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      And up there in the castle   They're trying to make us scream   By sticking thumb tacks in her flesh   And canceling the dream      Can you find the Valium?   Can you bring it 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 back yard      And underneath the city   The alligators sing   About 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      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      Then 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