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Undercover Of The Night Lyrics
Hear the screams from Center 42
Lound enough to bust your brains out
The opposition's tongue is cut in two
Keep off the streets cause you're in danger
One hundred thousand disparos
Lost in the jails of South America
Cuddle up baby
Cuddle up tight
Cuddle up baby
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover of the night
The sex police are out there in the streets
Make sure the pass laws are not broken
The race militia has got itchy fingers
All the way from New York back to Africa
Cuddle up baby
Keep it all out of sight
Cuddle up baby
Sleep with all out of sight
Cuddle up baby
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover
Undercover
Undercover
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover of the night
All the young men they've rounded up
Sent to camps back in the jungle
And people whisper, people double-talk
At once their fathers act so humble
All the young girls they have got the blues
They're heading on back to Center 42
Keep it undercover
Keep it out of sight
Keep it undercover
Keep it out of sight
Undercover
Keep it out of sight
Undercover
Keep it out of sight
Undercover of the night
Down in the bars, the girls are painted blue
Done up in lace, done up in rubber
The john's are jerky little G.I. Joe's
On R&R from Cuba and Russia
The smell of sex
The smell of suicide
All these things I just can't keep inside
Undercover
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover of the night
Undercover of the night
Undercover of the night
Undercover of the night
Undercover
Undercover
Lound enough to bust your brains out
The opposition's tongue is cut in two
Keep off the streets cause you're in danger
Lost in the jails of South America
Cuddle up baby
Cuddle up tight
Cuddle up baby
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover of the night
Make sure the pass laws are not broken
The race militia has got itchy fingers
All the way from New York back to Africa
Keep it all out of sight
Cuddle up baby
Sleep with all out of sight
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover
Undercover
Undercover
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover of the night
Sent to camps back in the jungle
And people whisper, people double-talk
At once their fathers act so humble
All the young girls they have got the blues
They're heading on back to Center 42
Keep it undercover
Keep it out of sight
Keep it undercover
Keep it out of sight
Undercover
Keep it out of sight
Undercover
Keep it out of sight
Undercover of the night
Done up in lace, done up in rubber
The john's are jerky little G.I. Joe's
On R&R from Cuba and Russia
The smell of sex
The smell of suicide
All these things I just can't keep inside
Keep it all out of sight
Undercover of the night
Undercover of the night
Undercover of the night
Undercover of the night
Undercover
Undercover
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This song is about the fate of the poor in Latin America and throughout the third world. The young men are forced to fight for causes that they aren't necesarily in favour of while girls are sent to section 42 which is the prostitution district. The jazzed up musical style may have hurt the delivery of the message on this one. Check out my coments on Indian Girl. I have always thought that this song is a continuation of that theme of poor people bearing the brunt of political unrest.
@daleknowsit This Center 42 refers to the torture centers of Chile where women were brutally raped.
@daleknowsit This Center 42 refers to the torture centers of Chile where women were brutally raped.
woah, nobody likes this song? i remember it coming out when i was 8 years old. sleazy song, violent video, dirty album cover. fantastic!
Damn right! That's about how old I was. Then lost interest as years went on in favor of "the old stuff". But now there's no denyin this baddass. I don't understand how one can love the old coked up classics like Gimme Shelter and Monkey Man and fail to see how great this is. Ya gotta be nuts. The volume wah pedal! Great song. And what isn't fuckin awesome about the lyrics? Ya think lyrics aren't good if ain't Blowin In the Wind or somethin? Rules!
Damn right! That's about how old I was. Then lost interest as years went on in favor of "the old stuff". But now there's no denyin this baddass. I don't understand how one can love the old coked up classics like Gimme Shelter and Monkey Man and fail to see how great this is. Ya gotta be nuts. The volume wah pedal! Great song. And what isn't fuckin awesome about the lyrics? Ya think lyrics aren't good if ain't Blowin In the Wind or somethin? Rules!
@papersnake
@papersnake
@papersnake \r\nI was 8 myself when this great album was released. I concur with these two gentlemen here. This album separates the fans from: whom likes this album and carry the same type A the stones themselves personified vs. not
@papersnake \r\nI was 8 myself when this great album was released. I concur with these two gentlemen here. This album separates the fans from: whom likes this album and carry the same type A the stones themselves personified vs. not
"Center 42" may be fictional, but given the lyrics, it must refer to a torture center run by any repressive South American government. The young girls keep going back there either because they believe a loved one is imprisoned there, or if it's a prostitution reference, they are servicing the guards and officials.
Lyrics mistake: the correct line is "and once-proud fathers act so humble."
@ProfessorAndro There was a Lourdes 38 in Chile, a torture center where women were brutally raped and murdered.
@ProfessorAndro There was a Lourdes 38 in Chile, a torture center where women were brutally raped and murdered.
Theres a kettle drum in this,I'm sure thats what I'm hearing. Another great one. :)
music snobs all of you.
Look at this point, Mick was looking for terrors to write about, his life was close to perfect.
IMOP, he did what he could and came up with another catchy R N R song.
face facts the stones have very few great lyrical songs.....just throw this one in the bunch
@pt You were really ignorant about Stones lyrics back in 2005. Lotta wotta under the bridge since then. ;)
@pt You were really ignorant about Stones lyrics back in 2005. Lotta wotta under the bridge since then. ;)
I completely agree with Papersnake:
I was raised on jazz and funk... a white girl without a clue about rock n' roll until she hit high school. The Stones have scads of brilliant songs... this too is among them - gritty arrangements, cutting riffs ala base or drum or nashing guitar... a video equally dark and dirty - even quite possibly the impetus for the whole Miami Vice series aesthetic (note the dude getting shot in the back with a paper bag on his head). It's made out of concrete and sweat and I don't hear ' STUDIO and OVER PRODUCTION' in it at all. Just good and raw.
... most notable of all... thank god it's nothing like the bullshit song 'Moves like Jagger' courtesy of Maroon 5.
Undercover of the Night evokes ATMOSPHERE. It even goes so far as to show 2 teenagers feeling each other up on the living room couch.
... made me completely squirm as a kid.
It is positively seemless...
SUCCESS!!!
section 42 is the section of the tax code that deals with govt assisted housing
@wsp1013am This refers to Center 42. Torture jails in Chile were referrred to as centers.
@wsp1013am This refers to Center 42. Torture jails in Chile were referrred to as centers.
Rock and a Hard Place, Part II. Jagger's political songs are his best.