Message II (Survival) (Remix) chords by
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Survival,
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only the strong can survive
It's called survival,
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only the strong can survive
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Cm Cm 3
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It's called survival, in order to stay alive
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It's called survival, survival,
survival, survival
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They smile

Verse 2
in your face and
they talk behind your back
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And when you do the story,
it's never exact
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Some say, they're your friends
but they really are not
because they are only out to trying
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to get what you've got
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Survival,

Verse 3
only the strong can survive
It's called survival,
only the strong can survive
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It's called survival, in
order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival,
survival, survival

Verse 4
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In jail they got a game and
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they call it survival
They run it down to you
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on your first arrival
They tell you what you can and
what you cannot do,
so if you're ever going to jail, watch
your, umm, umm
It's called survival, only
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the strong can survive
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It's called survival,
only the strong can survive
It's called survival,
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in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival

Verse 5
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I went looking for a job,
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every day last week
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but it turned into a crazy game
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of "hide and seek"
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Because every place that I seemed to look,
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a job wasn't there
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I might as well apply for food-
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stamps or welfare
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It's called survival

Verse 6
and only
the strong can survive
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It's called survival and only
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the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
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It's called survival, survival,
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sur vival, survival

Verse 7
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Like Hercules, you body is strong
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but your mind is like the Devil,
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your ideals are wrong
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You hurt people's feelings and
mess with their minds
Didn't have the nerve to call me
brother or wave the big sign
The young and the old,
they all hate your sight because of people like you,
they're scared to walk in the night
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It's called survival

Verse 8
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and only
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the strong can survive
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It's called survival and only
the strong can survive
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It's called survival in order to stay alive
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It's called survival, survival,
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survival, survival
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The problems

Verse 9
of the world today are
bigger than live
You have recessions and depressions,
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men are cheating on their wives
Babies born each morn' with parts
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of their bod ies gone
because of some crazy drug that
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their mother was on
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This country is fightin' not unitin',
always putting each other down
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Blacks and whites don't realize that
they're really pink and brown
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You got gun tootin' cut- throats,
stress and strife
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and looking out for number
one is a way of live

Verse 10
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It's called survival and only
the strong can survive
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It's called survival and only
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the strong can survive
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It's called survival in
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order to  stay alive
It's called survival, survival,
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survival, survival
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You've got to

Verse 11
lock all your windows,
chain up all your doors
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to protect what's inside
of your houses or stores
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Beware of the food, it might be no good
'cause there's someone trying to
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poison the whole neighbourhood
Today they found something
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that somebody stored
They said, "He killed ten people
and hurt four more"
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They can't even trust
the pill to make live easier
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when there's sudden death
on your roses freezer

Verse 12
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Survival, only the strong can survive
It's called survival,
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only the strong can survive
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It's called survival,
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in order to stay alive
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It's called survival, survival,
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survival, survival

Verse 13
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About to lose your mind because
live is hard
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and yet you believe in everything
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but god
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Those pretty women lost of money,
yeah, that's alright
but don't you ever forget
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the man with the might
Now get a hold of yourself man,
think positive
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because that's definitely
the only way to live
Don't let you mind flow,
like water from a cup
and don't you ever let me hear
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you say that you're giving up

Verse 14
It's called survival,
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only the strong can survive
It's called survival,
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only the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival,

Verse 15
survival
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Remember: a child is born with
no state of mind
He was 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

Verse 16
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Survival, only the strong
can survive
It's called survival and
only the strong can survive
It's called survival in order to stay alive
It's called survival, survival, survival, survival

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