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Tweeter And The Monkey Man Tweeter and the Monkey Man were hard up for cash They stayed up all night selling cocaine and hash To an undercover cop who had a sister named Jan For reasons unexplained she loved the Monkey Man Tweeter was a boyscout of course he went to Vietnam Found out the hard way nobody gives a damn They knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey Line Hopped into a stolen car took highway 99 When the walls came down all the way to hell Never saw them where they're standing Never saw them when they fell The undercover cop he never liked the Monkey Man Even back in high school wanted to see him in the can Jan got married at 14 to a racketeer named Bill made secret plans for the Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill It was out on thunder road Tweeter at the wheel crashed into paradise you could hear the tires squeal It was Jan who told me many times It was you to me who taught In Kingston everything's legal man as long as you don't get caught When the walls came down... A place by Rahway prison they ran out of gas The undercover cop cornered them said you didn't think this would last Jan jumped out of bed said there's some place I gotta go She took a gun out of the drawer said it's best that you don't know The ambulance rolled up state trooper close behind Tweeter pulled his gun away and messed up his mind the undercover cop was found face down in a field The Monkey Man was on the river bridge using Tweeter as a shield When the walls came down... The town of Jersey City, it's quieting down again I'm sitting in a gambling club called the Lion's Den The TV set is blown up every bit of it is gone Ever since the night when the show That the Monkey Man was on Maybe I'll go to Florida get myself some sun There ain't no more opportunity here and everything's been done Sometimes I think of Tweeter Sometimes I think of Jan Sometimes I don't think about nothing but the Monkey Man When the walls came down... |