G7
Whistles out the tuneless theme song of a hundred cheap suggestions
          D7            Am               D7
And a million false seductions and all those eternal questions, well…
 
 
[Chorus]
 D
What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
We'll give it a big kiss
 D
We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#                      Bm       D
We're only living this instant
 
 
[Verse 4]
        D7              Am                    D7        Am
So they flew the Super Constellation all the way from Rimini
       D7              Am                    D7
And feasted them on fish and chips from a newspaper facsimile
      G7
Now dead Italian tourists bodies litter up the Broadway
      D7              Am                D7
Some people can't be told you know they have to learn the hard way
 
 
[Solo]
D7 Am   x4
 
 
[Verse 5]
         D7              Am                    D7        Am
Holidays are dirt-cheap in the Costa del Malvinas
        D7              Am                    D7
In the Hotel Argentina they can hardly tell between us
     D7                Am                  D7
For Teresa is a waitress though she's now known as Juanita
        D7              Am                    D7
In a tango bar in Stanley or in Puerto Margarita
           G7
She's the sweetest and the sauciest
  G7
The loveliest and naughtiest
      D7             Am            D7
She's Miss Buenos Aires in a world of lacy lingerie
 
 
[Chorus]
 D
What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
We'll give it a big kiss
 D
We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#                      Bm       D
We're only living this instant
 
 
[Verse 6]
 D7                   Am     D7              Am
Japanese God-Jesus robots telling teenage fortunes
 D7                   Am               D7
For all we know and all we care they might as well be Martians
  D7                Am             D7                    Am
They say gold paint on the palace gates comes from the teeth of pensioners
  D7                          Am               D7
They're so tired of shooting protest singers that they hardly mention us
      G7
While fountains fill with second-hand perfume
  G7
And sodden trading stamps
         D7
They'll hang the bullies and the louts that dampen down the day
 
 
[Chorus]
 D
What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
We'll give it a big kiss
 D
We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#                      Bm       D
We're only living this instant
 
 
[Verse 7]
   D7              Am                   D7             Am
We braved the cold November air and the undertaker's curses
        D7                       Am           D7
Singin' "Take me to the Folies Bergère and please don't spare the hearses"
       D7             Am           D7
For he always had a dream of that revolver in your purse
        D7                  Am              D7
How you loved him until you hated him and made him cry for mercy
         G7
He said "Don't ever mention my name there or talk of all the nights you cried
        D7                Am                D7
We've always been like worlds apart now you're seeing two nightmares collide"
 
 
[Chorus]
 D
What do we care if the world is a joke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
We'll give it a big kiss
 D
We'll give it a poke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
 D
Death wears a big hat 'cause he's a big bloke (Tokyo Storm Warning)
F#                      Bm       D
We're only living this instant
 
 
D7   Am (repeat through fade)
YEAH!