Paris, Tokyo Lyrics

[Intro]
I know, I know but I gotta get up outta here, you know?
I gotta go pay these bills, I got a show to do, you know?

One time, for your mind

[Chorus]
Let's go to sleep in Paris
Wake up in Tokyo
Have a dream in New Orleans
Fall in love in Chicago, man
Wherever I go she go


[Verse 1]
I love her, and I hate to leave her lonely
Ring-ring went the iPhone, it was my homie
He said, "Let's hit Japan, if we can make 'em jam
We can make a hundred grand, spend it in the south of France"
Nothing further; I jumped, grabbed my Goyard trunk
Got ready to walk it out like Unk in my John Lennon Chucks

That's when I heard murder
"You're killing me, you're filling me with sorrow
Sunrise, goodbyes, and missing you tomorrows"
I turn to see my dream, love supreme queen
Meanest thing on the scene cry
I drop my bags in a flash, that's faster
Than 180 on that dash, shirt to dry her tears
And wipe the rain from my dear like Dasher
You's the dame who's the username to all my passwords
The reason I get fly is Ibn Jasper
I even keep your picture in my passport
Love, love
[Chorus]
Let's go to sleep in Paris
Wake up in Tokyo
Have a dream in New Orleans
Fall in love in Chicago, man
Then we can land in the motherland
Camel-back across the desert sand

And take a train, to Rome, or home
Brazil, for real
Wherever I go she goes
Wherever I go she goes

[Verse 2]
So let's keep it real, all in together, "Free Chill"
Tell the stewardess to throw a movie on the reel
Heat up my kosher meal, exchange my dollar bills
Lean back in my first class seat and sleep
Don't wake me 'til I land
Where they barely understand what I speak
But they nod to my beats
I tell my fans who I am and they stand
And they clap, they applaud, they love me, my God
Otsukaresama deshita, or maybe au revoir
A spree on Saint-Honoré, then back to Charles de Gaulle
So I can get home and tell her everywhere that I been, and
Everything that I done, and
Tell her that she's the one, and, umm

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The sixth track on Lupe’s The Cool. Lupe explained the inspiration behind the song:

I love Paris, I love Tokyo… And what inspired me to write the song was that between ‘Food And Liquor’ and this album we travelled EVERYWHERE – multiple countries, multiple towns, multiple tours. So I just developed a knack and a love for touring, even if I didn’t want to do it! You know, despite the lyrical wear and tear it has on your body – particularly with the different climates – just by force I had to fall in love with it! And of course another side to it all is, when you travel, you leave people behind. So I actually wrote the song for my girl. Because I’d be gone so much we’d go for two months at a time without seeing each other. So it’s basically her song. Just to let her know that, wherever I go, she comes with me – even if it is just mentally or in spirit.

It was produced by Soundtrakk and samples the instrumental “San Juan Sunset” by Eumir Deodato.

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