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 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 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 so where the hell is memphis 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 ll still rebel against anything they got in memphis so 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 guitars lying in a cemet ry i felt a sudden chill now i m not so sure about 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 memphis where the hell is memphis 