The Message-Renegade Stars

[ti:The Message] [ar:Renegade Stars] [al:Banned: This Record Cannot Be Broadcast] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message - Renegade Stars [00:44.89]It's like jungle a sometimes it makes me wonder [00:46.60]How I keep from going under [00:49.24]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [00:51.10]How I keep from going under [01:03.58]Broken glass everywhere [01:05.31]People pissing on the stairs' you know t they just caredon [01:07.34] [01:07.91]I can't take the smell' I can't take the noise [01:10.15]Got no money to move out' I guess I got no choice [01:12.72]Rats in the front room' roaches in the back [01:14.96]Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat [01:17.44]I tried to get away' but I couldn't get far [01:19.79]Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car [01:22.26]Don't push me cause to the I'm close edge [01:27.03]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh [01:32.38]It's like a jungle sometimes it me makes wonder [01:34.19]How I keep from going under [01:36.73]Standing on the front stoop' hangin' out the window [01:39.16]Watching all the cars go by' roaring as the breezes blow [01:41.80]Crazy lady livin' in her bag [01:43.85]Eating out of garbage piles' used to be a fag-hag [01:46.37]Such a nice to tango' skipped her life and then go [01:48.80]In search of her prince it seemed she lost her senses [01:51.03]Down at the peepshow' watching all the creeps [01:53.35]So she can tell the stories to the back girls home [01:55.73]She went to the city and social got security [01:58.29]She had to get a pimp' she couldn't it make on her own [02:00.98]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:05.60]I'm trying not to lose ah my head' huh-huh-huh [02:10.74]It's jungle like a sometimes it makes me wonder [02:12.54]Keep from How going I under [02:15.55]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [02:17.35]How I keep from going under [02:19.95]My brother's doing best on my mother's TV [02:22.15]She says: “You it watch too much' it's just not healthy ” [02:24.77]“All My Childrenin ” the daytime' “Dallas” at night [02:27.30]Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight [02:29.52]The bill collectors they ring my phone [02:31.82]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:34.05]Got a bum education' double-digit inflation [02:36.45]I can't take the train to the job' there's a strike at the station [02:39.42]Neon King Kong standin' on my back [02:41.38]Can't stop to turn broke around' my sacroiliac [02:43.67]A mid-ranged migraine' cancered membrane [02:46.24]Sometimes I think I I'm going might insane' [02:47.89]Hijack I a swear plane [02:49.21]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:53.56]I'm trying not to lose headmy [02:58.63]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [03:00.68]How I keep from going under [03:03.45]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonde [03:05.29]How I keep from going under [03:46.41]My son said: ”Daddy I don't wonna go to school [03:48.57]Cause the teacher's a jerk ”' he must think I'm a fool [03:51.02]And all the kids smoke reefer' I think it'd be cheaper [03:53.33]If I just got a job' learned to be a street sweeper [03:55.97]I'll dance to the beat' shuffle my feet [03:58.08]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [04:00.48]Cause it's all about money' ain't a damn thing funny [04:03.04]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey [04:05.71]They pushed that girl in front of the train [04:07.71]Took her to the doctor' sewed her arm on again [04:10.16]Stabbed that man right in his heart [04:12.58]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start [04:14.97]I can't walk through the park' cause it's crazy after dark [04:17.24]Keep my hand on my gun' cause me they on got the run [04:20.07]I feel like a outlaw' broke my last glass jar [04:22.30]Hear them say: “You want some more livin' on a seesaw ” [04:25.13]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [04:29.56]I'm trying not lose to my head [04:33.48] [04:34.57]It's like a jungle sometimes me wonderit makes [04:36.34]How I keep from going under [04:39.46]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonde [04:41.38]How I keep from going under [04:44.17]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:46.13]How I keep from going under [04:48.96]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:50.79]How I keep from going under [04:53.51]A child is born with no state of mind [04:55.91]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:57.99]God is smiling on you but he's frowning too [05:00.35]Because only God knows what you'll go through [05:02.87]You'll grow in the ghetto' living second rate [05:05.11]And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate [05:07.75]The places you're playin'' where you stay [05:10.04]Looks like one great big alley way [05:12.38]You'll admire all the number book takers [05:14.92]Thugs' pimps' pushers and the big money makers [05:17.26]Driving big cars' spending twenties and tens [05:19.67]And you wonna grow up to be just like them' huh' [05:22.24]Smugglers' scrambles' burglars' gamblers [05:24.48]Pickpockets' peddlers even panhandlers [05:26.84]You say: “I'm cool' I'm no fool ” [05:29.44]But then you wind up dropping out of high school [05:31.67]Now you're unemployed' all non-void [05:34.22]Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd [05:36.55]Turned stickup kid' look what you've done did [05:39.01]Got sent up for a eight year bid [05:41.31]Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag [05:43.70]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [05:46.02]Being used and abused to serve like hell [05:48.35]Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell [05:50.83]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:53.10]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:55.60]But now your eyes sing the sad' sad song [05:58.04]Of how you lived so fast and died so young [06:00.24]Push Don't me cause I'm close to the edge [06:05.52]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh [06:10.66]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [06:12.56]How I keep underfrom going [06:14.20] [06:15.50]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [06:17.37]How I keep from going under