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