Alan Prosser / Ian Telfer
Complete Music Ltd 1989
First released on: Ride, 1989
Jesus turns a three-cup trick for Johnny money going begging, it's a crime look at him sweat it in the streetlight can he pull it one more time? the world is crawling with the faithful wide-eyed and gamblers to the core Johnny gets burned, he lights another candle we do not do that any more when I was the patron saint of losers strange days came knocking at my door now there's better things than heaven we do not do that anymore turn another card, it's the ace of bottles the only star for a drowning man floating in a world of spirits ever since this pain began drink steady, call the boys out read your fortune on the bar-room floor the cards don't tell you about the blackouts we do not do that any more that was the year we got the fever all the world was running high glued by sweat and desperation we got unhygienic, you and I you went running to the doctor tell me why I feel so sore he said, it's just a taste for damage we do not do that any more
when I was the patron saint of losers strange days came knocking at my door now there's better things than heaven we do not do that anymore