The Message

The Message Lyrics

Song The Message
Artist Grandmaster Flash
Album Nova Classics Three
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[00:00.00] The Message by Grandmaster Flash
[00:43.98] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:46.22] How I keep from going under
[00:48.95] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:51.64] How I keep from going under
[00:52.99]
[01:02.87] Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.52] People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care
[01:06.92] I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise
[01:09.29] Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:11.76] Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:14.10] Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
[01:16.52] I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
[01:18.91] Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car
[01:20.95]
[01:22.07] Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[01:22.78] I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[01:30.58] 2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
[01:31.38] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[01:34.47] How I keep from going under
[01:35.55]
[01:37.08] Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
[01:37.58] Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:37.81] 4th: say what?
[01:40.43] Crazy lady livin' in her bag
[01:42.44] Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
[01:44.97] Such a nice to tango, skipped her life and then go
[01:49.08] In search of her prince it seemed she lost her senses
[01:50.64] Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
[01:51.91] So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:54.78] She went to the city and got social security
[01:56.71] She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:58.00]
[02:00.00] Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[02:03.93] I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[02:07.75] 2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
[02:10.41] 4th: say what?
[02:10.72] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:11.21] How I keep from going under
[02:13.75]
[02:18.79] My brother's doing best on my mother's TV
[02:19.47] She says: “You watch it too much, it’s just not healthy!”
[02:22.74] “All My Children” in the daytime, “Dallas” at night
[02:25.31] Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:27.72] The bill collectors they ring my phone
[02:30.15] And scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:32.10] Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:34.68] I can’t take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:37.30] Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:39.48] Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:41.83] A mid-ranged migraine, cancered membrane
[02:44.33] Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:46.78] Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[02:49.38] I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[02:56.45] 2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
[02:56.81] 4th: say what?
[02:57.20] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:57.74] How I keep from going under
[03:43.24] My son said: ”Daddy I don't wonna go to school
[03:45.55] Cause the teacher's a jerk!”, he must think I'm a fool
[03:47.96] And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:50.19] If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:52.81] I’ll dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:54.99] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:57.36] Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
[03:59.99] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:02.42] They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:04.59] Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
[04:06.78] Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:09.33] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:11.56] I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy after dark
[04:13.84] Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
[04:16.49] I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar
[04:19.11] Hear them say: “You want some more livin' on a seesaw?”
[04:21.46]
[04:22.59] Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[04:25.91] I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[04:31.79] 2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
[04:32.09] 4th: say what?
[04:33.31] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:34.49] How I keep from going under
[04:37.67]
[04:49.61] A child is born with no state of mind
[04:51.81] Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:54.12] God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
[04:56.46] Because only God knows what you’ll go through
[04:58.97] You’ll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
[05:01.30] And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[05:03.77] The places you’re playin’, where you stay
[05:06.00] Looks like one great big alley way
[05:09.07] You'll admire all the number book takers
[05:10.78] Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
[05:12.56] Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[05:17.33] And you wonna grow up to be just like them, huh,
[05:18.59] Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
[05:19.49] Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
[05:23.02] You say: “I'm cool, I'm no fool!”
[05:25.33] But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:27.30] Now you're unemployed, all non-void
[05:29.83] Walking ‘round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:32.10] Turned stickup kid, look what you’ve done did
[05:34.45] Got sent up for a eight year bid
[05:36.71] Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
[05:39.17] Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:41.57] Being used and abused to serve like hell
[05:43.71] Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:46.23] It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:48.45] You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:50.73] But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:53.24] Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:55.48]
[05:56.67] Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
[05:57.45] I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
[06:05.93] 2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
[06:07.03] 4th: say what?
