[Chorus]
This is for the lost boys
This is for the dead boys
Say this for the departed
I remember what you started
This is for the lost boys

[Verse 1]
I remember city streets in 1971
Believing that we didn't care
Laughing in the sun
And now we walk in shadowed days
So many of us gone
I get sick of thinking of you boys
Sick of waiting for the phone call
Telling me another brother's gone

[Chorus]
This is for the lost boys
This is for the sweet boys
When the smell of sweetheart death
Runs hot or heavy on the breath
This is for the lost boys

[Verse 2]
Some of us went down in cars
On coast roads, in the night
Some of us went down alone
Staring in the light
So many got the habit
And the sickness for our pains
There's three of us, still survive
Bitterly, without pride
We're dreaming of the lost boys in the rain
My boys in the rain
Dreams fall through my sleep like rain

[Chorus]
Ah well, this is for the lost boys
(This is for the lost boys)
Ah, this is for the dead boys
I'll say this for the departed
I remember what you started
This is for the lost boys
(This is for the lost boys)
This is for the dead boys
(This is for the lost boys)
Well, well
This is for the lost boys
(This is for the lost boys)
And this is for the lost boys