[00:28.50]the message
[00:28.71](e.fletcher, s.robinson, c.chase, m.glover -
[00:33.72]Sugarhill records '82)
[00:34.20]Broken glass everywhere
[00:34.74]People pissing on the stairs, you know they just
[00:35.64]Don't care
[00:35.85]I can't take the smell, i can't take the noise
[00:36.66]Got no money to move out, i guess i got no choice
[00:37.53]Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[00:38.37]Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
[00:39.39]I tried to get away, but i couldn't get far
[00:42.51]Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
[00:43.50]Chorus:
[00:43.80]Don't push me, cause i'm close to the edge
[00:44.58]I'm trying not to loose my head
[00:45.21]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:48.72]How i keep from going under
[00:49.29]Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
[00:50.97]Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes
[00:51.93]Blow
[00:52.02]Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
[01:13.53]Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
[01:14.55]Search and test a tango, skips the life and then go
[01:15.72]To search a prince to see the last of senses
[01:16.62]Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
[01:17.40]So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:25.44]She went to the city and got so so so ditty
[01:28.29]She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her
[01:30.57]Own
[01:30.63]Chorus:
[01:31.44]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[01:33.36]How i keep from goin' under
[01:33.93]My brother's doing fast on my mother's t.v.
[01:34.86]Says she watches to much, is just not healthy
[01:38.22]All my children in the daytime, dallas at night
[01:39.30]Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight
[01:40.20]Bill collectors they ring my phone
[01:40.89]And scare my wife when i'm not home
[01:41.79]Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[01:42.96]Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike
[01:43.89]At the station
[01:44.19]Me on king kong standin' on my back
[01:44.91]Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[01:45.90]Midrange, migraine, cancered membrane
[01:46.71]Sometimes i think i'm going insane, i swear i might
[01:51.30]Hijack a plane!
[01:51.60]Chorus:
[01:51.75]My son said daddy i don't wanna go to school
[01:52.68]Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think i'm a
[01:53.70]Fool
[01:53.82]And all the kids smoke reefer, i think it'd be
[01:55.71]Cheaper
[01:56.82]If i just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[01:58.50]I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[01:59.16]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[02:00.60]Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing
[02:02.04]Funny
[02:02.16]You got to have a con in this land of milk and
[02:04.59]Honey
[02:04.98]They push that girl in front of a train
[02:05.79]Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again
[02:06.66]Stabbed that man, right in his heart
[02:07.35]Gave him a transplant before a brand new start
[02:09.36]I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy
[02:10.29]After the dark
[02:10.65]Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the
[02:11.55]Run
[02:11.79]I feel like an outlaw, broke my last fast jaw
[02:12.66]Hear them say you want some more, livin' on a
[02:13.50]Seesaw
[02:13.62]Chorus:
[02:13.77]A child was born, with no state of mind
[02:14.64]Blind to the ways of mankind
[02:15.48]God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
[02:16.50]Cause only god knows what you go through
[02:17.19]You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
[02:51.00]And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[02:51.78]The places you play and where you stay
[02:52.50]Looks like one great big alley way
[02:53.19]You'll admire all the number book takers
[02:54.00]Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
[03:05.43]Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[03:06.72]And you wanna grow up to be just like them
[03:07.56]Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
[03:08.55]Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
[03:11.28]You say i'm cool, i'm no fool
[03:22.47]But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[03:23.97]Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
[03:27.33]Walking around like you're pretty boy floyd
[03:28.11]Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
[03:28.95]Got send up for a eight year bid
[03:31.44]Now your man is took and you're a may tag
[03:32.19]Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
[03:33.24]Being used and abused, and served like hell
[03:34.41]Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell
[03:36.60]It was plain to see that your life was lost
[03:37.47]You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[03:49.62]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
[03:50.34]Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[03:51.30]Chorus: