I saw a young man by a telephone
He was sitting alone in the rain
I said, ";Hey, young man what you doing here?";
He said, ";Sir, I'm going insane";
See I love an American beauty
But nobody here understands
So he looked to the sky with resentment in his eyes
And said, ";Lord, why am I in Japan?";
Lord why am I in Japan?
He told me a story about yesterday
How he walked in the search of a friend
But nobody came to his rescue
So he came to his bitter end
He pulled me close and said
";They all stopped and stared
As I walked down the street alone
And nobody knew my name
Nobody knew my name";
I said, ";Young man I know where you're going
And young man I know where you've been
But I've been in this land for a lifetime, it seems,
And I'm never to come back again