I left my heart to the

sappers 'round Khe Sanh

and my soul was sold

with my cigarettes

to the blackmarket man

I 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 heroes

in nineteen-seventy-three

How we sailed

into sydney harbour

I saw an old friend

but I couldn't kiss her

Well, she was lined

and I was home

to the lucky land

Well, she was like so many

more from that time on

their lives were all so empty

'til 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

hours long, paypackets lean

and the telex writers

clattered where the gunships

would once have been

But the car parks

make me jumpy

and I never

stopped the dreams

or the growin' need

for speed and novocain

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

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've travelled 'round

the world from year to year

and each one

found me aimless

one more year

the worse for wear

And I've been back

to south-east Asia

but the answer

sure ain't there

But I'm driftin' North

to check things out again

yes, I am!

And now the last plane

out of Sydney's almost gone

and only seven flyin' hours

and I'll be

landin' in Hong Kong

And there ain't nothin'

like the kisses

from a jaded

Chinese princess

I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong

mattress all night long

A-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 goin' nowhere

and I'm in a hurry

and though the last plane

out of Sydney's almost gone

Well, the last plane

out of Sydney's almost gone

you know the last plane

out of Sydney's almost gone

Gone...

it's 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