Memphis Lyrics - Mike's Murder - Joe Jackson

Memphis - Where the hell is Memphis? 

Memphis - Where the hell is Memphis? 

I got to get away, study my geography 

I'm just a shadow of the boy I used to be 

I used to see the light, now it's all a mystery 

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

Memphis - Where the hell is Memphis? 

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? 

Memphis, so 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, that's the only way to go 

He died at twenty-one, now nobody's innocent in... 

Memphis - Where the hell is Memphis? 

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? 

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 cemetery 

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

Memphis - Where the hell is Memphis? 

Memphis - Where the hell is Memphis? 

I'm on a lonesome train on a lonesome track 

I think I'll jump right off, head for home, double back 

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

I'm gonna start again, forget I ever heard about...