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The Message chords by 
Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel 
N/A•
Key: C minor•BPM: 125
Verse 1
C
Survival
Am
Survival
the strong can survive
C
It's called survival
Am
Only the strong can survive
C
It's called survival
Am
In order to stay alive
C
It's called survival
Am
Survival, survival, survival
They smile in your face
and they talk behind your back
C
And when you give the story,
Am
it's never exact
C
Some say they're your friends,
but they really are not
Am
C
Because they're only out to try
Am
and get what you've got
C
Survival
Am
Only the strong can survive,
F
C
it's called survival
Am
Only the strong can survive,
C
it's called survival
Am
In order to stay alive,
C
it's called survival
Am
Survival, survival, survival
G
In jail they got a game,
Am
and they call it survival
They run it down to you
on your first arrival
G
They tell you what you can
Am
and what you cannot do
G
C
So if you ever go to jail, watch ya
Am
C
It's called survival
Am
Only the strong can survive
F
C
It's called survival
Am
C
Only the strong can survive,
F
C
it's called survival
Am
In order to stay alive,
C
it's called survival
Am
C
Survival, survival,
Am
C
survival
Am
C
Am
C
Am
G
I went looking for a job
C
Am
every day last week
C
But it turned into a crazy game
Am
of hide -and -seek
C
Because every place I seemed
Am
to look a job wasn't there
G
I might as well apply for food
C
Am
stamps or welfare
C
It's called survival
And only the strong can survive
F
C
It's called survival
Am
C
And only the strong can survive
It's called survival
In order to stay alive
Am
C
It's called survival,
survival, survival, survival
Am
People like Hercules,
G
C
Am
your body is strong,
G
but your mind is like the devil,
C
Am
your ideals are wrong.
C
You hurt people's feelings
and mess with their minds,
then have the nerve to call me brother
and wave the peace sign.
The young and the old,
they all hate your sight,
because of people like you,
Am
they're scared to walk in the night.
C
It's called survival,
if only the strong can survive,
F
C
it's called survival, if only the
Am
Strong can survive,
it's called survival
G
C
Am
In order to stay alive,
F
Am
it's called survival
G
Am
Survival, survival, survival
C
The problems of the world today
are bigger than life
You have recessions and depressions
F
Men are cheating on their wives
C
Babies born each morn
with part of their bodies gone
Because of some crazy drug
that their mothers was on
There's countries fighting, not uniting
Always putting each other down
F
C
Blacks and whites don't realize
that they're really pink and brown
Am
G
C
You got gun joke, cut joke,
Am
stress and strife
C
And looking out for number one
Am
is a way of life
It's called survival
And only the strong can survive
C
It's called survival
F
And only the strong can survive
C
It's called survival
Am
C
In order to stay alive
F
C
Am
C
It's called survival, survival, survival,
Am
C
Am
C
survival
Am
C
Am
G
Am
G
C
Am
G
You got to lock all your windows,
C
Am
chain up all your doors,
C
to protect what's inside of
Am
your houses and stores.
G
Beware of the food,
C
Am
it might be no good,
G
cause there's someone trying to poison
C
Am
the whole neighborhood. Ha!
G
Today they found something
C
Am
in somebody's store
G
They said kill ten people
C
Am
and hurt four more
G
They can't even trust a bill
C
Am
to make life easier
When there's sudden death
G
C
Am
on your roses' freezer
Survival
G
C
Am
Only the strong can survive,
it's called survival
G
C
Am
Only the strong can survive,
it's called survival
C
In order to stay alive,
F
C
it's called survival
Am
C
Survival, survival, survival
F
C
About to lose your mind
Because life is hard
Am
G
Yet you believe in everything
Am
But, God, those pretty women
C
Am
Lots of money, yeah, that's alright
But don't you ever forget
G
C
Am
The man with the mic
C
Now get a hold of yourself, man
Think positive
Am
Because that's definitely
G
C
Am
The only way to live
G
C
Am
Don't let your mind flow like water from a cup and don't
G
C
Am
you ever let me hear you say that you're giving up
C
it's called survival
Am
only the strong can survive
F
C
it's called survival
Am
only the strong can survive
F
C
it's called survival
Am
in order to stay alive
C
it's called survival
survival survival
F
C
remember a child is born
With no state of mind,
Am
C
Am
he was blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you,
Am
but he's frowning too
G
Because only God knows
what you'll go through
Am
Ha! Survival
G
C
Am
Only the strong can survive,
it's called survival
C
And only the strong can survive,
Am
it's called survival
G
C
Am
In order to stay alive,
C
it's called survival
Am
G
C
Subaru! Subaru!
Am
G
Am
Subaru!
Am
Am
Am
G
Am
C
Am
C
Am
C
Am
G
C
C
Am
C
C
I'll see you next time.
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