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 Boy Scout

'Course he went to Vietnam

Found out the hard way

Nobody gives a damn

Thought that they'd find freedom

Just across the Jersey line

Hopped into a stolen car

Took Highway 99

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they standin'

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 fourteen

To a racketeer named Bill

Made secret plans with the Monkey Man

From a mansion on the hill

It was out on Thunder Road

Tweeter at the wheel

Pulled into paradise

You could hear the tires squeal

It was Jan who'd told him many times

"It was you to me who'd taught

In Kingston everything's legal, man

As long as you don't get caught"

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they standin'

Never saw them when they fell

Some place by Rahway prison

They ran out of gas

The undercover cop cornered 'em

Said, "You didn't think that this could last"

Jan jumped up out of bed

Said, "There's some place I gotta go"

She took the gun out of the drawer

And said, "It's best that you don't know"

An 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

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they standin'

Never saw them when they fell

The town of Jersey City

Is 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 they showed

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 nothin'

But the Monkey Man

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they standin'

Never saw them when they fell