The Message (Re-Recorded / Remastered)-Grand Master Flash

[ti:The Message (Re-Recorded / Remastered)] [ar:Grand Master Flash] [al:Music Video Hit Songs (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message (Re-Recorded / Remastered) - Grand Master Flash [00:24.44]It's like jungle a sometimes it makes me wonder [00:26.20]How I keep from going under [00:27.46] [00:33.68]Broken glass everywhere [00:35.63]People pissing on the stairs' you know they just caredon [00:38.14]I can't take the smell I can't take the noise [00:40.28]Got no money to move out' I guess I got no choice [00:42.96]Rats in the front room' roaches in the back [00:45.26]Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat [00:47.55]I tried to get away' but I couldn't get far [00:49.73]Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car [00:52.40]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [00:57.23]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh [01:02.17]It's like a jungle sometimes it me makes wonder [01:04.01]How I keep from going under [01:05.25] [01:06.77]Standing on the front stoop' hangin' out the window [01:08.94]Watching all the cars go by' roaring as the breezes blow [01:11.60]Crazy lady livin' in her bag [01:13.57]Eating out of garbage piles' used to be a fag-hag [01:16.13]Such a nice to tango' skipped her life and then go [01:18.45]In search of her prince it seemed she lost her senses [01:20.81]Down at the peepshow' watching all the creeps [01:23.14]So she can tell the stories to the back girls home [01:25.54]She went to the city and social got security [01:27.81]She had to get a pimp' she couldn't it make on her own [01:30.51]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [01:35.08]I'm trying not to lose my head' seven [01:39.32] [01:40.13]It's jungle like a sometimes it makes me wonder [01:41.82]How I keep from going under [01:43.05] [01:44.68]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [01:46.49]How I keep from going under [01:47.77] [01:49.33]My brother's doing best on my mother's TV [01:51.29]She says: “You it watch too much' it's just not healthy ” [01:53.74]“All My Childrenin ” the daytime' “Dallas” at night [01:56.04]Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight [01:58.52]The bill collectors they ring my phone [02:01.01]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:03.16]Got a bum education' double-digit inflation [02:05.48]I can't take the train to the job' there's a strike at the station [02:08.04]Neon King Kong standin' on my back [02:10.34]Can't stop to turn broke around' my sacroiliac [02:12.11] [02:12.80]A mid-ranged migraine' cancered membrane [02:15.18]Sometimes I think I'm going might insane' hijack I a swear plane [02:17.72]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [02:22.43]I'm trying not to lose my head seven [02:26.66] [02:27.47]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [02:29.29]How I keep from going under [02:30.56] [02:32.12]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonde [02:33.97]How I keep from going under [02:35.30] [02:45.96]A child is born with no state of mind [02:48.27]Blind to the ways of mankind [02:50.60]God is smiling on you but he's frowning too [02:52.87]Because only God knows what you'll go through [02:55.33]You'll grow in the ghetto' living second rate [02:57.61]And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate [03:00.20]The places you're playin' where you stay [03:02.37]Looks like one great big alley way [03:04.77]You'll admire all the number book takers [03:07.33]Thugs' pimps' pushers and the big money makers [03:09.71]Driving big cars' spending twenties and tens [03:11.95]And you wonna grow up to be just like them' huh' [03:14.51]Smugglers' scrambles' burglars' gamblers [03:16.82]Pickpockets' peddlers even panhandlers [03:19.11]You say: “I'm cool' I'm no fool ” [03:21.28]But then you wind up dropping out of high school [03:23.69]Now you're unemployed' all non-void [03:26.30]Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd [03:28.46]Turned stickup kid' look what you've done did [03:30.95]Got sent up for a eight year bid [03:33.13]Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag [03:35.66]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [03:38.10]Being used and abused to serve like hell [03:40.13]Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell [03:42.69]It was plain to see that your life was lost [03:45.06]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [03:47.46]But now your eyes sing the sad' sad song [03:49.72]Of how you lived so fast and died so young [03:52.03]So don't push me cause I'm close to the edge [03:57.14]I'm trying not to lose my head' ah huh-huh-huh [04:01.95]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:03.91]How I keep from going under [04:05.23]Ah huh-huh-huh [04:06.68]It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder [04:08.67]How I keep from going under