RELEASE DATE:
August 15, 1978
RECORD LABEL:
RCA Records
ALBUM PERFORMERS

Tokyo Tapes

1. All Night Long LYRICS
Can't get enough of the girl that I love
She's hot like the fire which burns on the sun.
She turns me on and my mind's goin' round
Hot lovin' woman is back in town

Well just to make me feel alright
All night long, oh yeah
But just to make me feel alright
All night long

Can't get enough of the girl that I love
She's hot like the fire which burns on the sun.
She turns me on and my mind's goin' round
Hot lovin' woman is back in town

Oh yeah
Well just to make me feel alright
All night long, oh yeah
But just to make me feel alright
All night long
03:44
2. Pictured Life LYRICS
Ooh! Dark meditation,
Your second sight can show my light
In a crystal ball.
Sweet are the days, intoxication
Crow-black the nights caging my mind
Behind the wall.

Into the rock through walls of red dreams
Into the rock to find the cream
Into the rock through walls of red dreams
Pictured life from yesterday.

Ooh! Dark meditation,
Deep down inside a stream of light
Begins to flow.
Sweet are the days, intoxication
Crow-black the nights caging my mind
Behind the wall.

Into the rock through walls of red dreams
Into the rock to find the cream
Into the rock through walls of red dreams
Pictured life from yesterday.

Pictured life, pictured life
Pictured life from yesterday ...
03:12
3. Backstage Queen LYRICS
Hey little Donna, sweet little Donna, I know
You wanted my love and I gave it to you
Hey little Donna, sweet little Donna, you know
Goodbye is hello, 'cos I'm on the road

Take it easy, don't get me wrong
Just keep me in your dreams
Take it easy, life goes on
My little backstage queen

Hey little Donna, sweet little Donna, so good
My feeling with you was all very true
Hey little Donna, sweet little Donna, you know
Goodbye is hello, 'cos I'm on the road

Take it easy, don't get me wrong
Just keep me in your dreams
Take it easy, life goes on
My little backstage queen

Hey, little Donna
Sweet little Donna
Goodbye Donna

03:44
4. Polar Nights LYRICS
Down, down ...
That's bringing me down
The stars in the sky
Seem to fall to the ground.
Time, time ...
I'm chasing the time
The stars in the sky
Seem to be turning round.
Is that the wind in your eyes
That is soothing my mind?
Is that the night of your eyes
That is soothing my mind?

Round, round ...
My mind's whirling round
The moons in the sky
Seem to burn on the ground.
Gone, gone ...
My mightmares are gone
The moons in the sky
Seemed to eat up the sun.
Is that the wind in your eyes
That is soothing my mind?
Is that the night in your eyes
That is soothing my mind?
Back from polar nights ...

I was down ...
I was out ...
The nights at the pole've been
So cold without you!
I was down ...
I was out ...
The pole-star was bringing me
Back home to you.
Is that the wind in your eyes
That is soothing my mind?
Is that the night in your eyes
That is soothing my mind?
06:43
5. In Trance LYRICS
I wake up in the morning
and the sun begins to shine
the day did sneak up on the night
I see your face and I see myself
and I get a little taste of life
I try to stand it for a while

But I'm in a trance
Hey baby tell me can't you hear me calling
I'm in a trance
I take too much in the Saturday night
Hey... Hey
Hey baby tell me can't you hear me calling
I'm in a trance
I wanna try to stop this life

I feel so sad I'm feeling down
On the radio the music plays
I'm in love with her and I feel fine
I close my eyes
I think today is getting better with a sip of wine
and I can stand it for a while

When I'm in a trance
Hey baby tell me can't you hear me calling
I'm in a trance
I take too much in the Saturday night
Hey... Hey
Hey baby tell me can't you hear me calling
I'm in a trance
I wanna try to stop this life

I'm in a trance
Hey baby tell me can't you hear me caling
I'm in a trance
I take too much in the Saturday night
Hey...Hey
Hey baby tell me can't you hear me calling
I'm in a trance
I wanna try to stop this life
05:25
6. We'll Burn The Sky LYRICS
I'm in love with the sunshine
I'm in love with the falling rain
Everything seems to call your name
Yesterday you were leaving
Leaving life and all the pain
Everything wants you back again.

