The Message chords by Randy Kaplan
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Verse 1
(G major) (C major) (G major) (D major)
(G major) Broken glass, (C major) everywhere
People (G major) pissin' on the (D major) stairs,
you know they just don't (G major) care
I can't take the smell,
I (C major) can't take the noise
Got no (G major) money to move on,
I guess I (D major) got no (G major) choice
Rat (C major) s in the front room,
(G major) roaches in the back
Junkies (D major) in the alley with the (G major) baseball bat
I (C major) tried to get away, but I
(G major) couldn't get far
Cause a (D major) man with a tow truck,
he pos (G major) sessed my (D major) car
Don't (C major) push me,
cause I'm (E minor) close to the (G major) edge
I'm (C major) trying not to (G major) lose (D major) my head
It's like a (C major) jungle sometimes
and it (G major) makes me wonder
How (C major) I keep from (G major) go ing under (D major)
Stand (G major) ing on the front stoop,
(C major) hanging out the window
(G major) Watching all the (D major) cars move by,
roaring as the (G major) breezes blow
Crazy lady liv (C major) ing in a bag
Eat (G major) ing out a garbage bin,
she (D major) used to be a (G major) fag
Said (C major) she'd dance the tango,
(G major) skip the life and dango
A (D major) zircon princess,
seemed to (G major) have lost her senses
Down (C major) at the peep show,
(G major) watching all the creeps
So (D major) she could tell the stories
to the (G major) girls back home
She (E minor) went to the city and (G major) got social security
She (D major) had to get a pimp,
she couldn't (G major) make it on her own
Don't (C major) push me,
cause I'm (E minor) close to the (G major) edge
(C major) I'm trying not to (G major) lose (D major) my head
It's like (C major) a jungle sometimes
and it (G major) makes me wonder
How (C major) I keep from (G major) go ing under (D major)
My (G major) brother's doing bad, stole
my (C major) mother's TV
Says she (G major) watches too much,
it's just (D major) not healthy
(G major) All my children in the daytime,
(C major) Dallas at night
Can't (G major) even see the (D major) game
or the Sugar Ray fight
The (C major) bill collectors, they (G major) ring my phone
And (D major) scam my wife when (G major) I'm not home
Got (C major) a bum education,
double (G major) di git inflation
Can take the (D major) train to the job,
there's a (G major) strike at the station
Neon (E minor) King Kong (G major) standing on my (D major) back,
can't stop to turn around
Broke (G major) my sacroiliac,
(A minor) I'm in range, migraine,
(A major) cancer membrane
Some (D major) times I think I'm going insane,
I swear I might hijack a plane
(C major) Don't push me,
cause I'm (E minor) close to the (G major) edge
I'm (C major) trying not to (G major) lose (D major) my head
It's like (C major) a jungle sometimes
and it (G major) makes me wonder
How (C major) I keep from (G major) going under (D major)
My son said, (G major) Daddy,
I don't (C major) want to go to school
The (G major) teacher's a (D major) jerk,
he must think I'm a (G major) fool
All the kids smoke reefer,
I (C major) think it'd be cheaper
If I (G major) just got a (D major) job,
learned to be a street (G major) sweeper
(C major) Dance to the beat, (G major) shuffle my feet
Wear (D major) a shirt and tie
and (G major) run with the creeps
Cause (C major) it's all about money,
ain't a (G major) damn thing (D major) funny
You got to have a con
in this (G major) land of milk and honey
They (E minor) pushed that girl in (G major) front of the train
Took (D major) her to the doctor,
saw the (G major) wrong one again
Stabbed (E minor) that man (G major) right in his heart
Gave (D major) him a chance over a
(G major) brand new (D major) start
I can't (C major) walk through the park
cause it's (G major) crazy after dark
Keep my (D major) hand on my gun
cause the (G major) guy me on the run
I (C major) feel like an outlaw,
(G major) broke my last glass jaw
(A major) Hate them say you want some more,
(D major) living on a seesaw
(C major) Don't push me cause I'm
(E minor) close to the (G major) edge
(C major) I'm trying not to (G major) lose (D major) my hand
It's like a (C major) jungle sometimes
and it (G major) makes me wonder
How (C major) I keep from (G major) going undone (D major)
A (G major) child's born with no (C major) state of mind
Blind (G major) to the (D major) ways of mankind
(G major) God's smiling on you
but he's (C major) frowning too
Cause (G major) only God (D major) knows what
you'll go through
(G major) You'll (C major) grow in the ghetto living
(G major) second rate
(D major) And your eyes will sing a
(G major) song called deep hate
The (C major) places you play and where (G major) you stay
Look (D major) like one great big (G major) al leyway
He'll ad (E minor) mire all the (G major) num
ber book (D major) takers
Thugs, pimps, and pushers,
and the (G major) big money makers
Driv (E minor) in' big cars, spendin'
(G major) twenties and (D major) tens
And you wanna grow
up to be (G major) just like them
Huh, (C major) smugglers, scramblers,
burglars, gamblers
Pick (G major) pocket, peddlers, (D major) even panhandlers
And you (E minor) say I'm cool, huh,
(G major) I'm no fool
Then you (A major) wind up drivin'
out of (D major) high school
Now you're (G major) runnin',
Floyd, (C major) all non -void
Walk (G major) in' (D major) round like your pretty boy
(G major) Floyd
Turned stick -up kid, look
(C major) what you done did
You (G major) got sent up for an (D major) eight -year bid
Now your (C major) manhood is took
and (G major) you're a Maytag
Spend the (D major) next two years
as (G major) an undercup of fag
Being (C major) used and abused to (G major) serve like (D major) hell
Till one day you was found
hung (G major) dead in a cell
It was (E minor) plain to see, your (G major) life was lost
You was (D major) cold and your body swung
(G major) back and forth
But (E minor) now your eyes sing the (G major) sad,
song
Of how you (A major) lived so fast
and (D major) died so young
Don't (C major) push me,
cause I'm (E minor) close to the (G major) edge,
I'm (C major) trying not to (G major) lose (D major) my head.
It's like (C major) a jungle sometimes
and it (G major) makes me wonder,
(C major) how I keep from (G major) going under. (D major)
The Message
Randy Kaplan
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