Jimmy Barnes - Khe Sahn Lyrics
I left my heart to the sappers round khe sahnAnd I sold my soul with my cigarettes to the black market manI've had the vietnam cold turkeyfrom the ocean to the silver cityAnd it's only other vets can understandAbout the long forgotten dock side guaranteeHow there were no v-day heros in 1973And how we sailed into sydney harbour I saw an old friend but I couldn't kiss herWe were lined and I was home to the lucky landWe were like so many more from that time onTheir lives were all so empty 'till they found their chosen oneAnd their legs were often open but their minds were always closedAnd their hearts were held in fast surburban chains.The legal pads were yellow hours long pay packet leanAnd the telex-writers clattered where the gun ships once had beenAnd carparks made me jumpy, but I never stopped the dream for the growing need of speed and novacaine.So I worked across the country from end to endTrying to find a place to settle down where my mixed up life could endHeld a job on an oil rig, flying choppers when I couldBut the night life nearly drove me round the bend.And I travelled round the world from year to yearEach one found me aimless one more year the worst for wareAnd I've been back to south east asiaYou know the answer sure ain't thereBut I'm drifting north to check things out againWell the last plane out of sydney's almost goneIn 7 flying hours we'll be landing in Hong KongAnd there ain't nothing like the kisses from a jaded chinese princessI'm gonna hit some Hong Kong matress all night longWell the last plane out of sydney's almost goneWell the last plane out of sydney's almost goneAnd it's really got me worriedI'm going nowhere and I'm in a hurryYou know the last plane out of sydney's almost goneWell the last plane out of sydney's almost gone oh yeahWell the last plane out of sydney's almost gone woahhhhhhhAnd it's really got me worriedI'm going nowhere and I'm in a hurryYou know the last plane out of sydney's almost gone.
