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The Message by Grandmaster Flash |
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It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder |
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How I keep from going under |
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It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder |
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How I keep from going under |
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Broken glass everywhere |
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People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don' t care |
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I can' t take the smell, I can' t take the noise |
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Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice |
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Rats in the front room, roaches in the back |
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Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat |
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I tried to get away, but I couldn' t get far |
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Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car |
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Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge |
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I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh |
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2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh |
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It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder |
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How I keep from going under |
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Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window |
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Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow |
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4th: say what? |
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Crazy lady livin' in her bag |
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Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag |
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Such a nice to tango, skipped her life and then go |
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In search of her prince it seemed she lost her senses |
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Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps |
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So she can tell the stories to the girls back home |
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She went to the city and got social security |
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She had to get a pimp, she couldn' t make it on her own |
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Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge |
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I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh |
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2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh |
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4th: say what? |
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It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder |
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How I keep from going under |
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My brother' s doing best on my mother' s TV |
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She says: " You watch it too much, it' s just not healthy! " |
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" All My Children" in the daytime, " Dallas" at night |
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Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight |
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The bill collectors they ring my phone |
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And scare my wife when I' m not home |
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Got a bum education, double-digit inflation |
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I can' t take the train to the job, there' s a strike at the station |
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Neon King Kong standin' on my back |
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Can' t stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac |
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A mid-ranged migraine, cancered membrane |
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Sometimes I think I' m going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane |
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Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge |
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I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh |
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2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh |
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4th: say what? |
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It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder |
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How I keep from going under |
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My son said: " Daddy I don' t wonna go to school |
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Cause the teacher' s a jerk! ", he must think I' m a fool |
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And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it' d be cheaper |
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If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper |
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I' ll dance to the beat, shuffle my feet |
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Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps |
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Cause it' s all about money, ain' t a damn thing funny |
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You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey |
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They pushed that girl in front of the train |
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Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again |
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Stabbed that man right in his heart |
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Gave him a transplant for a brand new start |
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I can' t walk through the park, cause it' s crazy after dark |
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Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run |
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I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar |
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Hear them say: " You want some more livin' on a seesaw? " |
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Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge |
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I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh |
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2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh |
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4th: say what? |
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It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder |
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How I keep from going under |
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A child is born with no state of mind |
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Blind to the ways of mankind |
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God is smiling on you but he' s frowning too |
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Because only God knows what you' ll go through |
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You' ll grow in the ghetto, living second rate |
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And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate |
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The places you' re playin', where you stay |
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Looks like one great big alley way |
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You' ll admire all the number book takers |
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Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers |
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Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens |
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And you wonna grow up to be just like them, huh, |
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Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers |
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Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers |
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You say: " I' m cool, I' m no fool! " |
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But then you wind up dropping out of high school |
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Now you' re unemployed, all non-void |
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Walking ' round like you' re Pretty Boy Floyd |
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Turned stickup kid, look what you' ve done did |
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Got sent up for a eight year bid |
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Now your manhood is took and you' re a may tag |
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Spend the next two years as a undercover fag |
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Being used and abused to serve like hell |
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Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell |
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It was plain to see that your life was lost |
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You was cold and your body swung back and forth |
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But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song |
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Of how you lived so fast and died so young |
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Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge |
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I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh |
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2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh |
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4th: say what? |
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It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder |
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How I keep from going under |