Welcome to the gold rush, ladies and gentlemen   Where California begins and maybe ends   California is the last stop on the great hitchhike   West and now it's getting a little full   Too many thumbs, well, when you get   Too many people in one place      You get intolerance and contempt and rigidity   And tension and sarcasm, distrust, anxiety, envy, hate, cynicism   Discontent, self-pity, malice, suspicion, jealousy and snobbishness   And this leads right into poetry, painting, sculpture   Dance, music and literature, photography      These are known as the arts and art will break your heart   So what? So will a good meal   Art is not the spiritual side of business-as-usual      And art is not for everyone never has been and it never will be   Now me, I don't know much about art, but I do like what I know   You know in these days when everybody is mistaking   Celebrity for talent, ambition for genius, self-pity for humility      Style for content and loathing for love   They spend a lot of time getting in touch with them self   And then they find self-justification, self-righteousness   Self-obsession, self-pity, self-loathing, self-concern   Self-centredness, self-reliance, and self-serving gratification