[ti:the message] [ar:grandmaster flash] [00:43.194]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:46.817]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [00:47.793]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:48.566]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [01:01.958]Broken glass everywhere [01:03.802]People pissin'on the stairs,you know they just don't care [01:06.798]I can't take the smell,can't take the noise [01:08.750]Got no money to move out,I guess I got no choice [01:10.902]Rats in the front room,roaches in the back [01:13.366]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat [01:15.415]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far [01:18.287]'cuz a man with a tow truck repossessed my car [01:20.707]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [01:25.357]I'm trying not to lose my head [01:28.747]Uh huh ha ha ha [01:31.307]It's like a jungle sometimes [01:32.147]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [01:34.103]Standin'on the front stoop hangin'out the window [01:37.167]Watchin'all the cars go by,roarin'as the breezes blow [01:39.552]Crazy lady,livin'in a bag [01:41.707]Eatin'outta garbage pails,used to be a fag hag [01:45.27]Said she'll dance the tango,skip the light fandango [01:46.968]A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses [01:49.222]Down at the peep show watchin'all the creeps [01:51.82]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home [01:53.367]She went to the city and got so so seditty [01:55.623]She had to get a pimp,she couldn't make it on her own [01:58.866]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [02:03.465]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:07.157]Uh huh ha ha ha [02:08.697]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:09.582]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [02:13.332]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:14.172]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [02:17.729]My brother's doin'bad,stole my mother's TV [02:19.822]Says she watches too much,it's just not healthy [02:21.676]"All My Children"in the daytime,"Dallas"at night [02:24.171]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight [02:27.216]The bill collectors,they ring my phone [02:29.531]and scare my wife when I'm not home [02:31.873]Got a bum education,double-digit inflation [02:33.171]Can't take the train to the job,there's a strike at the station [02:36.608]Neon King Kong standin'on my back [02:38.291]Can't stop to turn around,broke my sacroiliac [02:40.286]A mid-range migraine,cancered membrane [02:43.797]Sometimes I think I'm goin'insane [02:44.901]I swear I might hijack a plane! [02:46.485]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [02:48.616]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:55.961]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:56.831]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [02:58.701]It's like a jungle sometimes [03:01.357]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [03:42.906]My son said,Daddy,I don't wanna go to school [03:44.917]'cuz the teacher's a jerk,he must think I'm a fool [03:47.237]And all the kids smoke reefer,I think it'd be cheaper [03:49.498]if I just got a job,learned to be a street sweeper [03:52.142]Or dance to the beat,shuffle my feet [03:54.612]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [03:57.62]'cuz it's all about money,ain't a damn thing funny [03:59.322]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey [04:02.02]They pushed that girl in front of the train [04:04.177]Took her to the doctor,sewed her arm on again [04:06.572]Stabbed that man right in his heart [04:08.947]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start [04:11.213]I can't walk through the park 'cuz it's crazy after dark [04:13.212]Keep my hand on my gun 'cuz they got me on the run [04:16.257]I feel like a outlaw,broke my last glass jaw [04:18.162]Hear them say "You want some more?" [04:19.582]Livin'on a see-saw [04:20.332]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [04:24.532]I'm trying not to lose my head [04:29.539]Say what? [04:30.665]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:31.476]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [04:35.60]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:36.340]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [04:39.876]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:40.714]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [04:44.518]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:45.386]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [04:49.191]A child is born with no state of mind [04:51.191]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:53.616]God is smilin'on you but he's frownin'too [04:56.31]Because only God knows what you'll go through [04:58.456]You'll grow in the ghetto livin'second-rate [04:59.986]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate [05:03.200]The places you play and where you stay [05:05.684]Looks like one great big alleyway [05:07.900]You'll admire all the number-book takers [05:10.409]Thugs,pimps and pushers and the big money-makers [05:12.110]Drivin'big cars,spendin'twenties and tens [05:15.124]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them,huh [05:17.605]Smugglers,scramblers,burglars,gamblers [05:19.825]Pickpocket peddlers,even panhandlers [05:22.240]You say I'm cool,huh,I'm no fool [05:24.365]But then you wind up droppin'outta high school [05:26.935]Now you're unemployed,all non-void [05:29.390]Walkin'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd [05:31.642]Turned stick-up kid,but look what you done did [05:33.985]Got sent up for a eight-year bid [05:36.365]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag [05:38.830]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [05:41.35]Bein'used and abused to serve like hell [05:43.303]'til one day,you was found hung dead in the cell [05:45.620]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:48.295]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:50.385]But now your eyes sing the sad,sad song [05:52.950]Of how you lived so fast and died so young so... [05:55.411]Don't push me 'cuz I'm close to the edge [06:00.86]I'm trying not to lose my head [06:04.54]Uh huh huh huh huh [06:05.334]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:06.349]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [06:08.434]Huh,uh huh huh huh huh [06:09.520]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:11.294]It makes me wonder how I keep from goin'under [06:13.154]Huh,uh huh huh huh huh