Hear the screams of Center 42 / Loud enough to bust your brains out / The opposition’s tongue is cut in two / Keep off the street ’cause you’re in danger

One hundred thousand disparus / Lost in the jails in 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 on 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 been rounded up / And sent to camps back in the jungle / And people whisper people double-talk / Once proud 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 all out of sight / Keep it undercover / Keep it all out of sight / Undercover / Keep it all out of sight / Undercover

Keep it all 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 Johns are jerky little G.I. Joes / On R&R from Cuba and Russia

The smell of sex, the smell of suicide / All these dream things I can’t keep inside

Undercover / Keep it all out of sight / Undercover of the night / Undercover of the night / Undercover of the night

Undercover / Undercover / Undercover of the night

[By Mick Jagger – Keith Richards © Rolling Stones Records / Virgin Records, 1983]