Jimmy Still Comes Around

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 upstages

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 seem 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

Ohhh, 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