[ti:The Message] [ar:The Furious Five/Grandmaster Flash] [al:The Best of Grandmaster Flash & Sugar Hill] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.26]The Message - The Furious Five/Grandmaster Flash [00:15.26]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:16.49]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [00:20.04]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:21.20]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [00:33.82]My brother's doin' bad stole my mother's TV [00:36.23]Says she watches too much it's just not healthy [00:38.60]All my children in the daytime dallas at night [00:40.95]Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight [00:43.60]The bill collectors they ring my phone [00:45.84]And scare my wife when I'm not home [00:48.17]Got a bum education double-digit inflation [00:50.61]Can't take the train to the job there's a strike at the station [00:53.04]Neon King Kong standin' on my back [00:55.37]Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac [00:57.88]A mid-range migraine cancered membrane [01:00.39]Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane [01:01.56]I swear I might hijack a plane [01:02.82]Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge [01:07.64]I'm trying not to lose my head [01:12.62]It's like a jungle sometimes [01:13.75]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [01:17.35]It's like a jungle sometimes [01:18.46]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [01:40.82]A child is born with no state of mind [01:43.24]Blind to the ways of mankind [01:45.48]God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too [01:47.80]Because only God knows what you'll go through [01:50.17]You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate [01:52.61]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate [01:55.20]The places you play and where you stay [01:57.41]Looks like one great big alleyway [01:59.81]You'll admire all the number-book takers [02:02.43]Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money-makers [02:04.80]Drivin' big cars spendin' twenties and tens [02:07.00]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them huh [02:09.55]Smugglers scramblers burglars gamblers [02:11.98]Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers [02:14.33]You say I'm cool huh I'm no fool [02:16.38]But then you wind up droppin' outta high school [02:18.93]Now you're unemployed all non-void [02:21.61]Walkin' round like you're pretty boy floyd [02:23.82]Turned stick-up kid but look what you done did [02:26.24]Got sent up for a eight-year bid [02:28.58]Now your manhood is took and you're a maytag [02:30.91]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [02:33.30]Bein' used and abused to serve like hell [02:35.57]'Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell [02:38.09]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song [02:40.38]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so [02:43.09]Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge [02:47.96]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:53.02]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:54.33]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [02:57.79]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:58.71]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under