the midnight boys are outside scraping tears up off the street standin guard beneath the window where only linda sleeps the leader is a kid named eddie walkin like an angel in defeat he trashes her old man s car slashes linda s name in the seat and calls out linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one in a room full of contenders eddie spars till he drops to his bed and surrenders draped in the scarves he stole from linda s bedroom the night he layed at her feet when the midnight boys were stranded down on cason street linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one in the basement of st mary s eddie hides from the rain in with the stolen sisters till the streets are dry again talkin fast cars and spare parts empty homes and broken hearts distant worlds with strange girls and kneeling with linda in the dark linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one linda will you let me be the one 