Headstones - Tweeter and the Monkey Man

作曲 : The Traveling Wilburys

Tweeter and the

Monkey Man were hardup for cash

They stayed up all night selling ******* and hash

To an undercover cop who had a sister named

JanFor reasons unexplained she loved the

Monkey Man

Tweeter was a boy scout course he went to

VietnamAnd found out the hard way, nobody gives a damn

They knew that they found freedom just across the

Jersey line

So they hopped into a stolen car, took

Highway 99

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing

Never saw them when they fell

The undercover cop never liked the

Monkey Man

Even back in childhood he wanted to see him in the can

Jan got married at fourteen to a racketeer named

BillShe made secret calls to the

Monkey Man from a mansion on the hill

It was out on

Thunder Road,

Tweeter at the wheel

They crashed into paradise, they could hear them tires squeal

The undercover cop pulled up and said "Everyone of you is a liarIf you don't surrender now, it's gonna go down to the wire"

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing

Never saw them when they fell

An ambulance rolled up, a

State-Trooper close behind

Tweeter took his gun away and messed up his mind

The undercover cop was left tied up to a tree

Near the souvenir stand, by the old abandoned factory

Next day the undercover cop was hot in pursuit

He was taking the whole thing personal, he didn't care about the loot

Jan had told him many times, "It was you to me who taughtIn Jersey anything's legal, as long as you don't get caught"

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing

Never saw them when they fell

Some place by

Rahwey Prison they ran out of gas

The undercover cop had cornered them, said"Boy, you didn't think this could last?"

Jan jumped out of bed, said, "There's someplace I gotta go"

She took the gun out of the drawer, said, "It's best that you don't know"

The undercover cop was found face down in a field

The Monkey

Man was on the river bridge using

Tweeter as a shield

Jan said to the

Monkey Man, "I'm not fooled by Tweeter's curlI knew him long before he ever became a Jersey Girl"

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing

Never saw them when they fell

Now the town of

Jersey City is quieting down again

I'm sitting in a gambling club called the

Lion's Den

The TV set was blown up, every bit of it was gone

Ever since the nightly news showed that the

Monkey Man was on

I guess I'll go to

Florida to get myself some sun

There ain't no more opportunity here, everything's been done

Sometimes

I think of

Tweeter, sometimes

I think of

JanSometimes

I don't think about nothing but the

Monkey Man

And the walls came down

All the way to hell

Never saw them when they're standing

Never saw them when they fell