The Message-Grand Master Flash

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[00:00.68]The Message by Grandmaster Flash
[00:43.10]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:44.16]How I keep from going under
[00:47.59]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:48.90]How I keep from going under
[01:01.61]Broken glass everywhere
[01:03.24]People pissing on the stairs' you know they just don't care
[01:05.53]I can't take the smell' I can't take the noise
[01:07.96]Got no money to move out' I guess I got no choice
[01:10.33]Rats in the front room' roaches in the back
[01:12.64]Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
[01:14.83]I tried to get away' but I couldn't get far
[01:17.14]Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car
[01:19.50]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[01:24.33]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh
[01:29.44]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[01:31.26]How I keep from going under
[01:33.75]Standing on the front stoop' hangin' out the window
[01:36.00]Watching all the cars go by' roaring as the breezes blow
[01:38.56]Crazy lady livin' in her bag
[01:40.69]Eating out of garbage piles' used to be a fag-hag
[01:43.24]Such a nice to tango' skipped her life and then go
[01:45.49]In search of her prince it seemed she lost her senses
[01:47.69]Down at the peepshow' watching all the creeps
[01:49.81]So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:52.30]She went to the city and got social security
[01:54.73]She had to get a pimp' she couldn't make it on her own
[01:57.04]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[02:01.64]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh
[02:06.88]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:08.65]How I keep from going under
[02:11.32]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:12.82]How I keep from going under
[02:15.75]My brother's doing best on my mother's TV
[02:17.81]She says: “You watch it too much' it's just not healthy ”
[02:20.44]“All My Children” in the daytime' “Dallas” at night
[02:23.11]Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:25.18]The bill collectors they ring my phone
[02:27.17]And scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:29.56]Got a bum education' double-digit inflation
[02:31.88]I can't take the train to the job' there's a strike at the station
[02:35.06]Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:36.75]Can't stop to turn around' broke my sacroiliac
[02:38.83]A mid-ranged migraine' cancered membrane
[02:41.41]Sometimes I think I'm going insane' I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:43.75]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[02:48.83]I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:52.95]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:54.59]How I keep from going under
[02:58.26]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonde
[02:59.63]How I keep from going under
[03:39.76]My son said: ”Daddy I don't wonna go to school
[03:41.88]Cause the teacher's a jerk ”' he must think I'm a fool
[03:44.50]And all the kids smoke **' I think it'd be cheaper
[03:46.13]If I just got a job' learned to be a street sweeper
[03:48.45]I'll dance to the beat' shuffle my feet
[03:51.08]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:53.45]Cause it's all about money' ain't a damn thing funny
[03:55.76]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[03:58.39]They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:00.44]Took her to the doctor' sewed her arm on again
[04:02.63]Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:05.00]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:07.39]I can't walk through the park' cause it's crazy after dark
[04:09.90]Keep my hand on my gun' cause they got me on the run
[04:12.07]I feel like a outlaw' broke my last glass jar
[04:14.44]Hear them say: “You want some more livin' on a seesaw ”
[04:17.08]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[04:21.75]I'm trying not to lose my head
[04:26.79]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:27.74]How I keep from going under
[04:31.28]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonde
[04:32.66]How I keep from going under
[04:35.96]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:37.94]How I keep from going under
[04:40.56]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:42.00]How I keep from going under
[04:45.00]A child is born with no state of mind
[04:47.15]Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:49.21]God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
[04:51.59]Because only God knows what you'll go through
[04:54.05]You'll grow in the ghetto' living second rate
[04:56.31]And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[04:58.75]The places you're playin'' where you stay
[05:01.00]Looks like one great big alley way
[05:02.93]You'll admire all the number book takers
[05:06.03]Thugs' pimps' pushers and the big money makers
[05:08.09]Driving big cars' spending twenties and tens
[05:10.48]And you wonna grow up to be just like them' huh'
[05:13.04]Smugglers' scrambles' burglars' gamblers
[05:14.92]Pickpockets' peddlers even panhandlers
[05:17.42]You say: “I'm cool' I'm no fool ”
[05:19.73]But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:21.99]Now you're unemployed' all non-void
[05:23.42]Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:26.75]Turned stickup kid' look what you've done did
[05:29.00]Got sent up for a eight year bid
[05:31.24]Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
[05:33.68]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:35.98]Being used and abused to serve like hell
[05:38.17]Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:40.72]It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:42.93]You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:45.19]But now your eyes sing the sad' sad song
[05:47.46]Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:49.82]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[05:55.26]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh
[06:00.08]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:01.75]How I keep from going under
[06:04.52]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:06.02]How I keep from going under