Khe Sahn

I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh

I sold my soul with my cigarette to the black market man

Had the Vietnam cold turkey

From the ocean to the silver city

And it's only other vet could understand

About the long-forgotten dockside guarantee

How there were no V-day heroes way back in 1973

And how we sailed into Sydney Harbor

I saw an old friend, but I couldn't kiss her

And she was there and I was home to the lucky land, hey

And she was like so many more from that time on

Their lives were all so empty until they found their chosen one

And their legs were often open, but their minds were always closed

And their hearts were held in fast suburban chain

And the legal pads were yellow, I was on pay packets lean

And the Telex writers clattered where the gun ships once had been

And carparks made me jump, I never stopped the dream

Oh, of the growing need for speed and novocaine

I worked across the country, from end to end

I tried to find a place to settle down, where my mixed-up life could end

I held a job on an oil rig, flyin' choppers when I could

Oh, but the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend

And I travelled round the world from year to year

And each one found me aimless, one more year, the worse for the wear

Well, I've been back to Southeast Asia

You know the answer sure ain't there

I'm driftin' north to check things out again

I said the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

In only seven flying hours, I'll be landing in Hong Kong

And there ain't nothin' like the kisses from a jade Chinese princess

I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long, yeah

I said the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone, oh yeah

The last plane out of Sydney's almost gone, oh

It really got me worried, I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry

Before the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone, come on

The last, the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone, oh yeah

The last plane out of Sydney's almost gone, well, oh

It really got me worried, I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry

You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone