The Message-Let The Music Play

[ti:The Message] [ar:Let The Music Play] [al:Nostalgic Pleasures: Rocket Man, Hot Stuff, Honky Tonk Woman & Many More] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message - Let The Music Play [00:44.46]It's like jungle a sometimes it makes me wonder [00:46.33]How I keep from going under [00:47.63] [00:48.88]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [00:50.49]How I keep from going under [00:52.08] [01:03.44]Broken glass everywhere [01:05.34]People pissing on the stairs you know they just don't care [01:07.69]I can't take the smell' I can't take the noise [01:10.07]Got no money to move out' I guess I got no choice [01:12.56]Rats in the front room' roaches in the back [01:14.94]Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat [01:17.34]I tried to get away' but I couldn't get far [01:19.69]Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car [01:22.24]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [01:26.93]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh [01:31.26] [01:32.14]It's like a jungle sometimes it me makes wonder [01:33.93]How I keep from going under [01:35.45] [01:36.62]Standing on the front stoop' hangin' out the window [01:39.19]Watching all the cars go by roaring as the breezes blow [01:41.77]Crazy lady livin' in her bag [01:43.78]Eating out of garbage piles used to be a fag-hag [01:46.17]Search and test a tango skips the life and then go [01:48.63]To search a prince to see the last of senses [01:51.07]Down at the peepshow watching all the creeps [01:53.42]So she can tell the stories to the girls back home [01:55.71]She went to the city and got so so so ditty [01:58.19]She had to get a pimp she couldn't make it on her own [02:00.88]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:05.33]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:10.51]Its like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [02:12.49]How I keep from going under [02:13.76] [02:15.16]Its like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [02:17.08]How I keep from going under [02:18.41] [02:19.84]My brothers doing fast on my mothers t v [02:21.92]Says she watches to much is just not healthy [02:23.70] [02:24.25]All my children in the daytime dallas at night [02:26.67]Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight [02:28.75] [02:29.27]Bill collectors they ring my phone [02:31.72]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:33.85]Got a bum education double-digit inflation [02:36.14]Can't take the train to the job theres a strike at the station [02:39.00]Me on king kong standin on my back [02:41.28]Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac [02:43.76]Midrange migraine cancered membrane [02:46.25]Sometimes I think I'm going insane [02:47.23]I swear I might hijack a plane [02:48.78]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:53.36]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:58.44]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [03:00.41]How I keep from going under [03:01.58] [03:03.10]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [03:05.02]How I keep from going under [03:06.17] [03:46.33]My son said daddy I don't wanna go to school [03:48.49]Cause the teachers a jerk he must think I'm a fool [03:50.78]And all the kids smoke reefer I think itd be cheaper [03:53.24]If I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper [03:55.69]I dance to the beat shuffle my feet [03:58.10]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [04:00.50]Cause its all about money ain't a damn thing funny [04:02.99]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey [04:05.41]They push that girl in front of a train [04:07.77]Took her to a doctor sowed the arm on again [04:10.21]Stabbed that man right in his heart [04:12.56]Gave him a transplant before a brand new start [04:14.76]I can't walk through the park cause its crazy [04:16.59]After the dark [04:16.96]Keep my hand on the gun cause they got me on the run [04:19.66]I feel like an outlaw broke my last glass jaw [04:22.19]Hear them say you want some more livin on a see-saw [04:24.69]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [04:29.36]I'm trying not to lose my head [04:34.43]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:36.17]How I keep from going under [04:38.02] [04:39.55]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:41.21]How I keep from going under [04:42.29] [04:43.96]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:45.67]How I keep from going under [04:46.98] [04:48.76]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:50.41]How I keep from going under [04:51.75] [04:53.46]A child was born with no state of mind [04:55.48]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:57.03] [04:57.98]God is smiling on you but hes frowning too [05:00.37]Because only God knows what you'll go through [05:02.98]You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate [05:04.42] [05:05.11]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate [05:07.84]The places you play and where you stay [05:10.01]Looks like one great big alleyway [05:11.93] [05:12.55]You'll admire all the number-book takers [05:14.87]Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money-makers [05:16.78] [05:17.29]Drivin' big cars spendin' twenties and tens [05:19.58]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them huh [05:22.20]Smugglers scramblers burglars gamblers [05:24.57]Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers [05:26.96]You say I'm cool huh I'm no fool [05:29.17]But then you wind up droppin' outta high school [05:31.66]Now you're unemployed all non-void [05:34.18]Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd [05:36.36]Turned stick-up kid but look what you done did [05:38.91]Got sent up for a eight-year bid [05:41.27]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag [05:43.72]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [05:46.12]Bein' used and abused to serve like hell [05:48.43]Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell [05:50.81]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:53.15]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:55.65]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song [05:57.91]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so [06:00.55]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [06:05.43]I'm trying not to lose my head [06:10.26]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [06:12.09]How I keep from going under [06:15.45]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [06:17.18]How I keep from going under