The Message - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.mp3

[00:01.92]The Message - Grandmaster Flash
[00:48.55]It's like a jungle sometimes
[00:49.86]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[01:02.83]Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.75]People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care
[01:07.00]I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
[01:09.30]Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:11.80]Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:14.17]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:16.54]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
[01:18.79]'cuz a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
[01:21.60]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[01:26.17]I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:30.28]Uh huh ha ha ha
[01:31.71]It's like a jungle sometimes
[01:32.65]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[01:35.77]Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window
[01:38.07]Watchin' all the cars go by, roarin' as the breezes blow
[01:40.76]Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
[01:43.01]Eatin' outta garbage pails, used to be a fag hag
[01:45.51]Said she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango
[01:47.69]A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses
[01:50.18]Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps
[01:52.62]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home
[01:54.61]She went to the city and got social security
[01:57.11]She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:59.92] Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[02:04.55]I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:08.54]huh ha Uh ha ha
[02:09.55]It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:10.86]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[02:14.23]It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:15.42]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[02:18.66]My brother's doin' bad, stole my mother's TV
[02:20.78]Says she watches too much, it's just not healthy
[02:22.97]"All My Children" in the daytime, "Dallas" at night
[02:25.90]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:28.33]The bill collectors, they ring my phone
[02:30.52]and scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:32.83]Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:35.07]Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:37.82]Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:39.99]Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:42.68]A mid-range migraine, cancered membrane
[02:45.11]Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane
[02:46.19]I swear I might hijack a plane!
[02:47.63]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
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[02:52.50]I'm trying not to lose my head
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[02:57.25]It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:58.50]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[03:02.00]It's like a jungle sometimes
[03:03.12]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[03:44.62]My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
[03:46.93]'cuz the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
[03:49.30]And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:51.61]if I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:53.79]Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:56.41]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:58.72]'cuz it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
[04:01.15]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:03.59]They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:05.77]Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
[04:08.51]Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:10.64]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:13.14]I can't walk through the park 'cuz it's crazy after dark
[04:15.57]Keep my hand on my gun 'cuz they got me on the run
[04:17.62]I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
[04:20.18]Hear them say "You want some more?"
[04:21.68]Livin' on a see-saw
[04:22.92]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
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[04:27.79]I'm trying not to lose my head
[04:31.47]Say what?
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[04:32.78]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:33.53]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[04:37.34]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:38.34]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[04:42.20]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:43.14]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[04:46.95]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:47.82]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
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[04:51.38]A child is born with no state of mind
[04:53.69]Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:55.88]God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too
[04:58.24]Because only God knows what you'll go through
[05:00.56]You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate
[05:03.06]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate
[05:05.80]The places you play and where you stay
[05:07.55]Looks like one great big alleyway
[05:10.11]You'll admire all the number-book takers
[05:12.86]Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
[05:14.98]Drivin' big cars, spendin' twenties and tens
[05:17.53]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
[05:19.97]Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
[05:22.33]Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers
[05:24.71]You say I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool
[05:26.89]But then you wind up droppin' outta high school
[05:29.27]Now you're unemployed, all non-void
[05:31.76]Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:33.95]Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
[05:36.32]Got sent up for a eight-year bid
[05:38.87]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
[05:41.30]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:43.62]Bein' used and abused to serve like hell
[05:45.68]'til one day, you was found hung dead in the cell
[05:48.36]It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:50.92]You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:53.05]But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:55.15]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so...
[05:57.94]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[06:02.81]I'm trying not to lose my head
[06:06.75]Uh huh huh huh huh
[06:08.07]It's like a jungle sometimes
[06:09.01]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
[06:11.01]Huh, uh huh huh huh huh
[06:12.63]It's like a jungle sometimes
[06:13.63]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
[06:15.56]Huh, uh huh huh huh huh
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