The Last "Wrong Turn" video

1982 video for The Last's song "Wrong Turn."

Yes, the opening riff is the same as the Germs' "Lexicon Devil." This is not a rip-off, but a tribute, as this song is about the untimely deaths of John Lennon and the Germs' Darby Crash (the "on whose name was washed away by stars more visible")...

A driving force in the LA music scene since 1978, The Last are still active today. Visit their website at www.laexplosion.com

It's funny how it seems to go
A trilogy of infamy
The pattern shrieks to those who see

And for the one whose name was washed away
By stars more visible than he
For that misfortune now I weep

For all the ones they left behind
There are no hands, there are no minds

Dead presidents, dead regiments return
To take their rightful place beside
The ones we choose to deify

From pools of water, pools of blood they come
And will not be denied the right
To ask him why they had to fight

Someone took a wrong turn
Someone in the back seat
Someone had a radio
Someone's on the rise now

Come winds, come rain, come seasons, run your course
Erase the anguish of this day
Erase the things the papers say

And for the ones who lost their god today
To stars more prominent than they
In their misfortune they will say

Someone had a letter
Someone had a razor
Someone had a nightmare
Someone took a wrong turn

Category:

Music

Tags:

• rock
• alternative
• joe
• nolte
• vitus
• matare
• los
• angeles
• backlash
• warfrat
• sst

[fun4eileen]

I love The Last! Thanks for posting this clip.

[PKPurvis]

Awesome! Thank you very much for posting.

[dirtbag1713]

such a great great great underrated band. they deserved to get way bigger.

[BaronVonShrapnel]

My buddy Craig had a brother named Jeffrey who was a good friend of Jack Reynolds. This is the first place I've seen THIS song though. Good tune!