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[ti:The Message] [ar:The Message] [al:Classic Covers Vol 4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message - The Message [00:47.99]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:48.90]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [00:50.97] [00:52.42]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:53.84]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [00:55.78] [01:06.92]Broken glass everywhere [01:08.66]People pissin' on the stairs [01:09.93]You know they just don't care [01:11.26]I can't take the smell can't take the noise [01:13.51]Got no money to move out [01:14.78]I guess I got no choice [01:16.08]Rats in the front room roaches in the back [01:18.39]Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat [01:20.73]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far [01:23.10]Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car [01:25.54]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [01:30.27]I'm trying not to lose my head [01:34.25] [01:35.39]It's like a jungle sometimes [01:36.57]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [01:38.54] [01:39.90]Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window [01:42.13]Watchin' all the cars go by roarin' as the breezes blow [01:44.95]Crazy lady livin' in a bag [01:46.91]Eatin' outta garbage pails used to be a fag hag [01:49.45]Said she'll dance the tango skip the light fandango [01:51.69]A zircon princess seemed to lost her senses [01:54.13]Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps [01:56.38]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home [01:58.75]She went to the city and got social security [02:01.14]She had to get a pimp [02:02.36]She couldn't make it on her own [02:03.79]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:08.36]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:12.17] [02:13.43]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:14.62]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [02:16.47] [02:18.21]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:19.26]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [02:21.25] [02:22.70]My brother's doin' bad stole my mother's tv [02:24.61]Says she watches too much it's just not healthy [02:26.97]All my children in the daytime dallas at night [02:29.52]Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight [02:32.01]The bill collectors they ring my phone [02:34.40]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:36.73]Got a bum education double digit inflation [02:38.92]Can't take the train to the job [02:40.39]There's a strike at the station [02:41.62]Neon king kong standin' on my back [02:43.87]Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac [02:46.26]A mid range migraine cancered membrane [02:48.74]Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane [02:49.98]I swear I might hijack a plane [02:51.16]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:55.85]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:59.63] [03:00.98]It's like a jungle sometimes [03:02.03]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [03:04.02] [03:05.65]It's like a jungle sometimes [03:06.76]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [03:08.76] [03:48.20]My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school [03:50.46]Cause the teacher's a jerk he must think I'm a fool [03:52.67]And all the kids smoke reefer I think it'd be cheaper [03:55.11]If I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper [03:57.48]Or dance to the beat shuffle my feet [03:59.70]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [04:02.18]Cause it's all about money ain't a damn thing funny [04:04.62]You got to have a con in [04:06.14]This land of milk and honey [04:07.26]They pushed that girl in front of the train [04:09.27]Took her to the doctor sewed her arm on again [04:11.62]Stabbed that man right in his heart [04:14.20]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start [04:16.47]I can't walk through the park cause it's crazy after dark [04:18.69]Keep my hand on my gun cause [04:20.24]They got me on the run [04:21.44]I feel like a outlaw broke my last glass jaw [04:23.66]Hear them say "you want some more " [04:25.15]Livin' on a see saw [04:26.11]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [04:30.82]I'm trying not to lose my head [04:34.91] [04:36.06]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:37.08]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:39.16] [04:40.84]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:42.06]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:43.80] [04:45.54]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:46.48]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:48.62] [04:50.39]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:51.31]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:53.31] [04:54.91]A child is born with no state of mind [04:56.83]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:58.92]God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too [05:01.59]Because only god knows what you'll go through [05:04.01]You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second rate [05:06.47]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate [05:08.88]The places you play and where you stay [05:10.99]Looks like one great big alleyway [05:13.45]You'll admire all the number book takers [05:15.98]Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money makers [05:18.40]Drivin' big cars spendin' twenties and tens [05:20.61]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them huh [05:23.39]Smugglers scramblers burglars gamblers [05:25.54]Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers [05:27.90]You say I'm cool huh I'm no fool [05:30.11]But then you wind up droppin' outta high school [05:32.54]Now you're unemployed all non void [05:35.06]Walkin' round like you're pretty boy floyd [05:37.15]Turned stick up kid but look what you done did [05:39.77]Got sent up for a eight year bid [05:42.11]Now your manhood is took and you're a maytag [05:44.33]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [05:46.84]Bein' used and abused to serve like hell [05:49.04]Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell [05:51.82]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:53.99]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:56.25]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song [05:58.52]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so [06:01.08]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [06:05.94]I'm trying not to lose my head [06:09.64] [06:10.68]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:12.05]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [06:14.03] [06:15.87]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:16.89]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under