I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sahn
And I sold my soul with my cigarettes
To the black market man
I've had the Vietnam cold turkey
From the ocean to the Silver City
And it's only other vets could understand.
About the long forgotten dockside guarantees
How there were no V-Day heros in 1973
And how we sailed into Sydney Harbour
I saw an old friend but I couldn't kiss her
She was lined and I was home to the lucky land.
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 would hardly open
But their minds were always closed
And their hearts were held in fast surburban chains.
And the legal pads were yellow, hours long
Pay packet lean, and the telex-writers clattered
Where the gun-ships once had been
And carparks made me jumpy and I never stopped the
dream for the growing need for speed and novacaine.
So I worked across the country from end to end
I tried to find a place to settle down
Where my mixed-up life could mend
Held a job on an oil rig, flying choppers when I could
But the night life 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 worst for wear
And I've been back to South East Asia
You know the answer sure ain't there
But I'm drifting north to check things out again....
As Sydney Airport is
surrounded on three
sides by densely-populated suburbs it
has an 11 pm to 6 am curfew on
all plane movements.
.
This means every day there's a
Last plane out of Sydney:.
.
sides by densely-populated suburbs it
has an 11 pm to 6 am curfew on
all plane movements.
.
This means every day there's a
Last plane out of Sydney:.
.
....Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
In seven flying hours and I'll be landing in Hong Kong
And there ain't nothing like the kisses
From a teenage Chinese princess
I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long.
Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
And it's really got me worried
I'm going nowhere and I'm in a hurry
You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone.