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The Loneliest City Of All Lyrics
You’re no longer my business, it’s all up to you
We'll have to find a soft heart in somebody new
When friends are calling me mad just for staying this long
There’s nothing I rather want than to prove that they’re wrong
Those pills you took didn’t help you get no sleep
Your head is still at work but you’re numb from hands to feet
Why aren’t your teary eyes for anyone to be seen
I'm sorry I sound cold, I got soul of a new machine
Please don’t say
Everything that isn’t true
Every street with no name remind me of you
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
When in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
You only move in circles around the case
You keep on asking why I put you in this place, uh huh
And what you’re gonna do with new won time and wider space
You'll end up in your corner like a lion once out of it’s cage
Please don’t say
Everything that isn’t true
Every street with no name remind me of you
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
When in Tokyo
The loneliest city
Please don’t say
Everything that isn’t true
Every street with no name remind me of you
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
When in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
The loneliest city of all
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
For now that's all
From your man down in Tokyo
We'll have to find a soft heart in somebody new
When friends are calling me mad just for staying this long
There’s nothing I rather want than to prove that they’re wrong
Your head is still at work but you’re numb from hands to feet
Why aren’t your teary eyes for anyone to be seen
I'm sorry I sound cold, I got soul of a new machine
Everything that isn’t true
Every street with no name remind me of you
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
When in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
You keep on asking why I put you in this place, uh huh
And what you’re gonna do with new won time and wider space
You'll end up in your corner like a lion once out of it’s cage
Everything that isn’t true
Every street with no name remind me of you
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
When in Tokyo
The loneliest city
Everything that isn’t true
Every street with no name remind me of you
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
When in Tokyo
The loneliest city of all
The loneliest city of all
You’re the last I should call from a booth in Tokyo
For now that's all
From your man down in Tokyo
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So... it's about somebody stuck in a job in Tokyo, possibly a spy/detective/something similar ("man down in," "circles around the case," etc.), but also possibly an engineer of some sort. It's not clear to me (at least) whose voice we're hearing (maybe several?). "Soul of a new machine" is presumably a reference to the book of the same name, which is about work for the love of work and so on. Or perhaps it's just a Pink Floyd reference?
But really it's about, well, loneliness and existence and purpose. And Tokyo. Maybe. And it's kind of depressing but so beautiful and fascinating all at the same time!
SH "did" do a previous song called "my japanese boy"
My guess is that the song is really about a failing relationship. The protagonist doesn't "want" the relationship to end, but it seems unavoidable. Her lover keeps ducking the hard questions (moves in circles around the case), and instead attacks her for making him feel uncomfortable ([You] keep on asking why I put you in this place)
SH did release one previous song called "my japanese boy". Probably one of the band members had a crush, and one or more of them found Tokyo in particuar, (or the people in it) to be lonely and unavailable, despite its flashy surface.