Artist: Grandmaster Flash Album: The Message Song: The Message --------------- 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 pissing on the stairs, you know they just don t care (I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise (Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice (Rats in the front room, rodents in the back (Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat (I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far (Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car ( (Chorus: (Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge (I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh ([2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh] ([4th: say what?] (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 ( (Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window (Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow (Crazy lady livin' in a bag (Eating out of garbage pails, used to be a fag-hag (Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango (The Zircon Princess seemed to lost her senses (Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps (So she can tell the stories to the girls back home (She went to the city and got social security (She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own ( ([2nd Chorus] ( (My brother's doing best on my mother's TV (She says: You watch it 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 (Got a bum education, double-digit inflation (I can t take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station (Neon King Kong standin' on my back (Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacrophiliac (A mid-ranged migraine, cancered membrane (Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane ( ([3rd Chorus] ( (My son said: Daddy I don't wonna go to school (Cause the teacher's a jerk! , he must think I'm a fool (And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper (If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper (I ll dance to the beat, shuffle my feet (Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps (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 (They pushed that girl in front of the train (Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again (Stabbed that man right in his heart (Gave him a transplant for a brand new start (I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark (Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run (I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar (Hear them say: You want some more livin' on a seesaw?  ( ([4th Chorus] ( (A child is born with no state of mind (Blind to the ways of mankind (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, living second rate (And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate (The places you re playin , where you stay (Looks like one great big alley way (You'll admire all the number book takers (Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers (Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens (And you wonna grow up to be just like them, huh, (Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers (Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers (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 you're Pretty Boy Floyd (Turned stickup kid, look what you ve done did (Got sent up for a eight year bid (Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag (Spend the next two years as a undercover fag (Being used and abused to serve like hell (Till one day you was found hung dead in a 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 ( ([5th Chorus]