The Message (Extended Version)

[00:43.39] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:45.23] How I keep from going under
[00:48.12] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:50.07] How I keep from going under
[00:53.24]
[01:02.62] Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.23] People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
[01:06.94] I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
[01:09.03] Got no money to move out, I guess, I got no choice
[01:11.79] Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:14.09] Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:16.49] I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
[01:18.66] 'Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
[01:21.36] Don't push me
[01:22.83] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[01:26.14] I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:29.84] Ah-huh-huh-huh
[01:31.12] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[01:32.97] How I keep from going under
[01:35.58] Standin' on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
[01:37.80] Watchin' all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:40.34] A crazy lady, livin' in a bag
[01:42.70] Eatin' out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
[01:45.17] Said, she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
[01:47.46] A Zircon princess, seemed to lost her senses
[01:49.97] Down at the peep show, watching all the creeps
[01:52.27] So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:54.63] She went to the city and got so saditty
[01:56.90] She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:59.53] Don't push me
[02:01.00] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[02:04.32] I'm tryin' not to lose my head
[02:08.03] Ah-huh-huh-huh
[02:09.24] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:11.14] How I keep from going under
[02:14.01] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:15.96] How I keep from going under
[02:18.49] My brothers doin' bad, stole my mothers TV
[02:20.66] Says, she watches to much, is just not healthy
[02:23.19] All My Children in the daytime, Dallas, at night
[02:25.57] Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:28.05] The bill collectors, they ring my phone
[02:30.38] And scare my wife, when I'm not home
[02:32.44] Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:34.82] Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:37.62] Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:39.78] Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:42.87] A midrange migraine, cancered membrane
[02:44.74] Sometimes I think I'm going insane
[02:45.96] I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:47.25] Don't push me
[02:48.74] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[02:52.00] I'm tryin' not to lose my head
[02:56.96] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:58.81] How I keep from going under
[03:01.77] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[03:03.63] How I keep from going under
[03:06.83]
[03:44.28] My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
[03:46.51] 'Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think, I'm a fool
[03:48.84] And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:51.32] If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:53.91] Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:56.26] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:58.46] 'Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
[04:01.05] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:03.41] They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:05.97] Took her to the doctor, sewed the arm on again
[04:08.22] Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:10.79] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:12.63] I can't walk through the park, 'cause it's crazy after the dark
[04:15.12] Keep my hand on the gun, 'cause they got me on the run
[04:17.77] I feel like an outlaw, broke my last glass jar
[04:20.29] Hear them say, you want some more? Livin' on a see-saw
[04:22.60] Don't push me
[04:24.12] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[04:27.42] I'm tryin' not to lose my head (Say what?)
[04:32.33] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:34.20] How I keep from going under
[04:37.19] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:39.07] How I keep from going under
[04:41.96] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:43.84] How I keep from going under
[04:46.72] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:48.57] How I keep from going under
[04:51.12] A child is born, with no state of mind
[04:53.42] Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:55.64] God is smilin' on you, but he's frownin' too
[04:57.94] Because only God knows, what you'll go through
[05:00.41] You'll grow in the ghetto, livin' second rate
[05:02.75] And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[05:05.48] The place, that you play and where you stay
[05:07.64] Looks like one great big alley way
[05:10.06] You'll admire all the number book takers
[05:12.55] Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money makers
[05:15.19] Driving big cars, spendin' twenties and tens
[05:17.12] And you wanna grow up to be just like them
[05:19.76] Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
[05:22.07] Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
[05:24.55] You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
[05:26.56] But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:29.10] Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
[05:31.87] Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:33.83] Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
[05:36.50] Got sent up for an eight year bid
[05:38.67] Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
[05:40.95] Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
[05:43.42] Being used and abused and served like hell
[05:45.60] 'Til one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:48.25] It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:50.61] You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:52.97] But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:55.21] Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:57.76] So, don't push me
[05:59.48] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[06:02.89] I'm trying not to lose my head
[06:06.77] Ah-huh-huh-huh
[06:07.70] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:09.63] How I keep from going under
[06:11.01] Huh-ah-huh-huh-huh
[06:12.51] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:14.48] How I keep from going under
[06:15.70] Huh-ah-huh-huh-huh
[06:17.55] Yo Mel, you see that girl there?
[06:20.25] Yo, that sounded like Cowboy man
[06:22.05] Cool
[06:22.65] Yo, what's up Money?
[06:23.68] Yo, hey, where's Creole and Rahiem at?
[06:26.32] They upstairs cooling out
[06:27.52] So what's up for tonight y'all?
[06:29.03] Yo, we could go down to Fever man
[06:30.38] Let's go check out "Junebug" man
[06:31.73] Hey yo, you know that girl Betty?
[06:33.10] Yeah man
[06:33.72] Her moms got robbed man (What?)
[06:35.03] Not again man
[06:35.88] She got hurt bad (When did this happen?)
[06:37.97] What's goin' on?
[06:38.45] Freeze
[06:38.79] Don't nobody move nothin'
[06:39.63] Y'all know what this is
[06:40.37] Get 'em up, get 'em up (What?)
[06:41.46] Oh man, we're Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
[06:43.95] What is that, a gang?
[06:45.53] No
[06:45.85] Shut up
[06:46.24] I don't wanna hear your mouth
[06:47.40] Shut up
[06:47.76] Officer, officer, what is the problem?
[06:49.37] You the problem
[06:50.21] Yo, you ain't gotta push me man
[06:51.38] Get in the car, get in the car
[06:52.75] Get in the God...
[06:53.41] I said, "Get in the car"
[06:54.33] Why is he doggin' us man?
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