Tokyo Rose

Album: Idle Eyes (1985)
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  • Where are you? What are you waiting for?
    This is not a race
    Are you trying to spend my time, spend time

    You in the corner, come closer
    I can see your face
    I can see it in mine
    Oh I see it in mine

    You tell a story like Tokyo Rose
    I got the picture from the stains on your clothes
    Didn't they tell you 'bout the shape I'm in?
    In this condition of carnal sin

    Confuse me, try to talk
    Like those stains on the sidewalk
    It's what she said, gets in my head

    The sun's up, you wake up
    That beauty at the bus stop
    Turns my head, go back to bed

    You tell a story like Tokyo Rose
    I got the picture from the stains on your clothes
    Didn't they tell you 'bout the shape I'm in?
    In this condition of carnal sin

    We'll be alright, we'll be alright
    We'll be alright, we'll be alright
    I tried to warn you
    I tried to warn you
    We'll be alright, alright

    You tell a story like Tokyo Rose
    I got the picture from the stains on your clothes
    Didn't they tell you 'bout the shape I'm in?
    In this condition of carnal sin

    You tell a story like Tokyo Rose
    I got the picture from the stains on your clothes
    Didn't they tell you 'bout the shape I'm in?
    In this condition of carnal sin

    You tell a story
    You tell a story
    You tell a story Writer/s: DAVID BRUCE CAMPBELL
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 3

  • Paul Mytych from Garden City, Mi UsaFavorite song is Tokyo Rose. I might be going to Olympics in Tokyo with ex wife Rose. Isn't that mysterious? But it's true!!
  • Gord Guesford from Trail British Columbia Idle Eyes received a Juno Award for Most Promising band after the success of Tokyo Rose...Tad is from Warfield a part of Greater Trail community...The only person to ever receive Canada’s most prestigious award from our area...He should be celebrated for his accomplishments by our City...but because it was the Band that received the Juno and not him personally...they do not recognize him as a local success story
  • Angus from Ottawa, OnAccording to Wikipedia, Tokyo Rose only made it to #4 in Canada, although, perhaps that was a different chart (but how many charts are there?)
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