I knew the song from Clive Gregson's version and didn't know until I saw this thread yesterday that it is by Keith Hancock. It's why I wrote "this is what Clive sings": it may not be what Keith wrote or subsequently recorded. And it's live, so that might have caused mistakes. Clive is a Mancunian, which I thought might account for what sounds like 'cursed' instead of 'coursed'.

The version Mr Red found had 'cursed' - maybe that's right. Those lyrics were, I suspect, computer generated from youtube: I suppose they needed lyrics to hang the chords on. One thing the computer got right, and I got wrong, is that the last bit of each chorus has when you're chasing a dragon not the dragon. (Did Keith not want the phrase 'chasing the dragon' to appear anywhere is the song? It would have been the obvious title.)

It's a more complex song than I thought when I started correcting the chirdu version. I hadn't realised the first line of chorus varied to match the verse. But I've always thought "Don't try to deceive it, you'd better believe it" could be improved.