[Chorus]
Memphis
So where the hell is Memphis?

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
Memphis
So where the hell is Memphis?

[Verse 2]
I use dirty words, never too excessively
But saying "rock 'n' roll" never seemed so bad to me
I once said it in hip and happy company
I was in and out in a second on my way to

[Chorus]
Memphis
So where the hell is Memphis?

[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
Memphis
Yeah, where the hell is Memphis?

[Verse 3]
I had a one-way ticket and a little radio
I turned it on, heard a song 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

[Chorus]
Memphis
So where the hell is Memphis?

[Verse 4]
Somebody turned around, said, I got to disagree
He wrote a song to turn people onto anarchy
He made me think about Marlon Brando on TV
I guess they still rebel against anything they got in

[Chorus]
Memphis
So where the hell is Memphis?

[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 5]
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 guitars lying in a cemet'ry
I felt a sudden chill, now I'm not so sure about

[Chorus]
Memphis
So where the hell is Memphis?

[Verse 6]
I'm on a lonesome train on a lonesome track
I guess I'll jump right off and head for home, double back
I know I'm better now, I know that no one knows the facts
I guess I'll start again, forget I ever heard about

[Chorus]
Memphis
So where the hell is
So where the hell is
So where the hell is
Where the hell is Memphis?