The Message (Vocal) chords by Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill gang, The Furious Five
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Verse 1
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It's like a jungle sometimes,
it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under.
It's like a jungle sometimes,
it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under.
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
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Rats in the front,
rural roaders 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
repossessed my car
Don't push me
cause I'm close to the edge
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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 going under
Standing on the front scoop
Hanging out the window
Watching all the cars go by
Roaring as the breezes blow
A crazy lady living in a bag
Eating out of garbage pails
Used to be a fag hag
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Said she danced to Tango
Skipped to Life and Dango
A sick -on princess seemed to
lost her senses
Down at the peep show,
watching all the creeps
So she could tell her stories
to the girls back home
She went to the city
and got so -so sedated
She had to get a pimp,
she couldn't make it on her own
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Don't push me,
cause I'm close to the edge
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Em
I'm trying not to lose my head
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Em
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
My brother's doing fast
on my mother's TV
says she watches too much
It's just not healthy
all my children in the daytime
Dallas at night
can't even see the game
or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors they ring my phone
and scare my wife when I'm not home
I've got a bum education
double -digit inflation
can't take the train to the job.
There's a strike at the station
I'm on King Kong standing on my back
can't stop to turn around
broke my sacroiliac
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a mid -range migraine cancer
Sometimes I think I'm going insane,
I swear I might hijack a plane!
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Don't push me,
cause I'm close to the edge
Bm
Em
I'm trying not to lose my head
Bm
Em
It's like a jungle sometimes,
it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
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It's like a jungle sometimes,
Em
it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
I'm going to show you I'm
My son said, Daddy,
I don't want to go to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk,
he must think I'm a fool
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And all the kids smoke reefer,
I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got a job,
learned to be a street sweeper
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I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and tie
and run with the creeps
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Cause it's all about money,
ain't a damn thing funny
You got to have a con
in this land of milk and honey
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They pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor,
sewed her arm on again
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Stabbed that man right in his heart
Gave him a transplant
Am
for a brand new start
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I can't walk through the park,
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cause it's crazy after dark
Keep my hand on my gun,
cause they got me on the run
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I feel like an outlaw,
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broke my last last jaw
Hear them say, you want some more?
Living on a seesaw
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Don't push me,
Em
cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head
You said what?
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It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
Bm
Em
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
Bm
Em
It's like a jungle sometimes,
it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes,
it makes me wonder
how I keep from going under
A child is born with no state of mind,
blind to the ways of mankind
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God is smiling on you,
but he's frowning too,
because only God knows what you'll go through
You'll grow in the ghetto,
live in second rate,
and your eyes will sing a
song of deep hate
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The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alleyway
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You'll admire all the
number book takers
Thugs, pimps and pushers and
the big money makers
Driving big cars,
spending twenties and tens
And you want to grow up to
be just like them
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Smugglers, scramblers,
burglars, gamblers
Pickpocket, peddlers, even panhandlers
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You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
But then you wind up dropping
out of high school
Now you're unemployed,
all non -void
Walking round like your
pretty boy Floyd
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Turned stick -up kid,
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 an undercover fag
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Being used and abused to serve like hell
Till one day you was found
hung dead in a cell
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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,
song
Of how you lived so fast
and died so young
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So don't push me,
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cause I'm close to the edge
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I'm trying not to lose my head
Bm
Ha ha ha ha ha
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It's like a jungle sometimes
Em
It makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Em
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Yo
Mel, you see that girl, man?
Yeah, man
Yo, that sound like Cowboy, man
What's up, fool?
Yo, what's up, buddy? Yo
Hey, where's Quill
and Raheem at?
They upstairs cooling off
So what's up for the night, yo?
Yo, we can go down to Fever,
man
Go check out Junebug, man
Hey, yo, you know that girl Betty?
Yeah, man.
My mom's got laws, man.
What? Yeah, man.
She got hurt.
When did this happen?
When did this happen?
All right, freeze.
Don't nobody move nothing.
Y know what this is. Get him up. Get him up.
Oh, man, we down with Grandmaster
Flash
and the Feminist Feminist?
What is that, a gang?
No, Just shut up.
I don't want hear your mouth.
Excuse me, officer.
Officer, what's the problem?
Ain't no beautiful problem.
Beautiful.
Yo, yo, you an answer,
Get in the car.
Get in the car. said, get in the car.
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