Lyrics
The sea to my back down there, home to the front
The Guard will come from Treasure, hot from the hunt
Trails of bills behind broken left and right
Cabled down the one way drag tired from the fight
Had a job in the Mission saving the world
Blew it off like Sunset fog into a flag unfurled
Then I hopped through the bars one by one
Down China through the North Beach dredge and into the sun
I am 1,000, don’t use the shining phones
I am 1,000 throw down the bones
The sign said in flashing red, slow to 25
They know that’s been my plan since I been alive
Once I slept in the Golden Park ‘neath an imported tree
Stumbled drunken through the subway walls just beginning to see
You can’t run with the big dogs if you piss like a runt
You can’t take home a kill if you don’t join the hunt
You don’t know where the border is until you cross the line
Can’t know how deep the water might be until you take the dive
I am 1,000, into the broken glass
I am 1,000 all things must pass