Bought for a Song Lyrics
Come on, now get your ass out of bed
You head what the man said
The crew is already gone
We were all kinda high, but man what were you on?
Tried to take a shuttle to Spain
They kicked me off of the plane
I guess I'll go to Japan
It all looks the same when you stump for the man
And down in the valley we crawl in the alley
Who knew the 101 was so long?
Before you get sold, you get bought for a song
Sake in aluminum cans*
It fell in the wrong hands
And now we're chewing the scene
Stumbling out of the Lexington Queen**
Walking through a German hotel
And not walking very well
I gotta get to the van
Excuse me, I'm weaving as fast as I can
And Tom won't admit he got lost in the city
He's saying that the directions are wrong
Before you get sold, you get bought for a song
And down in the valley we crawl in the alley
Who knew the 101 was so long?
Before you get sold, you get bought for a song
Song Annotations:
*Sake is actually any alcohol, the sake we know in America is called nihonshu and can be bought in small jars know as Ozeki One Cup. It?s horrible tasting stuff, much like fortified wine, it?s what all the homeless people drink.
** The Lexington Queen is a really bad nightclub in the Roppongi district of Tokyo, but for some reason all the famous people who come to town go there. This is the hangout for the teenaged western models who come to Japan to make it big. It is cramped, and has crappy music and no atmosphere. Furthermore, if I wanted to be ignored by a bunch of 15 year old girls from the US I would have stayed there teaching high school.
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