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
No, I`m never to come back again
So I turned and I gave him my blessing
And I left him alone in the rain
But I had to just stop and laugh at myself
Still nobody knows my name
Nobody knows my name