The Young Thousands

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[Verse]

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Boats ease into the harbor bearing
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 real suspicious cargo
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And the sunlight on the water sets
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 a switch off in your brain
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The things that you've got coming
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 will consume you
        A               C#m       
There's someone waiting out there 
      Bm           D
in an alley with a chain

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A  C#m  Bm  D

    A                      F      
The ghosts that haunt your 
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building are prepared to take on 
substance
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And the dull pain that you live 
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with isn't getting any duller
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There's a closet full of 
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almost-pristine videotape
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Documenting sordid little scenes
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 in living color

[Chorus]

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Here they come
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The young thousands
               A   A7   D/F#
Here they come
          Bm        D
The young thousands

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[Verse]

    A                   F         
You drive east from the ocean with
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 both hands tied on the wheel
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And you go past Garden Grove as 
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the pleasure index rises
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The things that you've got coming 
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will do things that you're afraid to
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There is someone waiting out there
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 with a mouthful of surprises

A  F    Bm  D
A  C#m  Bm  D

    A                      F      
The ghosts that haunt your 
            Bm              D
building have been learning how to 
breathe
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They scan the hallways nightly 
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vainly searching for a sign
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There must be diamonds somewhere 
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in a place that stinks this bad
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There are brighter things than 
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diamonds coming down the line

[Chorus]

               A   A7   D/F#
Here they come
          Bm        D
The young thousands
               A   A7   D/F#
Here they come
          Bm        D
The young thousands

[Other]

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