Lost Johnny

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

The truth is well concealed inside the details of the game

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

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

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

By sticking thumb tacks in her flesh and cancelling the dream

Can you find the Valium? Can you bring 'em soon?

Lost Johnny's out there, baying at the moon

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

And underneath the city, the alligators sing

Of how the fool, he cannot dance since someone cut the strings

Can you find the morphine? Try to be so brief

Lost Johnny's out there, lookin' for relief

Now Sammy 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

And here inside the waiting room, the radio still screams

And we're all shooting Tuinal to murder all your dreams

Can you find your credit card? For God's sake, make it quick

Lost Johnny's out there, tryin' to turn a trick