The Rolling Stones - Cops and Robbers lyrics
[The Rolling Stones - Cops and Robbers lyrics]
As I was driving home along
The boulevard late one night
I saw a guy in the corner, bumming all alone
As I passed him by
I heard him holler out: "Hey!"
I slowed down to see what he said, he said:
"Eh! By any chance, are you goin' my way?"
I said: "sure baby
Hop on in and give me a cigarette"
Then he reached out in his pocket
And that was the moment I regret
Well now boy "Reach for the sky!"
Because I don't understand, sir
"Don't you try no monkey business
I got a stopper in my hand!"
An' then he said: "You see this
Rock I got in my hand?
This is a 38 pistol built on a 45 frame
It shoots tombstone bullets an'
A ball and chain!"
He said: "I ain't tryin' to shake you up
But I just want you to know
If the cops start to crowding me in
You're gonna be the first to go!
You just drive on just like
There ain't nothin' happenin'"
That's what he told me
He wouldn't even let me look back at nothin'
And he said: "when you get to that red light
I want you to jump back your left
And then switch back your right"
He said: "Now
I want you to park up in that alley
Ah ah, not that alley, that one over there
And cool it behind that liquor store
And keep a sharp lookout at all times
While I sneak in that back door"
That's what he told me
He said: "keep your foot on the gas
And always be on guard
'cos when I come runnin' out the
Liquor store with all that money
He wanted me to mash on it real hard
He said: "Now don't you come out of
There an' try me a double-crossed
Because it's murder when the heats on!"
Well now boy "Reach for the sky!"
Yeah but I don't understand, sir
"Don't you try no monkey business
I got a stopper in my hand!"
Ooeee, while I was sittin'
There just tremblin'
A spotlight hit me dead in the face
An' a cop pulled up behind me and said:
"Move up a bit man
For we want to take your place!"
An' then this guy come runnin' out of the
Store with the money in his hand
And said "Oh there you are!"
He made a mistake in the dark and
Ran and leaped in the police car!
When they put the handcuffs on him
I said: "Child
Your crime must have outgrew him!"
An' then they said: "Yeh
We gonna put him so far
Back in jail this time
That they're gonna have to
Pump air into him!"
Well now boy "reach for the sky"
Yeah but I said, I don't understand sir
Don't you try no monkey business
I got a stopper in my hand
The boulevard late one night
I saw a guy in the corner, bumming all alone
As I passed him by
I heard him holler out: "Hey!"
I slowed down to see what he said, he said:
"Eh! By any chance, are you goin' my way?"
I said: "sure baby
Hop on in and give me a cigarette"
Then he reached out in his pocket
And that was the moment I regret
Well now boy "Reach for the sky!"
Because I don't understand, sir
"Don't you try no monkey business
I got a stopper in my hand!"
An' then he said: "You see this
Rock I got in my hand?
This is a 38 pistol built on a 45 frame
It shoots tombstone bullets an'
A ball and chain!"
He said: "I ain't tryin' to shake you up
But I just want you to know
If the cops start to crowding me in
You're gonna be the first to go!
You just drive on just like
There ain't nothin' happenin'"
That's what he told me
He wouldn't even let me look back at nothin'
And he said: "when you get to that red light
I want you to jump back your left
And then switch back your right"
He said: "Now
I want you to park up in that alley
Ah ah, not that alley, that one over there
And cool it behind that liquor store
And keep a sharp lookout at all times
While I sneak in that back door"
That's what he told me
He said: "keep your foot on the gas
And always be on guard
'cos when I come runnin' out the
Liquor store with all that money
He wanted me to mash on it real hard
He said: "Now don't you come out of
There an' try me a double-crossed
Because it's murder when the heats on!"
Well now boy "Reach for the sky!"
Yeah but I don't understand, sir
"Don't you try no monkey business
I got a stopper in my hand!"
Ooeee, while I was sittin'
There just tremblin'
A spotlight hit me dead in the face
An' a cop pulled up behind me and said:
"Move up a bit man
For we want to take your place!"
An' then this guy come runnin' out of the
Store with the money in his hand
And said "Oh there you are!"
He made a mistake in the dark and
Ran and leaped in the police car!
When they put the handcuffs on him
I said: "Child
Your crime must have outgrew him!"
An' then they said: "Yeh
We gonna put him so far
Back in jail this time
That they're gonna have to
Pump air into him!"
Well now boy "reach for the sky"
Yeah but I said, I don't understand sir
Don't you try no monkey business
I got a stopper in my hand