Lyrics: Patrick Garrett McKenzie/Oliver Jack Wride
Music: Patrick Garrett McKenzie/Oliver Jack Wride/Ryan Kelly McKenzie/James John Tiberio/John Waugh
It's the light
At the end of a neon railway
It's the cross
In Shibuya take it your way
Deep in the clouds
There's a serpent
A toll we'll all have to pay
Stands a man on a ledge
Who begs to earn a set of new ways
It's hardly sutto
Island in the dragon's shadow
Beyond the breaking wave there's an after glow
Where the ashes fall
A geisha in the grip of tiger paws
Where the absinthe flows in the alley's thrall
There's a place for a dying hero
In Tokyo
Living on a dream that I can't let go
Where the nights just keep on giving
In the place I hang my soul
In Tokyo
In the Tokyo
(There ain't no way out)
Sever the ties
Who I once was will no longer be
In crowded streets
Beyond the sacred samurai gates
A calling card
Your name in paint
On a matte white slate
Down a one way road
A cult, a code
That you'll never escape
It's hardly sutto
Island in the dragon's shadow
Beyond the breaking wave there's an after glow
Where the ashes fall
A geisha in the grip of tiger paws
Where the absinthe flows in the alley's thrall
There's a place for a dying hero
In Tokyo
Living on a dream that I can't let go
Where the nights just keep on giving
In the place I hang my soul
A double life, secret love
Everything you'd ever want
You can sign yourself a new name
In the outline of a new frame
You can start again
Where the ashes fall
A geisha in the grip of tiger paws
Where the absinthe flows in the alley's thrall
There's a place for a dying hero
In Tokyo
Living on a dream that I can't let go
Yea yeah
Where the nights just keep on giving
In the place I hang my soul
In Tokyo
In Tokyo
In Tokyo