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[ti:The Message] [ar:Hip Hop Masters] [al:Essential Hip Hop Classics - The Top 30 Best Ever HipHop Hits Of All Time !] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message - Hip Hop Masters [00:43.55]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [00:45.38]How I keep from going under [00:47.14] [00:48.02]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [00:49.96]How I keep from going under [00:51.30] [01:02.50]Broken glass everywhere [01:04.27]People pissing on the stairs [01:05.46]You know they just don't care [01:06.76]I can't take the smell I can't take the noise [01:08.79]Got no money to move out I guess I got no choice [01:11.32]Rats in the front room roaches in the back [01:13.72]Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat [01:15.86]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far [01:18.16]Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car [01:20.54]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [01:25.41]I'm trying not to lose my head (uh huh huh hu) [01:30.04]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [01:32.43]How I keep from going under [01:34.55]Standing on the front stoop hangin' out the window [01:36.73]Watching all the cars go by roaring as the breezes blow [01:39.64]Crazy lady livin' in a bag [01:41.78]Eating out of garbage pales used to be a fag-hag [01:44.14]Search and test a tango skips the life and then go [01:46.62]To search a prince to see the last of senses [01:48.85]Down at the peepshow watching all the creeps [01:50.91]So she can tell the stories to the girls back home [01:53.57]She went to the city and got Social Security [01:55.85]She had to get a pimp [01:57.21]She couldn't make it on her own [01:58.66]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:02.96]I'm trying not to lose my head (uh huh huh hu) [02:07.83]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [02:10.16]How I keep from going under [02:12.19]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [02:14.74]How I keep from goin' under [02:16.29] [02:16.90]My brother's doing fast on my mother's T V [02:19.18]Says she watches to much is just not healthy [02:21.47]All my children in the daytime Dallas at night [02:23.71]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight [02:26.32]Bill collectors they ring my phone [02:28.51]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:30.83]Got a bum education double-digit inflation [02:32.97]Can't take the train to the job there's a strike at the station [02:35.86]Neon King Kong standin' on my back [02:38.02]Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac [02:40.47]Midrange migraine cancered membrane [02:42.54]Sometimes I think I'm going insane [02:43.64]I swear I might hijack a plane [02:45.33]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:49.49]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:53.47] [02:54.21]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [02:56.78]How I keep from going under [02:58.33] [02:58.85]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [03:01.20]How I keep from going under [03:02.91] [03:13.23]My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school [03:15.33]Cause the teacher's a jerk he must think I'm a fool [03:17.65]And all the kids smoke reefer I think it'd be cheaper [03:19.96]If I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper [03:22.52]I dance to the beat shuffle my feet [03:24.46]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [03:27.05]Cause it's all about money ain't a damn thing funny [03:29.43]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey [03:32.01]They push that girl in front of a train [03:33.97]Took her to a doctor sowed the arm on again [03:36.25]Stabbed that man right in his heart [03:38.54]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start [03:40.99]I can't walk through the park [03:42.40]Cause it's crazy after the dark [03:43.63]Keep my hand on the gun cause they got me on the run [03:46.24]I feel like an outlaw broke my last glass jar [03:48.13]Hear them say you want some more livin' on a seesaw [03:50.58]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [03:54.95]I'm trying not to lose my head [03:59.19]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:02.32]How I keep from going under [04:03.85] [04:04.37]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:06.57]How I keep from going under [04:08.21] [04:09.11]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:11.21]How I keep from going under [04:12.93] [04:13.64]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:16.05]How I keep from going under [04:17.63] [04:18.54]A child was born with no state of mind [04:20.79]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:23.04]God is smiling on you but he's frownin too [04:25.17]Because only god knows what you go through [04:27.54]You grow in the ghetto living second rate [04:29.87]And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate [04:32.45]The places you play and where you stay [04:34.51]Looks like one great big alley way [04:36.89]You'll admire all the number book takers [04:39.34]Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money makers [04:42.09]Driving big cars spending twenties and tens [04:44.07]And you wanna grow up to be just like them [04:46.32]Smugglers scrambles burglars gamblers [04:48.72]Pickpockets peddlers even pan-handlers [04:50.95]You say I'm cool I'm no fool [04:53.05]But then you wind up dropping out of high school [04:55.51]Now you're unemployed all null 'n' void [04:58.20]Walking around like you're pretty boy Floyd [05:00.42]Turned stickup kid look what you done did [05:02.73]Got sent up for a eight year bid [05:05.15]Now your manhood is took and you're a "Maytag" [05:07.18]Spend the next two years as an undercover fag [05:09.71]Being used and abused and served like hell [05:12.04]Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell [05:14.74]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:16.88]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:19.10]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song [05:21.27]Of how you lived so fast and died so young [05:23.64]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [05:28.33]I'm trying not to lose my head [05:32.40] [05:33.06]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [05:35.85]How I keep from going under [05:37.83]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [05:40.22]How I keep from going under