TheMessage

The Message - Grandmaster Flash/The Furious Five

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

My brother's doing bad stole my mother's TV

Says she watches too much it's just not healthy

All my children in the daytime Dallas at night

Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight

The bill collectors they ring my phone

And scare my wife when I'm not home

Got a bum education double digit inflation

Can't take the train to the job there's a strike at the station

Neon King Kong standing on my back

Can't stop to turn around broke my sacroiliac

A mid range migraine cancered membrane

Sometimes I think I'm going insane

I swear I might hijack a plane

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

A child is born with no state of mind

Blind to the ways of mankind

God is smiling on you but he's frowning too

Because only God knows what you'll go through

You'll grow in the ghetto living second rate

And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate

The places you play and where you stay

Looks like one great big alleyway

You'll admire all the number book takers

Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money makers

Driving big cars spending twenties and tens

And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them huh

Smugglers scramblers burglars gamblers

Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers

You say I'm cool huh I'm no fool

But then you wind up dropping outta high school

Now you're unemployed all null and void

Walking 'round like you're pretty boy floyd

Turned stick up kid but look what you done did

Got sent up for a eight year bid

Now your manhood is took and you're a maytag

Spend the next two years as a undercover fag

Being used and abused to serve like hell

'Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell

But now your eyes sing the sad sad song

Of how you lived so fast and died so young so

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under