Les Arrivistes

See them walking into town
 Strut like they own the place
 Pretty soon they will
 Well, next years Arrivistes
 Wet behind the ears
 And last years men are there
 To help them harden up
 Don't be a fool
 He's using you
 And you're using him
 There's a tenderness
 Between thieves
 For a moment
 Just don't look forward
 Cause this cannot stop
 Shadows of buildings
 It all leans in
 Sliding like mercury
 You're gonna live
 For so long
 Watching, these others win
 How can my ship come in,
 When you are the waterfront?
 Cultivate my cruelty
 To mass the herd
 I can't express here
 Cause Dorothy Parker
 Is always safer
 Than Valerie Solanas
 Or Josephine Baker
 So you better stop
 From an intern to a bride
 Then they come for your house
 Compliment you on the wide, western views
 Then they lightly throw you out