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[00:43.52] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:45.95] How I keep from going under
[00:48.10] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:49.89] How I keep from going under
[01:02.36] Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.18] People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
[01:06.95] I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
[01:09.18] Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:11.42] Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:13.75] Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:16.47] I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
[01:18.42] 'Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
[01:21.25] Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[01:26.06] I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:29.83] Ha-ha-ha-ha
[01:31.28] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[01:32.94] How I keep from going under
[01:36.99] Standing on the front stoop, hangin out the window
[01:38.23] Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:40.24] A crazy lady, livin in a bag
[01:42.59] Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
[01:44.06] Said, she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
[01:47.74] Was circon princess, seemed to lost her senses
[01:49.94] Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
[01:52.49] So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:54.65] She went to the city and got Social Security
[01:56.96] She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:59.28] Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[02:04.12] I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:07.71] Ha-ha-ha-ha
[02:09.12] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[02:10.95] How I keep from going under
[02:13.86] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[02:15.93] How I keep from going under
[02:18.33] My brothers doin' bad, stole my mothers TV
[02:19.94] Says, she watches to much, is just not healthy
[02:22.92] "All my children" in the daytime, "Dallas" at night
[02:25.18] Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:27.83] The bill collectors, they ring my phone
[02:30.14] And scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:32.84] Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:34.48] Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:37.86] Neon king kong standin' on my back
[02:39.59] Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:42.25] A midrange migraine, cancered membrane
[02:45.09] Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:47.47] Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[02:51.88] I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:56.88] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[02:58.70] How I keep from going under
[03:01.83] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[03:03.78] How I keep from going under
[03:44.66] My son said, "daddy, I don't wanna go to school
[03:46.36] Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
[03:48.72] And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:51.45] If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:54.02] I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:56.27] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:57.91] 'Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
[04:00.76] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:03.69] They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:05.63] Took her to the doctor, sewed the arm on again
[04:07.89] Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:10.36] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:13.36] I can't walk through the park, 'cause it's crazy after the dark
[04:15.42] Keep my hand on the gun, 'cause they got me on the run
[04:16.79] I feel like an outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
[04:20.37] Hear them say you want some more, livin on a seesaw
[04:22.90] Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[04:25.92] I'm trying not to lose my head
[04:31.81] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:34.13] How I keep from going under
[04:37.29] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:39.36] How I keep from going under
[04:41.83] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:46.84] How I keep from going under
[04:48.05] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:51.10] How I keep from going under
[04:51.92] A child is born, with no state of mind
[04:53.74] Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:55.81] God is smiling on you, but he's frowning too
[04:57.95] Because only God knows what you go through
[05:00.32] You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
[05:02.88] And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[05:05.32] The place that you play and where you stay
[05:07.53] Looks like one great big alley way
[05:10.13] You'll admire all the number book takers
[05:13.23] Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money makers
[05:14.82] Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[05:17.04] And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
[05:19.69] Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
[05:22.01] Pickpockets, peddlers and even panhandlers
[05:24.59] You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
[05:26.68] But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:29.26] Now you're unemployed, all null 'n void
[05:31.35] Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:34.29] Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
[05:36.34] Got send up for a eight year bid
[05:38.72] Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
[05:41.40] Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
[05:43.26] Being used and abused and served like hell
[05:45.53] Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:48.13] It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:50.25] You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:53.49] But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:55.65] Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:57.68] So, don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[06:02.44] I'm trying not to lose my head
[06:08.04] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[06:09.39] How I keep from going under
[06:11.80] Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh
[06:12.56] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[06:14.75] How I keep from going under
[06:15.92] Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh
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