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Mountain Goats lyrics : "The Young Thousands"

Boats ease into the harbor bearing real suspicious cargo
And the sunlight on the water
Sets a switch off in your brain

The things that you've got coming will consume you
There's someone waiting out there in an alley with a chain


The ghosts that haunt your building are prepared to take on substance
And the dull pain that you live with isn't getting any duller
There's a closet full of almost-pristine videotape

Documenting sordid little scenes in living color

Here they come

The young thousands
Here they come
The young thousands


You drive east from the ocean with both hands tied on the wheel
And you go past Garden Grove

As the pleasure index rises
The things that you've got coming will do things that you're afraid to
There is someone waiting out there with a mouthful of surprises


The ghosts that haunt your building have been learning how to breathe
They scan the hallways nightly vainly searching for a sign

There must be diamonds somewhere in a place that stinks this bad
There are brighter things than diamonds coming down the line


Here they come
The young thousands
Here they come

The young thousands

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