The Message-Original Cartel

[ti:Message - Sound-A-Like As Made Famous By Grandmaster Flash& The Furious 5] [ar:Various Artists] [al:Almost Pop: Musica Ricerata] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message - Original Cartel [00:44.51]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:45.66]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [00:47.94]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:50.00]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [01:03.74]Broken glass everywhere [01:04.36] [01:05.32]People pissin' on the stairs you know they just don't care [01:07.52]I can't take the smell can't take the noise [01:10.10]Got no money to move out I guess I got no choice [01:12.68]Rats in the front room roaches in the back [01:14.54]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat [01:17.24]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far [01:19.70]Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car [01:21.64]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [01:27.26]I'm trying not to lose my head [01:31.02] [01:32.28]It's like a jungle sometimes [01:33.30]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [01:36.74]Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window [01:38.94]Watchin' all the cars go by roarin' as the breezes blow [01:41.32]Crazy lady livin' in a bag [01:43.81]Eatin' outta garbage pails used to be a fag hag [01:46.38]Said she'll dance the tango skip the light fandango [01:48.54]A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses [01:51.04]Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps [01:53.40]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home [01:55.48]She went to the city and got so so seditty [01:57.99]She had to get a pimp she couldn't make it on her own [02:00.94]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:05.59]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:10.80]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:11.74]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [02:14.95]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:16.14]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [02:18.83]My brother's doin' bad stole my mother's TV [02:21.66]Says she watches too much it's just not healthy [02:24.48]All My Children in the daytime Dallas at night [02:26.67]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight [02:29.47]The bill collectors they ring my phone [02:31.81]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:34.08]Got a bum education double-digit inflation [02:36.48]Can't take the train to the job there's a strike at the station [02:39.28]Neon King Kong standin' on my back [02:41.47]Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac [02:43.23] [02:44.04]A mid-range migraine cancered membrane [02:46.23]Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane [02:47.50]I swear I might hijack a plane [02:49.37]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:53.59]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:58.09]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:59.54]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [03:02.81]It's like a jungle sometimes [03:04.43]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [03:36.90]My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school [03:48.49]Cause the teacher's a jerk he must think I'm a fool [03:50.88]And all the kids smoke reefer I think it'd be cheaper [03:53.18]If I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper [03:55.90]I dance to the beat shuffle my feet [03:57.52]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [04:00.41]Cause it's all about money ain't a damn thing funny [04:02.67]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey [04:05.43]They pushed that girl in front of the train [04:07.57]Took her to the doctor sewed the arm on again [04:09.83]Stabbed that man right in his heart [04:12.52]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start [04:14.90]I can't walk through the park cause it's crazy after the dark [04:17.29]Keep my hand on the gun cause they got me on the run [04:19.86]I feel like an outlaw broke my last glass jar [04:22.00]Hear them say you want some more livin' on a seesaw [04:24.37]Don't push me [04:25.55] [04:26.42]Cause I'm close to the edge [04:29.40]I'm trying not to lose my head [04:33.65]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:36.66]How I keep from going under [04:37.92]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:40.72]How I keep from going under [04:42.09]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:45.91]How I keep from going under [04:48.86]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:50.63]How I keep from going under [04:53.58]A child is born with no state of mind [04:55.82]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:57.19]God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too [05:00.41]Because only God knows what you'll go through [05:02.74]You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate [05:04.55]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate [05:07.88]The places you play and where you stay [05:10.01]Looks like one great big alleyway [05:11.64]You'll admire all the number-book takers [05:14.65]Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money-makers [05:17.04]Drivin' big cars spendin' twenties and tens [05:19.66]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them huh [05:22.23]Smugglers scramblers burglars gamblers [05:24.43]Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers [05:26.69]You say I'm cool huh I'm no fool [05:29.20]But then you wind up droppin' outta high school [05:31.64]Now you're unemployed all non-void [05:34.15]Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd [05:36.66]Turned stick-up kid but look what you done did [05:38.93]Got sent up for a eight-year bid [05:41.31]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag [05:43.62]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [05:46.07]Bein' used and abused to serve like hell [05:48.27]Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell [05:50.97]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:53.23]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:55.41]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song [05:58.38]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so [06:00.75]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [06:05.51]I'm trying not to lose my head [06:09.39]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:11.65]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [06:13.92]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:16.83]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [06:20.54]Yo Mell you see that girl there [06:21.86]Yo Mell that sounded like Cowboy man [06:24.65]Yo Cool [06:25.24]Yo what's up Money [06:27.10]Yo where's Cooly an Raheim [06:29.90]So what's up for tonight y'all [06:32.59]We could go down to Phoenix man [06:34.11]We could go check out "Junebug" [06:35.49]Hey yo you know that girl Betty [06:36.86]Yeah man [06:37.55]Come on come all man [06:38.68] [06:39.85]That's what I heard man [06:41.29]Freeze you know this man [06:42.35]What's this What's goin' on [06:43.97]Get 'em up [06:44.60]We're (Right in there) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five [06:46.54]What is that a gang is not a gang [06:48.10] [06:49.38]Shut up I don't wanna hear your mouth Shut up [06:51.91]Get shut up you the problem car [06:54.88]Promble man