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[00:00:00] The Message - Grandmaster Flash

[00:00:48] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:00:49] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:01:02] Broken glass everywhere

[00:01:04] People pissin' on the stairs you know they just don't care

[00:01:07] I can't take the smell can't take the noise

[00:01:09] Got no money to move out I guess I got no choice

[00:01:11] Rats in the front room roaches in the back

[00:01:14] Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat

[00:01:16] I tried to get away but I couldn't get far

[00:01:18] 'Cuz a man with a tow truck repossessed my car

[00:01:21] Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge

[00:01:26] I'm trying not to lose my head

[00:01:30] Uh huh ha ha ha

[00:01:31] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:01:32] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:01:35] Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window

[00:01:38] Watchin' all the cars go by roarin' as the breezes blow

[00:01:40] Crazy lady livin' in a bag

[00:01:43] Eatin' outta garbage pails used to be a fag hag

[00:01:45] Said she'll dance the tango skip the light fandango

[00:01:47] A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses

[00:01:50] Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps

[00:01:52] So she can tell her stories to the girls back home

[00:01:54] She went to the city and got social security

[00:01:57] She had to get a pimp she couldn't make it on her own

[00:01:59] Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge

[00:02:04] I'm trying not to lose my head

[00:02:08] Uh huh ha ha ha

[00:02:09] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:02:10] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:02:14] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:02:15] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:02:18] My brother's doin' bad stole my mother's TV

[00:02:20] Says she watches too much it's just not healthy

[00:02:22] "All My Children" in the daytime "Dallas" at night

[00:02:25] Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight

[00:02:28] The bill collectors they ring my phone

[00:02:30] And scare my wife when I'm not home

[00:02:32] Got a bum education double-digit inflation

[00:02:35] Can't take the train to the job there's a strike at the station

[00:02:37] Neon King Kong standin' on my back

[00:02:39] Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac

[00:02:42] A mid-range migraine cancered membrane

[00:02:45] Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane

[00:02:46] I swear I might hijack a plane

[00:02:47] Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge

[00:02:52] I'm trying not to lose my head

[00:02:57] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:02:58] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:03:02] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:03:03] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:03:44] My son said Daddy I don't wanna go to school

[00:03:46] 'Cuz the teacher's a jerk he must think I'm a fool

[00:03:49] And all the kids smoke reefer I think it'd be cheaper

[00:03:51] If I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper

[00:03:53] Or dance to the beat shuffle my feet

[00:03:56] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps

[00:03:58] 'Cuz it's all about money ain't a damn thing funny

[00:04:01] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey

[00:04:03] They pushed that girl in front of the train

[00:04:05] Took her to the doctor sewed her arm on again

[00:04:08] Stabbed that man right in his heart

[00:04:10] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start

[00:04:13] I can't walk through the park 'cuz it's crazy after dark

[00:04:15] Keep my hand on my gun 'cuz they got me on the run

[00:04:17] I feel like a outlaw broke my last glass jaw

[00:04:20] Hear them say "You want some more "

[00:04:21] Livin' on a see-saw

[00:04:22] Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge

[00:04:27] I'm trying not to lose my head

[00:04:31] Say what

[00:04:32] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:04:33] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:04:37] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:04:38] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:04:42] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:04:43] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:04:46] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:04:47] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:04:51] A child is born with no state of mind

[00:04:53] Blind to the ways of mankind

[00:04:55] God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too

[00:04:58] Because only God knows what you'll go through

[00:05:00] You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate

[00:05:03] And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate

[00:05:05] The places you play and where you stay

[00:05:07] Looks like one great big alleyway

[00:05:10] You'll admire all the number-book takers

[00:05:12] Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money-makers

[00:05:14] Drivin' big cars spendin' twenties and tens

[00:05:17] And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them huh

[00:05:19] Smugglers scramblers burglars gamblers

[00:05:22] Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers

[00:05:24] You say I'm cool huh I'm no fool

[00:05:26] But then you wind up droppin' outta high school

[00:05:29] Now you're unemployed all non-void

[00:05:31] Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd

[00:05:33] Turned stick-up kid but look what you done did

[00:05:36] Got sent up for a eight-year bid

[00:05:38] Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag

[00:05:41] Spend the next two years as a undercover fag

[00:05:43] Bein' used and abused to serve like hell

[00:05:45] 'Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell

[00:05:48] It was plain to see that your life was lost

[00:05:50] You was cold and your body swung back and forth

[00:05:53] But now your eyes sing the sad sad song

[00:05:55] Of how you lived so fast and died so young so

[00:05:57] Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge

[00:06:02] I'm trying not to lose my head

[00:06:06] Uh huh huh huh huh

[00:06:08] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:06:09] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:06:11] Huh uh huh huh huh huh

[00:06:12] It's like a jungle sometimes

[00:06:13] It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

[00:06:15] Huh uh huh huh huh huh