The Message II (Survival) chords by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
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Verse 1
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Survival
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Survival
the strong can survive,
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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
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Survival, survival, survival
They smile in your face and
they talk behind your back
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And when you give the story,
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it's never exact
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Some say they're your friends,
but they really are not
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Because they're only out to try
and get what you've got
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Survival
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Only the strong can survive,
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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
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Survival, survival, survival
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In jail they got a game,
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and they call it survival
They run it down to you
on your first arrival
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They tell you what you can
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and what you cannot do
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So if you ever go to jail, watch ya
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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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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, survival,
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survival
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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 I seemed
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to look 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
And only the strong can survive
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It's called survival
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And 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
People like
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Hercules, your body is strong,
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but your mind is like the devil, your ideals
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are wrong.
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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, they're
scared to walk in the night.
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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, it's called survival
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In order to stay alive,
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it's called survival
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Survival, survival, survival
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The problems of the world
today are bigger than life
You have recessions and depressions
Men are cheating on their wives
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
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Blacks and whites don't realize that
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they're really pink and brown
You've got gun joke,
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cut joke, stress and strife
And looking out for number
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one is a way of life
It's called survival
And only the strong can survive
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It's called survival
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And 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, survival,
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survival
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You got to lock all your windows, chain up all your doors,
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to protect what's inside of
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your houses and stores.
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Beware of the food, it might be no good,
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cause there's someone trying to poison the whole
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neighborhood.
Ha!
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Today they found something
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in somebody's store
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They said kill ten people
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an d hurt four more
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They can't even trust a bill
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to make life easier
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When there's sudden death on
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your roses' freezer
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
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In order to stay alive,
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it's called survival
Survival, survival, survival
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Bout to lose your mind
because life is hard
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Yet you believe in everything
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But,
God, those pretty women, lots of money
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Yeah, that's alright
But don't you ever forget
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the man with the mic
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Now get a hold of yourself, man
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And think positive because
that's definitely
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The only way to live
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Don't let your mind flow like
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water from a cup
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And don't you ever let me hear you
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say that you're giving up
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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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Only the strong can survive
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It's called survival
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In or der to stay alive
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It's called survival, survival, survival
Remember,
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a child was born with no state of mind
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He was blind to the ways of mankind
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God is smiling on you,
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but he's frowning, too
Because only
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God knows what you'll go through
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Survival
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Only the strong can survive,
it's called survival
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And 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
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Survival, survival, survival
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I'm
You
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The Message II (Survival)
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
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