I have this on Home & Away by Clive Gregson and Christine Collister, which is a live performance. This is what Clive sings:
CHASE THE DRAGON
(Clive Gregson & Christine Collister)
How many more young lives will be squandered as youth turns on to a dream?
How much longer will deaf ears be turned, refusing to hear their screams?
And how long must I sit and watch my friends die while society sits on the fence?
We have to step in to fight for our children, they need more than love they need sense.
We have to warn them, white powder will scorn them, they must understand they are under attack.
Don't try to deceive it, you'd better believe it, when you're chasing the dragon, the dragon fights back.
They offered it all, the uppers and downers, did you have the strength to refuse?
In boozers and discos from London to Frisco, some win, some break even, some lose.
And as your friend succumbs*, and his senses were numb, did you look hard to see what he lacked?
For in ten years time, when he's dead and buried, you'll find you've the time to look back.
And you could have warned him, white powder would scorn him, for you understood he was under attack.
Don't try to deceive it, you'd better believe it, when you're chasing the dragon, the dragon fights back.
Did you look in the sky for the elephant's eye? Did the warmth come, did it make you feel good?
Did newspaper taxis appear on your shore, as the poison coursed** into your blood?
Do you find any glamour in the nurses who clamour round your bed, like the snowman had said?
For your left arm is gone and your right soon to follow, do you wish you had died there instead?
And I should have warned you, white powder would scorn you, for I understood you were under attack.
Don't try to deceive it, you'd better believe it, when you're chasing the dragon, the dragon fights back.
And we have to warn them, white powder will scorn them, they must understand they are under attack.
Don't try to deceive it, you'd better believe it, when you're chasing the dragon, the dragon fights back.
* I think Clive sings 'As your friends succumb' but 'friend succumbs' fits the rest of the line.
** He does seem to sing 'cursed' but 'coursed' makes more sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MsAVBzlwgk