I've found myself through you
And there was love in my life
I felt always naturally high and my love had a home
But now my mind has started to roam
You're my life giving fire and you carried all my love
Through you I was so inspired
You're engraved deep in my heart

My dreams recall us being one
I've searched for you to be free
My force of life you have always been
I Feel blue since you've gone
Your breath of love surrounded me
When can I rejoin you to be free

Wait, can this be a dream
There is a voice in my head
It belongs to you, it say's
Don't cry, no need to be sad
There's a way to stay with you again
It's more than you ever had
And no death brings us apart
Our timeless love always grows
Because you are in my other heart

I know we've never been apart
Your love sets fire to my heart
We'll burn the sky
When it's time for me to die
We'll burn the sky...
08:07
7. Suspender Love LYRICS
Ah, you turn me on
I've been the biggest fan of yours
Ah, ah there's something more
So much more baby

Ah, I can't be cool
It's getting stronger every day
Well, yeah, pictures of you
I cut them out, baby

Give me the long faced girl on the magazine
Show me the white Rolls Royce in the rain
Give me the long faced girl on the magazine
Show me the white Rolls Royce in the rain

I can't get enough
Too hard a body drives me mad
Oh yeah it's like a drug
Suspender love, baby

Give me the long faced girl on the magazine
Show me the white Rolls Royce in the rain
Give me the long faced girl on the magazine
Show me the white Rolls Royce in the rain

Ah, ah, oh yeah
Ah, ha, ah, ha, ha
Oh baby yeah

Give me the long faced girl on the magazine
Show me the white Rolls Royce in the rain
Give me the long faced girl on the magazine
Show me the white Rolls Royce in the rain
03:28
8. In Search Of The Peace Of Mind LYRICS
When I'm alone I'm feeling blue
Dreaming a dream of a world that's lovely and true

Faintly the dream of a true and wonderful world
And no one will care as long as the world will turn

Faintly the dream of a true and wonderful world
And no one will care as long as the world will turn

And I know a place to find my peace of mind
And I know a place to find my peace of mind

And I try
And I try
And I try
And I try
03:02
9. Fly To The Rainbow LYRICS
Life is empty, can't remember anytime before,
On a plain lit cold December, see it evermore,
Gliding through this life, and another is a child,
and we're doing games, and losing things,
Always playing gigs.
Somewhere in the sky, where the moon the stars shine bright,
Where the sun is shining, in the night.
I am in disgrace, yet i see a smiling face,
and i hope you let me, share your place.
I don't live today.

Rain in the sky , make the world fly,
Into time, beg me your time.
Sun in the sky, make the world fly,
Into time, beg me your time.

Rain in the sky , make the world fly,
Into time, beg me your time.
Sun in the sky, make the world fly,
Into time, beg me your time.

Rain in the sky , make the world fly,
Into time, beg me your time.
Sun in the sky, make the world fly,
Into time, beg me your time.

Well, I lived in magic solitude
Of cloudy-looking mountains
And a lake made out of crystal raindrops ...
Roaming through Space tenthousand years ago
I've seen the giant city of Atlantis
Sinking to eternal waves of darkness ...

Somewhere in the blue distance
Are those long-forgotten trees of yore
A broken violin floating alone in December
Darkness everywhere and nothing more.

Symbol - strange Symbol - Melancholy
Painting torrid colors to a sky of green
Candle breathing one night only
Far away - in chillness - bleak - unseen ...

Drifting galley - ghostlike shadow,
Sails rigged to catch and kill the Time...
Echoes wandering down an endless meadow
To call the Thing ... Sublime !...
09:39
10. He's A Woman, She's A Man LYRICS
I saw it walking lonely down the street
Cool like a cat and like a crazy dream
I'm looking twice again and can't believe
It turned around and then it looked at me
I thought "oh, no" it really couldn't be
It was a man and was a woman too
He's a woman
She's a man

I think it really came from far away
I'm feeling hypnotised, I have to stay
It takes my hand and says come on let's go
We're going home there's nothing more to say
He starts to move she starts to play
I need a body, why not you?
He's a woman
She's a man
05:22
11. Speedy's Coming LYRICS
You look at a poster
You look at the wall
The wall in the room where you live
Where you live with your stars
Just listen to his records
Now hear what he says
For he says, "I love you little girl
Come to see me today"

Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart
Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart

You like Alice Cooper
You like Ringo Starr
You like David Bowie
And friends in the Royal Albert Hall
Stick up the pictures, movies, TV
And I'll bring you the show little girl
Come to see me today

Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart
Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart

You like Alice Cooper
You like Ringo Starr
You like David Bowie
And friends in the Royal Albert Hall
Stick up the pictures, movies, TV
And I'll bring you the show little girl
Come to see me today

Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart
Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart
Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart
Speedy's Coming
You live in his heart
03:40
12. Top Of The Bill LYRICS
You're a rock-n-roll star
You are out of the charts
Your blood is cold you're getting old
But your life is rock-n-roll

That crazy rock-n-roll band
Is spinning in your head (in your head)
Each and every way ya make the thoughts
Is about stars on the chart

Ohhh... and they are top of the bill

You're a rock-n-roll star
You've been the first one on the chart
You've had glory and fame
Rock-n-roll was your game

