Khe Sanh lyrics

Artist  : Chisel Cold 
Song : Khe Sanh



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I left my heart to the sappers round Khe
Sanh
And I sold my soul with my cigarettes to
the blackmarket 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
heroes in 1973
And how we sailed into Sydney
Harbour
Saw an old friend but couldn't kiss
her
She was lined, and I was home to the lucky
land

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

So I worked across
the country from end to end
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 nightlife nearly
drove me round the bend

And I've travelled
round the world from year to year
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

Well the last plane out of
Sydney's almost gone
Only seven flying hours,
and I'll be landing in Hong Kong
And there
ain't nothing like the kisses
From a jaded
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 goin' nowhere and I'm
in a hurry
You know the last plane out of
Sydney's almost gone

Well the last plane
out of Sydney's almost gone (yeah, yeah)
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
You know the
last plane out of Sydney's almost gone