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Cold Chisel
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I left my heart to the sappers 'round Khe Sahn
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And I sold my soul with my cigarettes, to a black market man
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I've had to Vietnam cold turkey, from the ocean to the silver city
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And it's only other vets could understa-and
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'Bout the long forgotten dockside guarantees
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How there were no V-day heroes in nineteen seventy-three
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How we sailed into Sydney Harbour, I saw an old friend but I couldn't kiss her
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And she was lined, and I was home to the lucky land
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She was like so many more from that time on
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Their lives were all so empty, until they'd found there chosen one
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And their legs were often open 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 paypackets lean
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And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been
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The carparks made me jumpy and I never stopped the dreams
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Or the growing need for speed and novacaine
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So I worked across the country from end to end
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I tried to find a place to settle down, where my mixed up life could mend
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I held a job on an oil-rig, a-flyin' 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-ear-ear
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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, you know the answer sure ain't there
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But I'm driftin' north to check things out agai-ai-ain
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Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost go-one
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And only seven flyin' hours, till I'll be landin' in Hong Kong
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And there ain't nothin' like the kisses from a jaded Chinese princess
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I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night lo-ong
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Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone-aca
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