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The Message 2 easy guitar chords by
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash

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Intro 1
Em


Verse 1
Em

It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how

I keep
Verse 2

from goin' under
Em


Broken glass everywhere

People pissin' on the stairs,

you know they just don't care

I can't take the smell,

can't take the noise

Got no money to move out,

I guess I got no choice

Rats in the front room,

roaches in the back

Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat

I tried to get away but

I couldn't get far

'Cause a man with a tow truck
Verse 3

repossessed my car
Em
Am
Em

Don't push me 'cause

I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head,

ha- ha- ha- ha

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I

keep from goin' under
Verse 4
Em

Standin' on the front stoop,

hangin' out the window

Watchin' all the cars go by,

roarin' as the breezes blow

Crazy lady, livin' in a bag

Eatin' outta garbage pails,

used to be a fag hag

Said she'll dance the tango,

skip the light fandango

A Zircon princess seemed

to lost her senses

Down at the peep show

watchin' all the creeps

So she can tell her stories to

the girls back home
Am

She went to the city and got
Em

so- so siditty

She had to get a pimp, she couldn't
Verse 5

make it on her own
Em

Don't push me 'cause

I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head,

say what?

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I

keep from goin' under
Am

It's like a jungle sometimes
Em

It makes me wonder how I keep from
Verse 6

goin' under
Em

My brother's doin' bad,

stole my mother's TV

Says she watches too much,

it's just not healthy
Am

All My Children in the daytime,
Em

Dallas at night

Can't even see the game

or the Sugar Ray fight
Am

The bill collectors, they ring my phone
Em

Scares my wife when I'm not home
Am

Got a bum education,
Em

double- digit inflation
C

Can't take the train to the job,
Em

there's a strike at the station

Neon King Kong standin' on my back

Can't stop to turn around,

broke my sacroiliac
Am

A mid- range migraine,
Em

cancered membrane
Am

Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane
Em

I swear I might hijack a plane
Verse 7
Em
Am
Em

Don't push me 'cause

I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head,

say what?

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I

keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes
C

It makes me wonder how I
Em

keep from goin' under
Verse 8
Em


A child is born with no state of mind

Blind to the ways of mankind

God is smilin' on you but

he's frownin' too

Because only God knows what

you'll go through

You'll grow in the ghetto livin'

second- rate

And your eyes will sing

a song of 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

Drivin' big cars,

spendin' 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 droppin'

outta high school

Now you're unemployed,

all non- void

Walkin' round like

you're Pretty Boy Floyd

Turned stick- up kid,
Am
Em

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

Bein' used and abused to serve like hell

'Til one day, you was found

hung dead in the cell

It was plain to see that

your life was lost

You was cold and your body

swung back and forth

But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song

Of how you lived so fast and died so young
Verse 9
Em

So, don't push me 'cause

I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head,

ha- ha- ha- ha

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under,

ha- ha- ha- ha

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how
Outro 1

I keep from goin' under
Em

Em

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