I was crawling around in my head in the haze of a trance
Rico said, "I'ma turn you onto a sound, cool out your head
This is the sound from Camden town"

And then I heard it like a shot through my skull to my brain,
I felt my fingertips tingle and it started to rain,
When the walls of my bedroom were tremblin' around me,
This ramshackle voice over attack of a bluesbeat,
Tellin' me he's only looking for fun
This was the sound of the very last gang in town

As heard by my wild young heart, like directions on a cold dark night,
Sayin', 'Let it out You're doin' all right'
And I heard it in his chain gang soul
It wasn't just the same sad song
Saying, 'Let it out, you're doing all right'
And I'm doing all right, are you doin' all right?

And I carried these songs like a comfort wherever I'd go
They was there when my summers was high, there when she left me alone
Saying 'The soul is hard to find'

And I never got to tell him so I just wrote it down,
I wrapped a couple chords around it and I let it come out,
When the walls of my bedroom trembled around me,
To this ramshackle voice over attack of a bluesbeat,
And a girl, on the excitement gang
That was the sound of the very last gang in town

[Chorus]

That was the sound
I hear the sound
Do you hear the sound
I hear the sound
Of the very last gang in town