Shake the West Awake
Shake the West Awake

Osaka see you, see you go
I’m just a slave for Tokyo
Ahh

Mr Mitsubishi, see you go
Reach for the man in Ohio
Ahh, Shake the West Awake

Transistor people, see you go
Planned obsolescence from Tokyo
Ahh, Shake the West Awake
Ahh, Shake the West Awake

Take a plastic toy (sell it by the billion)
Take a radio (undercut and kill)
Pay for cars and ships (invest, invest and grow)
Maybe the East can Shake the West Awake

Say Sayonara, see you go
Goodbye cherry blossom, hi techno
Ahh, Shake the West Awake
Ahh, Shake the West Awake

Take a stereo (sell it by the billion)
Pay for microchips (invest, invest and grow)
Maybe the East can shake the West can shake
the East can Shake the West Awake

Shake the West Awake
(sell it by the billion)
Shake the West Awake
(undercut and kill ’em)
Shake the West Awake
Shake the West Awake

© 1981 MCPS / PRS