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Outside Tokyo Lyrics
Somewhere outside Tokyo
Invented time
Someone in a factory
Invented time
If people wanted proof to carry on
They'd like to buy one.
Fifty million watches
With a strap to sell!
Fifty million watches
With a strap to sell!
If people wanted proof to carry on
They'd like to buy one.
If they should ever sell out
That would be the end of time.
Invented time
Someone in a factory
Invented time
If people wanted proof to carry on
They'd like to buy one.
With a strap to sell!
Fifty million watches
With a strap to sell!
If people wanted proof to carry on
They'd like to buy one.
That would be the end of time.
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This points to the loss of time, when u become a man, and a brougish Yowling man, watches represent reliance and conformity to what? time? Your fathers war enemy. Just look around you know what time is. Got a date? just ask
In the late seventies digital watches became available. Numbers on wrists counting, tick tick, as if they were a representation of time itself rather than a little plastic machine. Time is abstract, relative and arguably not real, a little Japanese watch - they were technology kings at the time - doesn't keep time, and if they should ever sell out of them time would continue regardless.