Bent metal in a narrow street
Where oil and purple water meet
A copper arrow points to nowhere fast
A lucky charm from some forgotten past
It clings to wires and a rusty grate
A heavy piece of accidental fate
The midnight drizzle makes the metal glow
While taxis hum and city currents flow
Oh copper vane in the electric blue
Turning circles with a distorted view
Spinning slow in the Tokyo glare
Tangled up in the midnight air
A stray cat watches from a cardboard box
The city clicks like a thousand heavy locks
The arrow shivers in a sudden breeze
While skyscrapers sway like frozen trees
Oh copper vane in the electric blue
Turning circles with a distorted view
Spinning slow in the Tokyo glare
Tangled up in the midnight air
One sharp snap and it could fall away
To sleep inside the concrete shade of grey
But it holds on to the buzzing line
Waiting for a different kind of sign
The flashing lights paint a striped design
A jagged edge on a crooked silver line
It doesn't know where the north wind blows
Just follows where the humid current goes
A camera lens captures one gold spark
A tiny beacon in the velvet dark
The shutter clicks and the moment stays
Lost inside a neon colored haze
Oh copper vane in the electric blue
Turning circles with a distorted view
Spinning slow in the Tokyo glare
Tangled up in the midnight air
Just a piece of copper in the rain
Spinning round, spinning round again.
