The Message-Melle Mel/Grandmaster Flash

[ti:The Message] [ar:Grandmaster Flash] [al:The Blender Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message - Melle Mel/Grandmaster Flash [00:48.65]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:49.96]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [00:51.83] [01:02.93]Broken glass everywhere [01:04.85]People pissin' on the stairs you know they just don't care [01:07.10]I can't take the smell can't take the noise [01:09.40]Got no money to move out I guess I got no choice [01:11.90]Rats in the front room roaches in the back [01:14.27]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat [01:16.64]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far [01:18.89]'Cuz a man with a tow truck repossessed my car [01:21.70]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [01:26.27]I'm trying not to lose my head [01:30.38]Uh huh ha ha ha [01:31.81]It's like a jungle sometimes [01:32.75]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [01:34.69] [01:35.87]Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window [01:38.17]Watchin' all the cars go by roarin' as the breezes blow [01:40.86]Crazy lady livin' in a bag [01:43.11]Eatin' outta garbage pails used to be a fag hag [01:45.61]Said she'll dance the tango skip the light fandango [01:47.79]A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses [01:50.28]Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps [01:52.72]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home [01:54.71]She went to the city and got social security [01:57.21]She had to get a pimp she couldn't make it on her own [02:00.02]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [02:04.65]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:08.64]Uh huh ha ha ha [02:09.65]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:10.96]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [02:12.83] [02:14.33]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:15.52]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [02:17.20] [02:18.76]My brother's doin' bad stole my mother's TV [02:20.88]Says she watches too much it's just not healthy [02:23.07]"All My Children" in the daytime "Dallas" at night [02:26.00]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight [02:28.43]The bill collectors they ring my phone [02:30.62]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:32.93]Got a bum education double-digit inflation [02:35.17]Can't take the train to the job there's a strike at the station [02:37.92]Neon King Kong standin' on my back [02:40.09]Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac [02:42.78]A mid-range migraine cancered membrane [02:45.21]Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane [02:46.29]I swear I might hijack a plane [02:47.73]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [02:51.97] [02:52.60]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:56.04] [02:57.35]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:58.60]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [03:00.73] [03:02.10]It's like a jungle sometimes [03:03.22]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [03:05.15] [03:44.72]My son said Daddy I don't wanna go to school [03:47.03]'Cuz the teacher's a jerk he must think I'm a fool [03:49.40]And all the kids smoke reefer I think it'd be cheaper [03:51.71]If I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper [03:53.89]Or dance to the beat shuffle my feet [03:56.51]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [03:58.82]'Cuz it's all about money ain't a damn thing funny [04:01.25]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey [04:03.69]They pushed that girl in front of the train [04:05.87]Took her to the doctor sewed her arm on again [04:08.61]Stabbed that man right in his heart [04:10.74]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start [04:13.24]I can't walk through the park 'cuz it's crazy after dark [04:15.67]Keep my hand on my gun 'cuz they got me on the run [04:17.72]I feel like a outlaw broke my last glass jaw [04:20.28]Hear them say "You want some more " [04:21.78]Livin' on a see-saw [04:23.02]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [04:27.26] [04:27.89]I'm trying not to lose my head [04:31.57]Say what [04:32.07] [04:32.88]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:33.63]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:36.06] [04:37.44]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:38.44]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:40.49] [04:42.30]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:43.24]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:45.49] [04:47.05]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:47.92]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [04:49.79] [04:51.48]A child is born with no state of mind [04:53.79]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:55.98]God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too [04:58.34]Because only God knows what you'll go through [05:00.66]You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate [05:03.16]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate [05:05.90]The places you play and where you stay [05:07.65]Looks like one great big alleyway [05:10.21]You'll admire all the number-book takers [05:12.96]Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money-makers [05:15.08]Drivin' big cars spendin' twenties and tens [05:17.63]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them huh [05:20.07]Smugglers scramblers burglars gamblers [05:22.43]Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers [05:24.81]You say I'm cool huh I'm no fool [05:26.99]But then you wind up droppin' outta high school [05:29.37]Now you're unemployed all non-void [05:31.86]Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd [05:34.05]Turned stick-up kid but look what you done did [05:36.42]Got sent up for a eight-year bid [05:38.97]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag [05:41.40]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [05:43.72]Bein' used and abused to serve like hell [05:45.78]'Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell [05:48.46]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:51.02]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:53.15]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song [05:55.25]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so [05:58.04]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [06:02.91]I'm trying not to lose my head [06:06.85]Uh huh huh huh huh [06:08.17]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:09.11]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [06:11.11]Huh uh huh huh huh huh [06:12.73]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:13.73]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under [06:15.66]Huh uh huh huh huh huh