[06:07.46] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:07.88] How I keep from going under
[00:00.00] The Message by Grandmaster Flash
[00:43.98] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:46.22] How I keep from going under
[00:48.95] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:51.64] How I keep from going under
[00:52.99]
[01:02.87] Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.52] People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don' t care
[01:06.92] I can' t take the smell, I can' t take the noise
[01:09.29] Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:11.76] Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:14.10] Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
[01:16.52] I tried to get away, but I couldn' t get far
[01:18.91] Cause a man with a towtruck repossessed my car
[01:20.95]
[01:22.07] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[01:22.78] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[01:30.58] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[01:31.38] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[01:34.47] How I keep from going under
[01:35.55]
[01:37.08] Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
[01:37.58] Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:37.81] 4th: say what?
[01:40.43] Crazy lady livin' in her bag
[01:42.44] Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a faghag
[01:44.97] Such a nice to tango, skipped her life and then go
[01:49.08] In search of her prince it seemed she lost her senses
[01:50.64] Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
[01:51.91] So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:54.78] She went to the city and got social security
[01:56.71] She had to get a pimp, she couldn' t make it on her own
[01:58.00]
[02:00.00] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[02:03.93] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[02:07.75] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[02:10.41] 4th: say what?
[02:10.72] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:11.21] How I keep from going under
[02:13.75]
[02:18.79] My brother' s doing best on my mother' s TV
[02:19.47] She says: " You watch it too much, it' s just not healthy!"
[02:22.74] " All My Children" in the daytime, " Dallas" at night
[02:25.31] Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:27.72] The bill collectors they ring my phone
[02:30.15] And scare my wife when I' m not home
[02:32.10] Got a bum education, doubledigit inflation
[02:34.68] I can' t take the train to the job, there' s a strike at the station
[02:37.30] Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:39.48] Can' t stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:41.83] A midranged migraine, cancered membrane
[02:44.33] Sometimes I think I' m going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:46.78] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[02:49.38] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[02:56.45] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[02:56.81] 4th: say what?
[02:57.20] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:57.74] How I keep from going under
[03:43.24] My son said: " Daddy I don' t wonna go to school
[03:45.55] Cause the teacher' s a jerk!", he must think I' m a fool
[03:47.96] And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it' d be cheaper
[03:50.19] If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:52.81] I' ll dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:54.99] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:57.36] Cause it' s all about money, ain' t a damn thing funny
[03:59.99] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:02.42] They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:04.59] Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
[04:06.78] Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:09.33] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:11.56] I can' t walk through the park, cause it' s crazy after dark
[04:13.84] Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
[04:16.49] I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar
[04:19.11] Hear them say: " You want some more livin' on a seesaw?"
[04:21.46]
[04:22.59] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[04:25.91] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[04:31.79] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[04:32.09] 4th: say what?
[04:33.31] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:34.49] How I keep from going under
[04:37.67]
[04:49.61] A child is born with no state of mind
[04:51.81] Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:54.12] God is smiling on you but he' s frowning too
[04:56.46] Because only God knows what you' ll go through
[04:58.97] You' ll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
[05:01.30] And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[05:03.77] The places you' re playin', where you stay
[05:06.00] Looks like one great big alley way
[05:09.07] You' ll admire all the number book takers
[05:10.78] Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
[05:12.56] Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[05:17.33] And you wonna grow up to be just like them, huh,
[05:18.59] Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
[05:19.49] Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
[05:23.02] You say: " I' m cool, I' m no fool!"
[05:25.33] But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:27.30] Now you' re unemployed, all nonvoid
[05:29.83] Walking ' round like you' re Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:32.10] Turned stickup kid, look what you' ve done did
[05:34.45] Got sent up for a eight year bid
[05:36.71] Now your manhood is took and you' re a may tag
[05:39.17] Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:41.57] Being used and abused to serve like hell
[05:43.71] Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:46.23] It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:48.45] You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:50.73] But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:53.24] Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:55.48]
[05:56.67] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[05:57.45] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[06:05.93] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[06:07.03] 4th: say what?
