The Message(Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five featuring Melle Mel & Duke Bootee) - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five.mp3

[00:00.00] It's like a jungle sometimes
[00:43.89]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under
[00:47.70][Verse 1 ]
[01:01.41]Broken glass everywhere
[01:03.15]People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care
[01:05.64]I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
[01:07.83]Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:10.35]Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:12.63]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:14.97]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far
[01:17.16]Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
[01:19.50][Hook]
[01:19.80]Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[01:24.42]I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:29.31]It's like a jungle sometimes
[01:30.54]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under
[01:32.58][Verse 2]
[01:33.69]Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window
[01:36.09]Watchin' all the cars go by, roarin' as the breezes blow
[01:38.73]Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
[01:40.68]Eatin' outta garbage pails, used to be a fag hag
[01:43.08]Said she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango
[01:45.36]A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses
[01:47.76]Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps
[01:49.92]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home
[01:52.29]She went to the city and got so so seditty
[01:54.54]She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:59.37][ Hook ]
[02:08.76][Verse 3 ]
[02:15.63]My brother's doin' bad, stole my mother's TV
[02:17.73]Says she watches too much, it's just not healthy
[02:20.10]All My Children in the daytime, Dallas at night
[02:22.38]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:24.96]The bill collectors, they ring my phone
[02:27.24]And scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:29.40]Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:31.68]Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:34.38]Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:36.45]Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:39.00]A mid-range migraine, cancered membrane
[02:41.31]Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane
[02:42.51]I swear I might hijack a plane!
[02:46.02][ Hook ]
[02:53.64][ Verse 4]
[03:39.54]My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
[03:41.76]Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
[03:44.01]And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:46.41]If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:48.93]Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:51.09]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:53.40]Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
[03:55.86]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[03:58.23]They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:00.60]Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
[04:02.82]Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:05.22]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:07.29]I can't walk through the park cause it's crazy after dark
[04:09.69]Keep my hand on my gun cause they got me on the run
[04:12.18]I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
[04:14.64]Hear them say "You want some more?"
[04:15.84]Livin' on a see-saw
[04:27.30][Hook ]
[04:37.92][Verse 5 ]
[04:44.79]A child is born with no state of mind
[04:47.10]Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:49.26]God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too
[04:51.48]Because only God knows what you'll go through
[04:53.91]You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate
[04:56.19]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate
[04:58.74]The places you play and where you stay
[05:00.93]Looks like one great big alleyway
[05:03.21]You'll admire all the number-book takers
[05:05.76]Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers
[05:08.16]Drivin' big cars, spendin' twenties and tens
[05:10.26]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
[05:12.78]Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
[05:15.06]Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers
[05:17.43]You say I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool
[05:19.44]But then you wind up droppin' outta high school
[05:21.90]Now you're unemployed, all null and void
[05:24.48]Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:26.58]Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
[05:29.13]Got sent up for a eight-year bid
[05:31.23]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
[05:33.54]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:35.94]Bein' used and abused to serve like hell
[05:38.10]Til one day, you was found hung dead in the cell
[05:40.56]It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:42.96]You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:45.18]But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:47.52]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so
[05:55.23][ Hook ]