Manic Street Preachers Songs - (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline Lyrics

Manic Street Preachers - (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

Manic Street Preachers - (I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rewind The Film
Released: 2013

(I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline Lyrics

Lost on my own in the blazing sun
Down through the streets of Tokyo
Feeling like an alien is so much fun
This place somehow feels like a second home

I dream of the Tokyo skyline
I miss the emptiness and the silence
I long for the non-communication
Everything is happily lost in translation

I miss the Tokyo skyline
I miss the smog and the sunshine
Every night I sit and remember
This love I feel for a modern wonder

I dream of the Tokyo skyline
I miss the emptiness and the silence
I long for the non-communication
Everything is happily lost in translation

Lost on my own in the blazing sun
Down through the streets of Tokyo
Feeling like an alien is so much fun
This place somehow feels like a second home

I miss the Tokyo skyline
I miss the smog and the sunshine
Every night I sit and remember
This love I feel for a modern wonder

Writer/s: JAMES BRADFIELD, NICHOLAS JONES, SEAN MOORE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

(I Miss The) Tokyo Skyline

Nicky Wire's lyrics for this song are about the band being completely seduced by Tokyo. He told The Quietus : "I think we all were when we first went there and we did the 'Motorcycle Emptiness' video, it's the first place we ever got a gold disc. I'll never forget, we turned up at the airport at six in the morning and there were hundreds of people, we all looked behind us because we thought The Black Crowes were there or something. We realised they were all waiting for us, and thought, 'Fu--ing hell!' It was such an indelible scar. It's the most alien culture I've ever been to, in a good way, and I've loved the feeling of safety. Whenever we go back there's a special bond."

Vocalist James Dean Bradfield described this track to NME as having a "fragility, but it's not mournful or dampened."

Here are three more songs that were inspired by the Japanese city:

"Tokyo Melody" by Helmut Zacharias.

"Elephant Song" by Enemy.

"Paris, Tokyo" by Lupe Fiasco.

Pedant's corner: Actually, Tokyo isn't officially a city. In 1943 Tokyo Metropolis was formed from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture and the city of Tokyo. Since then, Tokyo has been commonly referred to as a "metropolitan prefecture."