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 pa**e 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 d** again Day-Glo sportswear, shoulders are lookin' tan Jimmy's on d** 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 d** again Day-Glo sportswear, shoulders are lookin' tan Jimmy's on d** 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 d** again Day-Glo sportswear, shoulders are lookin' tan Jimmy's on d** 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