Christine and sharon are sure
You can deadbolt the doors
But the outside gets in

At the edges of the windows and floors

And ways of wasting the day

Get pristine and passe
All the tremors before california falls away


But jimmy's world is a big thankless job
And she goes to bed loaded with phobias that she's been robbed
And although all other boys are upstaged

He's a ball lightning charge but no way to stay warm through the ice age

And jimmy's home life's resigned

To be fallen behind
Ultraviolet head-shop ideas that seemed good at the time
And every vice of the age

Is indulged and engaged
A miami exposure bust looking for a stage


And all too often the thrill is the shock
You can argue forever just where the good part starts and stops
But in the middle it swings and it rocks

They can buy their own pool and survive all the drops off the deep end

Jimmy's on drugs again

Day-glo sportswear, shoulders are lookin' tan
Jimmy's on drugs again
Hated us yesterday

Now he's our biggest fan
Thinks he's a stranger now
Joined the elite

But he still comes around
Still comes around on the downbeat
All right


And like their ancestors did
The adults fight the kids

And containers fight off the excitement near the cracks in the lids

Jimmy makes a big deal of the deep things he feels

Imagine his shock
When he learns it isn't real


Christine and sharon live everywhere now
You can't lock up your sons 'cause they'll find them somehow
They got their work cut out saving his soul

He's the tall-pouring type and no one ever told him to say 'when'

Jimmy's on drugs again

Day-glo sportswear, shoulders are lookin' tan
Jimmy's on drugs again
Hated us yesterday

Now he's our biggest fan
Thinks he's a stranger now
Joined the elite

But he still comes around
Still comes around on the downbeat
Down down


Jimmy's on drugs again
Day-glo sportswear, shoulders are lookin' tan

Jimmy's on drugs again
Hated us yesterday
Now he's our biggest fan

Thinks he's a stranger now
Joined the elite
But he still comes around

Still comes around on the downbeat
Downbeat
Down down down down