The Message

The Message Lyrics

Song The Message
Artist Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
Album Back to the Old Skool: Hip Hop
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[00:43.399] It's like a jungle sometimes
[00:44.511] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[00:48.110] It's like a jungle sometimes
[00:49.294] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[01:02.646] Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.446] People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
[01:06.814] I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
[01:09.118] Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:11.654] Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:13.918] Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:16.382] I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
[01:18.846] Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
[01:21.142] Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
[01:25.974] I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:31.062] It's like a jungle sometimes
[01:32.077] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[01:35.677] Standing on the front stoop, hanging out the window
[01:37.925] Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:40.333] Crazy lady, living in a bag
[01:42.653] Eating out of garbage pails, used to be a fag hag
[01:45.173] Said she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango
[01:47.469] A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses
[01:50.045] Down at the peep show watching all the creeps
[01:52.157] So she can tell her stories to the girls back home
[01:54.605] She went to the city and got social security
[01:56.917] She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:59.245] Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
[02:04.117] I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:09.373] It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:10.417] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[02:14.185] It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:15.281] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[02:18.777] My brother's doing bad, stole my mother's TV
[02:20.656] Says she watches too much, it's just not healthy
[02:23.240] All My Children in the daytime, Dallas at night
[02:25.520] Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:28.144] The bill collectors, they ring my phone
[02:30.520] And scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:32.856] Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:35.096] Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:37.784] Neon King Kong standing on my back
[02:39.944] Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:42.424] A mid-range migraine, cancered membrane
[02:44.944] Sometimes I think I'm going insane
[02:46.052] I swear I might hijack a plane!
[02:47.492] Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
[02:52.036] I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:57.162] It's like a jungle sometimes
[02:58.242] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[03:01.970] It's like a jungle sometimes
[03:03.042] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[03:44.821] My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
[03:46.957] Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
[03:49.381] And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:51.805] If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:54.197] Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:56.613] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:58.917] Cause it's all about money; ain't a damn thing funny
[04:01.349] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:03.766] They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:06.245] Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
[04:08.581] Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:10.973] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:13.285] I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark
[04:15.757] Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
[04:18.037] I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
[04:20.573] Hear them say "You want some more?", living on a see-saw
[04:22.885] Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
[04:27.670] I'm trying not to lose my head
[04:32.910] It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:34.047] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[04:37.692] It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:38.621] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[04:42.292] It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:43.541] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[04:47.124] It's like a jungle sometimes
[04:48.444] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[04:51.765] A child is born with no state of mind
[04:53.916] Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:56.277] God is smiling on you, but he's frowning too
[04:58.661] Because only God knows what you'll go through
[05:00.964] You'll grow in the ghetto living second-rate
[05:03.229] And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate
[05:05.821] The places you play and where you stay
[05:08.125] Looks like one great big alleyway
[05:10.557] You'll admire all the number-book takers
[05:13.060] Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
[05:15.548] Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[05:17.668] And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
[05:20.204] Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
[05:22.612] Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers
[05:25.109] You say "I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool."
[05:27.229] But then you wind up dropping outta high school
[05:29.693] Now you're unemployed, all null and void
[05:32.076] Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:34.500] Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
[05:36.844] Got sent up for a eight-year bid
[05:39.293] Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
[05:41.596] Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:43.973] Being used and abused to serve like hell
[05:46.342] 'Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell
[05:48.733] It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:51.133] You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:53.492] But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:56.286] Of how you lived so fast and died so young, so...
[05:58.606] Don't push me, cause I'm close to the edge
[06:03.358] I'm trying not to lose my head
[06:08.166] It's like a jungle sometimes
[06:09.542] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[06:13.326] It's like a jungle sometimes
[06:14.399] It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
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