The Message

Grandmaster Flash

It's like a jungle sometimes


It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under


It's like a jungle sometimes


It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' 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


Rats in the front room, roaches in the back


Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat


I tried to get away but I couldn't get far


'cuz a man with a tow truck repossessed my car


Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge


I'm trying not to lose my head


Uh huh ha ha ha


It's like a jungle sometimes


It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under


Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window


Watchin' all the cars go by, roarin' as the breezes blow


Crazy lady, livin' in a bag


Eatin' outta garbage pails, used to be a fag hag


Said she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango


A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses


Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps


So she can tell her stories to the girls back home


She went to the city and got so so seditty


She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own


Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge


I'm trying not to lose my head


Uh huh ha ha ha


It's like a jungle sometimes


It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under


It's like a jungle sometimes


It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under


My brother's doin' bad, stole 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


Got a bum education, double-digit inflation


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 sacroiliac


A mid-range migraine, cancered me