The rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down Flamingo Lane girl
Well the Maximum Lawman run down Flamingo chasing the Rat and the barefoot
And the kids round here look just like shadows always quiet, holding hands From the churches to the jails tonight all is silence in the world
As we take our stand down in Jungleland
The midnight gang's assembled and picked a rendezvous for the night
They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light
There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike
Until the local cops, Cherry Tops, rips this holy night
Kids flash guitars just like switchThe street's alive as secret debts are paid
That face off against each other out in the street down in Jungleland
Contacts made, they vanished unseen
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
Inside the backstreet girls are dancing to the records that the D.J. plays
Lonely
Desperate as the night moves on, just a look and a whisper, and they're gone
Beneath the city two hearts beat
Soul engines running through a night so tender in a bedroom locked
night
In whispers of soft refusal and then surrender in the tunnels uptown
The Rat's own dream guns him down as shots echo down them hallways in the No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland.
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