(This song can be found on the album "Squeezing Out Sparks" by Graham Parker
and the Rumour. Some of the best lyrics ever written!)
DISCOVERING JAPAN by Graham Parker
Intro: /Bm /D /A /A /3x lead gtr riff; D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x43121@1">C# DE, (xx0232@1) D (xx0232@1)name="chord_x43121@1">C# A (x02220@1)name="chord_022100@1">E 3x
D (xx0232@1) GHer (320003@1)heart is nearly breaking, the earth is nearly quaking.
D (xx0232@1) AThe (x02220@1)Tokyo taxi's braking, it's screaming to a halt.
G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) GThere's (320003@1)nothing to hold on to, when gravity betrays you,
A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) BmAnd (x24432@1)ev'ry kiss enslaves you.....
D (xx0232@1) GShe (320003@1)knows how hard her heart grows, under the nuclear shadows,
D (xx0232@1) AShe (x02220@1)can't escape the feeling, repealing in her head.
G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) GWhen (320003@1)after all the urges, some kind of truth emerges,
A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)AWe (x02220@1)felt the deadly surges, Discovering Japan, Discovering Japan.
(B F# G F#, B F# G F#, B B)
D (xx0232@1) GThe (320003@1)G.I.'s only use her, they always ram right through her,
D (xx0232@1) AGiving (x02220@1)an eastern promise, that they could never keep.
G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) GSee-ing (320003@1)the million miles, between their jokes and smiles,
A (x02220@1) D (xx0232@1) BmShe (x24432@1)heard their hard denials.......
Bm (x24432@1) A (x02220@1) As the tears drop sideways down her face, face,
Bm (x24432@1) A (x02220@1) I wake up taling in the tongue of a diff'rent race, race,
Bm (x24432@1) G (320003@1) And as the flight touches down, my watch says Eight-O-Two,
A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) But that's me at night to you, me at night to you,
A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) A (x02220@1)
Me at night to you.......................
D (xx0232@1) GI (320003@1)dream in long collisions, in jet-lagged pana-visions,
D (xx0232@1) AI (x02220@1)shouted "Sayonara", It didn't mean good-bye.
G (320003@1) A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) GBut (320003@1)lovers turn to poses, show up in filmed exposures,
A (x02220@1) Bm (x24432@1) A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1) A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1) AJust (x02220@1)like in travel brochures, Discovering Japan, Discovering Japan,
G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1) Discovering Japan, Discovering Japan,
G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1) G (320003@1)D (xx0232@1)A (x02220@1) Discovering Japan, Discovering Japan.
(B F# (244322@1)name="chord_320003@1">G F#, B (x2444x@1)name="chord_244322@1">F# G (320003@1)name="chord_244322@1">F# BB) (x2444x@1)