[Verse 1]
Picture yourself
Set up for good in a whole other life
Ooh, in the mystery zone
Make us a house
Some far-away town
Where nobody will know us well
Where your dad's not around
And all the trouble
You look for all your life
You will find it for sure
In the mystery zone

[Chorus 1]
Times that we met
Before we met
In the myster—
Times that we met
We'll go there
To the mystery zone
Ah, the mystery zone

[Verse 2]
There goes the rider
At gates of dawn
He takes no prisoners at all
He'll be there on his own
What gets him gone
Off down that road
Is something he don't understand
Ooh, the mystery zone
Maybe all he wants
Maybe all he needs
Is to know that the sun don't set
On the mystery zone
[Chorus 2]
How can it feel so familiar
When you never been there?
How can it seem so unreachable?
You never tried to find
Never tried to find the mystery zone
Ooh!
Mystery zone
All right!

[Verse 3]
All of the people
You used to run into
But never do now
They took off for the mystery zone
And when you know love
When you find it for real
It contains the emotion-sense of
Everyone ready
Your cover was blown
You weren't there, but you were
Ooh, in the mystery zone
You weren't there, but you were
You weren't there, but you were

[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 4]
Opening windows
Doors never close
It's the fresh-air fiend
Mmm, it's the information troll
We'll pack a bag
Sendin' it off
Just some things that never fit right
To the m—
And we'll send it ahead as a test so we'll know
Call it up when it gets there
What's it like in the mystery zone?

[Chorus 3]
The times that we met
Before we met
We'll go back there
Oh, times that we met before
We'll go back
We'll go back there
The mystery zone
Ooh!
To the mystery zone
The mystery zone
Oh the mys—