Once I was a very young man, and very young men are none too clever Sailed across to faraway lands And faraway towns of tin and terror Ran ‘em up in a strip called love Lost my mind in the streets of neon Now I'm coming on back Help me up move right, left foot forward Oh, we had a merry old time, but merry old times don't count for nothing Cocaine, song and women and wine Memories blur and they make me shudder Bed in the morning, eight, four, five Couple of days to get my head off Now I'm coming on back Help me up move right left foot forward To gho gho gho gho-gho gho gho gho I'm troubled by gho gho gho gho-gho gho gho ghosts in heaven Oooo-ooo-oooooo-oooo Far below the shiniest stars But shiniest stars won't shine for ever Take your soul and you can go far If you don't fall from grace of favor Golden weights are those who star You can take now and I'll take never Now I'm coming on back Help me up move right left foot forward To gho gho gho gho-gho gho gho gho I'm troubled by gho gho gho gho-gho gho gho ghosts in heaven Gho gho gho gho-gho gho gho gho I'm troubled by gho gho gho gho-gho gho gho ghosts in heaven Oooo oooh oooooo oo Oooo oooh ooooo Soon I'll be a very old man, and very old men they dream of summers Spent with falls in faraway clans While hometown crowd sing hymns of courage Ran ‘em up in a striṗ called love Lost my mind in the streets of neon Now I'm coming on home Help me up move right left foot forward