CocoRosie – Japan

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Life is like a rollercoaster
It does flips and throws you over
Board your ship that's going nowhere
If you stop, you'll end up somewhere

Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody, just hold hands

Everybody wants to go to californ-I-a
To live their life on a sunny day
Dreaming of someone else's wife and kids (kids and wife)
But they'll be bringing you the same old shit (strife)

Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody, just hold hands

Everybody wants to go to Jamaica
Queens in drag will surely fake you
Take you home, and then they'll rape you
But you like it, so say 'thank you'

Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody, just hold hands

Now, everybody wants to go to Iraq
But once they go, they don't come back
Bringing peanut butter jelly and other snacks
We might have our freedom, but we're still on crack.

Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody wants to go to Japan
Everybody, just hold hands

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Lyrics submitted by kimo

Track duration: 05:02

"Japan" as written by Kenny/jackson Gorelick

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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  • 0
    General Comment:so I listened to Sierra's part a bit more and I heard "Jesus is coming"
    but that's all.
    Flag othatzsokewlon June 21, 2009   Link
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  • 0
    General Comment:"everybody wants to go to jamaica
    queens in drag will surely fake you
    take you home, and then they'll rape you
    but you like it, so say 'thank you'"

    I sort of think that this part relates a bit of how if you go to jamaica on a vacation and you are white you generally have to stay near the resorts, and its almost like we've "raped" their culture to the point where we enjoy going there....something sort of like that.
    Flag deadbumblebleeon June 16, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:What does Sierra sing in the middle?
    Flag othatzsokewlon May 21, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Awesome song. I really want them to come to Australia!
    Flag Hundredson February 24, 2009   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:lesbian friend recently told me that it's illegal to be gay in jamaica... i immediately thought of this song... that verse definitely makes a lot more sense to me now. theoretically every person in jamaica is straight, so any homosexual relationships would for legal reasons be classified as 'rape' (but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, aka 'say thank you')
    Flag rin_a_rooon October 11, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Everybody wants to go somewhere else, but people suck everywhere, so start to go different places by "just holding hands," breaking down barriers, becoming less sucky. Look to your self to really change; travel is superficial, and will not change the most basic things.
    Flag nanobodyon July 04, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:Brilliant...
    Flag Ocean Soulon April 23, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This song and Ween's "The Argus" remind me of each other, for reasons unknown to me.
    Flag DominElon March 30, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:lol at cocobeware, i could imagine that...
    Flag dustybreezeon March 21, 2008   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:listen to this song at disneyland.
    ...disturbing.
    Flag cocobewareon October 24, 2007   Link

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