Memphis

Artist：joe jackson

Songs Title：memphis

Memphis - where the hell is memphis?

I got to get away, study my geography

Im just a shadow of the boy I used to be

I used to see the light, now its all a mystery

I used to feel the beat, now I feel a million miles from...

Memphis - where the hell is memphis?

I used dirty words never too excessively

But saying rock&roll never seemed so bad to me

I dare said it in hip and happy company

I was in and out in a second on my way to...

Memphis - where the hell is memphis?

Memphis - where the hell is memphis?

I had a one-way ticket and a little radio

I turned it on, heard the sound from twenty years ago

Somebody smiled and said, thats the only way to go

He died at twenty-one, now nobodys innocent in...

Memphis - where the hell is memphis?

Somebody turned around, said, I got to disagree

He wrote that sort of turn people out to anarchy

He made them think about marlon brando on tv

I guess they still went down against anything they got in...

Memphis - where the hell is memphis?

I met a wise old man, he had longer hair than me

He said, memphis is nothing like it used to be

A hundred dead guitarists lying in the cemetry

I felt a sudden chill, now Im not so sure about...

Memphis - where the hell is memphis?

Im on a lonesome train on a lonesome track

I think Ill jump right off, head for home, double back

And though Im better now I know that no-one knows the facts

Im gonna start again, forget I ever heard about...

Memphis - where the hell is

where the hell is

where the hell is

where the hell is memphis