[00:44.31]The rangers had a homecoming
[00:48.11]In harlem late last night
[00:51.89]And the magic rat drove his sleek machine
[00:56.18]Over the jersey state line
[00:59.93]Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a dodge
[01:02.72]Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
[01:05.34]The rat pulls into town
[01:08.45]Rolls up his pants
[01:10.37]Together they take a stab at romance
[01:13.17]And disappear down flamingo lane
[01:23.31]Well
[01:23.45]The maximum lawmen run down flamingo
[01:26.52]Chasing the rat and the barefoot girl
[01:28.56]And the kids 'round there live just like shadows
[01:35.13]Always quiet
[01:36.29]Holding hands
[01:39.00]From the churches to the jails
[01:42.15]Tonight all is silence in the world
[01:46.77]As we take our stand
[01:49.38]Down in jungleland
[02:02.18]The midnight gang's assembled
[02:04.85]And picked a rendezvous for the night
[02:09.18]They'll meet 'neath that giant exxon sign
[02:12.75]That brings this fair city light
[02:15.99]Man
[02:16.31]There's an opera out on the turnpike
[02:19.22]There's a ballet being fought out in the alley
[02:23.34]Until the local cops
[02:25.13]Cherry tops
[02:27.33]Rips this holy night
[02:28.91]The street's alive as secret debts are paid
[02:33.62]Contacts made
[02:34.88]They flash unseen
[02:37.29]Kids flash guitars just like switchblades
[02:40.97]Hustling for the record machine
[02:44.28]The hungry and the hunted
[02:47.72]Explode into rock 'n' roll bands
[02:51.33]That face off against each other out in the street
[02:54.20]Down in jungleland
[03:31.56]In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage
[03:38.00]Inside the backstreet girls are dancing
[03:40.77]To the records that the dj plays
[03:45.00]Lonely hearted lovers struggle in dark corners
[03:48.30]Desperate as the night moves on
[03:51.71]Just one look and a whisper
[03:54.84]And they're gone
[06:57.75]Beneath the city
[07:00.54]Two hearts beat
[07:03.32]Soul engines running through a night so tender
[07:11.73]In a bedroom locked in whispers
[07:16.68]Of soft refusal and then surrender
[07:26.73]In the tunnels uptown
[07:29.63]The rat's own dream guns him down
[07:33.48]As shots echo down them hallways in the night
[07:40.98]No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
[07:48.41]Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
[07:54.68]Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
[08:02.25]Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
[08:06.62]And the poets down here don't write nothing at all
[08:10.70]They just stand back and let it all be
[08:15.26]And in the quick of a knife
[08:16.74]They reach for their moment
[08:18.44]And try to make an honest stand
[08:22.92]But they wind up wounded
[09:36.41]Not even dead
[09:43.52]Tonight in jungleland