Ohhh... and you were top of the bill
06:45
13. Hound Dog LYRICS
You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Crying all the time
You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Crying all the time

You ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine

When they said you was high classed
It was just a lie
When they said you was high classed
It was just a lie

You ain't never caught a rabbit
And you ain't no friend of mine
01:14
14. Long Tall Sally LYRICS
Gonna tell aunt Mary 'bout uncle John
Sally has the beauty and we're havin' fun
Oh, baby, yeah, baby, ooh, baby
Havin' some fun tonight

Saw uncle John with bald headed Sally
Saw Mary comin' and he ducked back in the alley
Oh, baby, yeah, oh, baby, eh, ooh, baby
Havin' me some fun tonight

We're gonna have some fun tonight
Have some fun tonight, have some fun tonight
Have some fun tonight
We're gonna have some fun, havin' some fun tonight

Have some fun tonight, have some fun tonight
Have some fun tonight, have some fun tonight
Have some fun, have some fun tonight
Have some fun tonight, have some fun tonight

Everything will be alright
We're gonna have some fun
Who it is you've found tonight?


02:50
15. Steamrock Fever LYRICS
We'd like to introduce tonight the kings of a brand new style
They're hungry to play
We'd like to introduce tonight the new heavy steamrock style
Quite different and strange

Alright, how do you feel tonight
Get up to see and cry the name of the band
(steamrock band, steamrock band)
Steam right with hands and feet tonight
Get up to see and cry, and they will begin

Here they are

Steamrock fever, screaming rock believers
Steamrock fever in l.a.
Steamrock fever, screaming rock believers
Steamrock fever in l.a.

Alright, how do you feel tonight
Get up to see and cry the name of the band
(steamrock band, steamrock band)
Steam right with hands and feet tonight
Get up to see and cry, and they will begin

Here they are

Steamrock fever, screaming rock believers
Steamrock fever in l.a.
Steamrock fever, screaming rock believers
Steamrock fever in l.a.

Steamrock fever, screaming rock believers
Steamrock fever in l.a.
Steamrock fever, screaming rock believers
Steamrock fever in l.a.


03:41
16. Dark Lady LYRICS
Sitting alone in the doghouse
Thinking of you all the time
Sighing, crying
Sitting alone in the doghouse
Thinking of you all the time
Sighing, crying

Dark lady

Sitting alone by my window
Counting the stars of the night
Waiting, hating
Sitting alone by my window
Counting the stars of the night
Waiting, hating

Dark lady

Sitting and watching the sunrise
Darkness is filling my eyes
Sighing, crying
Sitting and watching the sunrise
Darkness is filling my eyes
Sighing, crying

Dark Lady
04:18
17. Kojō no Tsuki LYRICS
Haru koro no hana no en
Meguru sakazuki kagesashite
Chiyo no matsu ga e wakeideshi
Mukashi no hikari Ima izuko
Mukashi no hikari Ima izuko

Aki jinei no schimo no iro
Nakiyuku kari no kazu misete
Uuru tsurugi ni terisoishi
Mukashi no hikari ima izuko

Ima kojo no yowa no tsuki
Kawaranu hikari ta ga tame zo
Kaki ni nokoru wa tada kazura
Matsu ni uto wa tada arashi

Tenjokage wa kawaranedo
Eiko wa utsuru yo no sugata
Utsusan toteka ima mo nao
Ah! Kojo no yowa no tsuki
03:35
18. Robot Man LYRICS
Crave communication
See me this is my life in the crazy robot man reservation
Do you feel him, the cold vibration
Comes from everywhere, produce a crazy science fiction creation

And I say oooh, oooh
I'm a robot man
And I say oooh, oooh
I'm a loser
I say oooh, oooh
I'm a robot man
Well, that's my mind
That's my life
That's my soul

Babe, it's a magic station
Where we live what we do with our magic from my generation
I say babe, it's not a vision
It's reality, this is a robot scene what we live in.

And I say oooh, oooh
I'm a robot man
And I say oooh, oooh
I'm a loser
I say oooh, oooh
I'm a robot man
That's my mind
That's my life
That's my soul

And I say oooh, oooh
I'm a robot man
And I say oooh, oooh
I'm a loser

I say oooh, oooh
I'm a robot man
And I say oooh, oooh
I'm a loser
05:47

ALBUM DETAILS

Tokyo Tapes is the first live album by the Scorpions and their final album released by RCA Records. Tokyo Tapes includes songs from all Scorpions' albums released before 1978, which were recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza (Tokyo's Nakano Ward, Japan) on April 24 and 27, during the band's Japanese tour in 1978. These shows were guitarist Uli Jon Roth's last performances with the band, who had announced his departure after the release of the studio album Taken by Force.