The Message - Grandmaster Flash.mp3

[00:43.194]It's like a jungle sometimes
[00:46.817]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[00:47.793]It's like a jungle sometimes
[00:48.566]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[01:01.958]Broken glass everywhere
[01:03.802]People pissin'on the stairs,you know they just don't care
[01:06.798]I can't take the smell,can't take the noise
[01:08.750]Got no money to move out,I guess I got no choice
[01:10.902]Rats in the front room,roaches in the back
[01:13.366]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:15.415]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
[01:18.287]'cuz a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
[01:20.707]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[01:25.357]I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:28.747]Uh huh ha ha ha
[01:31.307]It's like a jungle sometimes
[01:32.147]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[01:34.103]Standin'on the front stoop hangin'out the window
[01:37.167]Watchin'all the cars go by,roarin'as the breezes blow
[01:39.552]Crazy lady,livin'in a bag
[01:41.707]Eatin'outta garbage pails,used to be a fag hag
[01:45.27]Said she'll dance the tango,skip the light fandango
[01:46.968]A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses
[01:49.222]Down at the peep show watchin'all the creeps
[01:51.82]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home
[01:53.367]She went to the city and got so so seditty
[01:55.623]She had to get a pimp,she couldn't make it on her own
[01:58.866]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[02:03.465]I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:07.157]Uh huh ha ha ha
[02:08.697]It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:09.582]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[02:13.332]It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:14.172]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[02:17.729]My brother's doin'bad,stole my mother's TV
[02:19.822]Says she watches too much,it's just not healthy
[02:21.676]"All My Children"in the daytime,"Dallas"at night
[02:24.171]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:27.216]The bill collectors,they ring my phone
[02:29.531]and scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:31.873]Got a bum education,double-digit inflation
[02:33.171]Can't take the train to the job,there's a strike at the station
[02:36.608]Neon King Kong standin'on my back
[02:38.291]Can't stop to turn around,broke my sacroiliac
[02:40.286]A mid-range migraine,cancered membrane
[02:43.797]Sometimes I think I'm goin'insane
[02:44.901]I swear I might hijack a plane!
[02:46.485]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[02:48.616]I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:55.961]It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:56.831]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[02:58.701]It's like a jungle sometimes
[03:01.357]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[03:42.906]My son said,Daddy,I don't wanna go to school
[03:44.917]'cuz the teacher's a jerk,he must think I'm a fool
[03:47.237]And all the kids smoke reefer,I think it'd be cheaper
[03:49.498]if I just got a job,learned to be a street sweeper
[03:52.142]Or dance to the beat,shuffle my feet
[03:54.612]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:57.62]'cuz it's all about money,ain't a damn thing funny
[03:59.322]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:02.02]They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:04.177]Took her to the doctor,sewed her arm on again
[04:06.572]Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:08.947]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:11.213]I can't walk through the park 'cuz it's crazy after dark
[04:13.212]Keep my hand on my gun 'cuz they got me on the run
[04:16.257]I feel like a outlaw,broke my last glass jaw
[04:18.162]Hear them say "You want some more?"
[04:19.582]Livin'on a see-saw
[04:20.332]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[04:24.532]I'm trying not to lose my head
[04:29.539]Say what?
[04:30.665]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:31.476]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[04:35.60]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:36.340]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[04:39.876]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:40.714]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[04:44.518]It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:45.386]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[04:49.191]A child is born with no state of mind
[04:51.191]Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:53.616]God is smilin'on you but he's frownin'too
[04:56.31]Because only God knows what you'll go through
[04:58.456]You'll grow in the ghetto livin'second-rate
[04:59.986]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate
[05:03.200]The places you play and where you stay
[05:05.684]Looks like one great big alleyway
[05:07.900]You'll admire all the number-book takers
[05:10.409]Thugs,pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
[05:12.110]Drivin'big cars,spendin'twenties and tens
[05:15.124]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them,huh
[05:17.605]Smugglers,scramblers,burglars,gamblers
[05:19.825]Pickpocket peddlers,even panhandlers
[05:22.240]You say I'm cool,huh,I'm no fool
[05:24.365]But then you wind up droppin'outta high school
[05:26.935]Now you're unemployed,all non-void
[05:29.390]Walkin'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:31.642]Turned stick-up kid,but look what you done did
[05:33.985]Got sent up for a eight-year bid
[05:36.365]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
[05:38.830]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:41.35]Bein'used and abused to serve like hell
[05:43.303]'til one day,you was found hung dead in the cell
[05:45.620]It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:48.295]You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:50.385]But now your eyes sing the sad,sad song
[05:52.950]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so...
[05:55.411]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge
[06:00.86]I'm trying not to lose my head
[06:04.54]Uh huh huh huh huh
[06:05.334]It's like a jungle sometimes
[06:06.349]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[06:08.434]Huh,uh huh huh huh huh
[06:09.520]It's like a jungle sometimes
[06:11.294]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under
[06:13.154]Huh,uh huh huh huh huh