Khe Sanh

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I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh
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And my soul was sold with my cigarettes to the Black market man
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I've had the Vietnam cold turkey,
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from the ocean to the silver city
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And it's only other vets would understand


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About the long forgotten dockside guarantees
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How there were no V-day heroes in 1973
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How we sailed into Sydney harbour,
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Saw an old friend but couldn't kiss her
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She was lined, and I was home to the lucky land

[Verse 2]
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And she was like so many more from that time on
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Their lives were all so empty, till they found their chosen one
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And their legs were often open
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But their minds were always closed
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And their hearts were held in fast suburban chains

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And the legal pads were yellow, hours long, paypacket lean
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And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been
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But the car parks made me jumpy
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And I never stopped the dreams
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Or the growing need for speed and novacaine

[Verse 3]
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So I worked across the country end to end
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Tried to find a place to settle down, where my mixed up life could mend
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Held a job on an oil-rig
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Flying choppers when I could
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But the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend
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And I've travelled round the world from year to year
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And each one found me aimless, one more year the worse for wear
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And I've been back to South East Asia
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But the answer sure ain't there
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But I'm drifting north, to check things out again

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[Verse 4]
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You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
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Only seven flying hours, and I'll be landing in Hong Kong
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There ain't nothing like the kisses
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From a jaded Chinese princess
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I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night long

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Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
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Yeah the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone
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And it's really got me worried
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I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry
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You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone