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 jo
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