Jungleland-Bruce Springsteen

[ti:Jungleland] [ar:Bruce Springsteen] [al:The Essential Bruce Springsteen] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen [00:42.42]The Rangers had a homecoming [00:45.70]In Harlem late last night [00:49.42]And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine [00:53.28]Over the Jersey state line [00:56.71]Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge [00:59.77]Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain [01:04.05]The Rat pulls into town [01:05.27]Rolls up his pants [01:06.75]Together they take a stab at romance [01:09.11]And disappear down Flamingo Lane [01:18.80]Well the Maximum Lawmen run down Flamingo [01:21.85]Chasing the Rat and the barefoot girl [01:26.31]And the kids 'round there live just like shadows [01:29.60]Always quiet [01:30.91]Holding hands [01:33.51]From the churches to the jails [01:36.34]Tonight all is silence in the world [01:40.61]As we take our stand [01:45.04]Down in Jungleland [01:55.40]The midnight gang's assembled [01:58.17]And picked a rendezvous for the night [02:02.19]They'll meet 'neath that giant Exxon sign [02:05.79]That brings this fair city light [02:09.35]Man there's an opera out on the Turnpike [02:12.88]There's a ballet being fought out in the alley [02:16.46]Until the local cops [02:18.64]Cherry-Tops [02:20.29]Rips this holy night [02:23.98]The street's alive as secret debts are paid [02:27.01]Contacts made [02:28.31]They flash unseen [02:30.83]Kids flash guitars just like switchblades [02:34.59]Hustling for the record machine [02:38.17]The hungry and the hunted [02:41.71]Explode into rock and roll bands [02:45.53]That face off against each other out in the street [02:49.13]Down in Jungleland [03:27.55]In the parking lot the visionaries dress in the latest rage [03:34.57]Inside the backstreet girls are [03:36.54]Dancing to the records that the DJ plays [03:41.86]Lonely-hearted lovers struggle in dark corners [03:45.15]Desperate as the night moves on [03:48.85]Just one look and a whisper [03:51.92]And they're gone [06:58.65]Beneath the city [07:02.12]Two hearts beat [07:05.02]Soul engines running through a night so tender [07:14.21]In a bedroom locked [07:18.31]In whispers of soft [07:22.40]Refusal and then [07:26.08]Surrender [07:29.95]In the tunnels uptown [07:32.69]The Rat's own dream guns him down [07:37.04]As shots echo down them hallways in the night [07:44.79]No one watches when the ambulance pulls away [07:51.93]Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light [07:58.91]Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz [08:05.06]Between what's flesh and what's fantasy [08:09.32]And the poets down here don't write nothing at all [08:12.99]They just stand back and let it all be [08:17.06]And in the quick of a knife [08:18.98]They reach for their moment [08:20.05]And try to make an honest stand [08:24.83]But they wind up wounded [08:27.37]Not even dead [08:31.20]Tonight in Jungleland [08:44.57]Woo [08:50.91]Woo [08:57.12]Oh [09:03.78]Oh [09:10.21]Oh [09:16.33]Oh