[Verse 1]

You only get a single chance, the rules are very plain

The truth is well concealed inside the details of the game

You can see it coming, you can hear it from afar

It's pale and it flickers like a faded movie star

[Chorus 1]

And up there in the castle, they're trying to make us scream

By sticking thumbtacks in her flesh and cancelling the dream

Can you find the valium, can you bring it soon?

Lost Johnny's out there baying at the moon

[Verse 2]

The time has come for you to choose, you'd better get it right

Berlin girls with sharp white teeth are waiting in the night

But you oughta really get some, it surely can't be hard

There's always trouble waiting when you leave your own backyard

[Chorus 2]

And underneath the city, the alligators sing

Of how the puppets cannot dance since someone cut the strings

Run and get the morphine, for God's sake, make it brief

Lost Johnny's out there looking for relief

[Verse 3]

Now Simon looks so evil and you know, he really tries

But every time he makes a play, that vital number dies

And Sally buys her underwear from a store where no-one goes

She makes it big in photographs on the strength of what she shows

[Chorus 3]

And here inside the waiting room, the radio still screams

And we're all taking Tuenol to murder our young dreams

Run and fetch your credit card, try to make it quick

Lost Johnny's out there trying to turn a trick