[06:07.46] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:07.88] How I keep from going under
[00:00.00] The Message by Grandmaster Flash
[00:43.98] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:46.22] How I keep from going under
[00:48.95] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[00:51.64] How I keep from going under
[00:52.99]
[01:02.87] Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.52] People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don' t care
[01:06.92] I can' t take the smell, I can' t take the noise
[01:09.29] Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:11.76] Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:14.10] Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
[01:16.52] I tried to get away, but I couldn' t get far
[01:18.91] Cause a man with a towtruck repossessed my car
[01:20.95]
[01:22.07] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[01:22.78] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[01:30.58] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[01:31.38] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[01:34.47] How I keep from going under
[01:35.55]
[01:37.08] Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
[01:37.58] Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:37.81] 4th: say what?
[01:40.43] Crazy lady livin' in her bag
[01:42.44] Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a faghag
[01:44.97] Such a nice to tango, skipped her life and then go
[01:49.08] In search of her prince it seemed she lost her senses
[01:50.64] Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
[01:51.91] So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:54.78] She went to the city and got social security
[01:56.71] She had to get a pimp, she couldn' t make it on her own
[01:58.00]
[02:00.00] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[02:03.93] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[02:07.75] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[02:10.41] 4th: say what?
[02:10.72] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:11.21] How I keep from going under
[02:13.75]
[02:18.79] My brother' s doing best on my mother' s TV
[02:19.47] She says: " You watch it too much, it' s just not healthy!"
[02:22.74] " All My Children" in the daytime, " Dallas" at night
[02:25.31] Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:27.72] The bill collectors they ring my phone
[02:30.15] And scare my wife when I' m not home
[02:32.10] Got a bum education, doubledigit inflation
[02:34.68] I can' t take the train to the job, there' s a strike at the station
[02:37.30] Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:39.48] Can' t stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:41.83] A midranged migraine, cancered membrane
[02:44.33] Sometimes I think I' m going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:46.78] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[02:49.38] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[02:56.45] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[02:56.81] 4th: say what?
[02:57.20] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:57.74] How I keep from going under
[03:43.24] My son said: " Daddy I don' t wonna go to school
[03:45.55] Cause the teacher' s a jerk!", he must think I' m a fool
[03:47.96] And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it' d be cheaper
[03:50.19] If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:52.81] I' ll dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:54.99] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:57.36] Cause it' s all about money, ain' t a damn thing funny
[03:59.99] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:02.42] They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:04.59] Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again
[04:06.78] Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:09.33] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:11.56] I can' t walk through the park, cause it' s crazy after dark
[04:13.84] Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
[04:16.49] I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar
[04:19.11] Hear them say: " You want some more livin' on a seesaw?"
[04:21.46]
[04:22.59] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[04:25.91] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[04:31.79] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[04:32.09] 4th: say what?
[04:33.31] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:34.49] How I keep from going under
[04:37.67]
[04:49.61] A child is born with no state of mind
[04:51.81] Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:54.12] God is smiling on you but he' s frowning too
[04:56.46] Because only God knows what you' ll go through
[04:58.97] You' ll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
[05:01.30] And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[05:03.77] The places you' re playin', where you stay
[05:06.00] Looks like one great big alley way
[05:09.07] You' ll admire all the number book takers
[05:10.78] Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
[05:12.56] Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[05:17.33] And you wonna grow up to be just like them, huh,
[05:18.59] Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
[05:19.49] Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
[05:23.02] You say: " I' m cool, I' m no fool!"
[05:25.33] But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:27.30] Now you' re unemployed, all nonvoid
[05:29.83] Walking ' round like you' re Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:32.10] Turned stickup kid, look what you' ve done did
[05:34.45] Got sent up for a eight year bid
[05:36.71] Now your manhood is took and you' re a may tag
[05:39.17] Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
[05:41.57] Being used and abused to serve like hell
[05:43.71] Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:46.23] It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:48.45] You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:50.73] But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:53.24] Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:55.48]
[05:56.67] Don' t push me cause I' m close to the edge
[05:57.45] I' m trying not to lose my head, ah huhhuhhuh
[06:05.93] 2nd and 5th: ah huhhuhhuh
[06:07.03] 4th: say what?
[06:07.46] It' s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:07.88] How I keep from going under
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