The Message (LP版)-The Sugarhill Gang

[ti:The Message (LP版)] [ar:The Sugarhill Gang] [al:Showdown - Sugarhill Gang Vs. Grandmaster Flash] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Message (LP版) - The Sugarhill Gang [00:43.67]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:44.67]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [00:46.33] [00:48.48]It's like a jungle sometimes [00:49.51]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [00:51.06] [01:02.85]Broken glass everywhere [01:04.49]People pissing on the stairs you know they just don't care [01:06.79]I can't take the smell [01:07.96]Can't take the noise [01:09.19]Got no money to move out [01:10.21]I guess I got no choice [01:11.72]Rats in the front room roaches in the back [01:14.02]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat [01:16.48]I tried to get away but I couldn't get far [01:18.73]'Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car [01:20.65] [01:21.23]Don't push me [01:22.47] [01:23.00]'Cause I'm close to the edge [01:25.88]I'm trying not to lose my head [01:29.65] [01:31.40]It's like a jungle sometimes [01:32.37]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [01:33.99] [01:35.80]Standing on the front stoop [01:36.84]Hanging out the window [01:38.02]Watching all the cars go by [01:39.40]Roaring as the breezes blow [01:40.71]Crazy lady living in a bag [01:42.80]Eating out of garbage pails [01:44.08]Used to be a fag hag [01:45.35]Said she'll dance the tango [01:46.41]Skip the light fandango [01:47.60]A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses [01:49.82]Down at the peep show watching all the creeps [01:52.12]So she can tell her stories to the girls back home [01:54.49]She went to the city and got social security [01:57.06]She had to get a pimp she couldn't make it [01:58.68]On her own [01:59.57]Don't push me [02:01.03]'Cause I'm close to the edge [02:03.73] [02:04.24]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:07.68] [02:09.16]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:10.53]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [02:12.14] [02:14.21]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:15.31]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [02:17.07] [02:18.70]My brother's doing bad [02:19.61]Stole my mother's T V [02:20.72]Says she watches too much [02:21.78]It's just not healthy [02:23.13]All my children in the daytime [02:24.58]Dallas at night [02:25.42]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight [02:28.13]The bill collectors [02:29.11]They ring my phone [02:30.44]And scare my wife when I'm not home [02:32.66]Got a bum education double digit inflation [02:35.12]Can't take the train to the job [02:36.31]There's a strike at the station [02:37.64]Neon king kong standing on my back [02:39.91]Can't stop to turn around [02:41.07]Broke my sacroiliac [02:42.60]A mid range migraine [02:43.72]Cancered membrane [02:44.91]Sometimes I think I'm going insane [02:45.89]I swear I might hijack a plane [02:47.37]Don't push me [02:48.42] [02:48.95]'Cause I'm close to the edge [02:51.86]I'm trying not to lose my head [02:55.64] [02:57.20]It's like a jungle sometimes [02:58.36]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [03:00.04] [03:02.03]It's like a jungle sometimes [03:03.11]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [03:04.74] [03:44.53]My son said daddy [03:45.52]I don't wanna go to school [03:46.69]'Cause the teacher's a jerk [03:47.81]He must think I'm a fool [03:49.01]And all the kids smoke reefer [03:50.26]I think it'd be cheaper [03:51.31]If I just got a job [03:52.56]Learned to be a street sweeper [03:53.91]Or dance to the beat [03:55.11]Shuffle my feet [03:56.19]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps [03:58.64]'Cause it's all about money [03:59.72]Ain't a d**n thing funny [04:01.01]You got to have a con in this land [04:02.74]Of milk and honey [04:03.58]They pushed that girl in front of the train [04:05.78]Took her to the doctor [04:06.97]Sewed her arm on again [04:08.29]Stabbed that man right in his heart [04:10.65]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start [04:12.97]I can't walk through the park [04:14.24]'Cause it's crazy after dark [04:15.24]Keep my hand on my gun [04:16.32]'Cause they got me on the run [04:17.56]I feel like a outlaw [04:18.82]Broke my last glass jaw [04:20.45]Hear them say you want some more [04:21.39]Living on a see saw [04:22.66]Don't push me [04:24.14]'Cause I'm close to the edge [04:26.97] [04:27.61]I'm trying not to lose my head [04:31.18]Say what [04:31.69] [04:32.60]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:33.67]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [04:35.29] [04:37.39]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:38.43]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [04:40.18] [04:42.13]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:43.17]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [04:44.81] [04:46.91]It's like a jungle sometimes [04:47.92]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [04:49.67] [04:51.46]A child is born with no state of mind [04:53.32]Blind to the ways of mankind [04:55.80]God is smiling on you but he's frowning too [04:58.18]Because only God knows what you'll go through [05:00.48]You'll grow in the ghetto living second rate [05:02.90]And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate [05:05.45]The places you play and where you stay [05:07.65]Looks like one great big alleyway [05:10.10]You'll admire all the number book takers [05:12.71]Thugs pimps and pushers and the big money makers [05:14.98]Driving big cars [05:16.06]Spending twenties and tens [05:17.24]And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them [05:19.50]Huh [05:19.93]Smugglers scramblers burglars [05:21.55]Gamblers [05:22.16]Pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers [05:24.69]You say I'm cool huh [05:25.79]I'm no fool [05:26.67]But then you wind up dropping outta high school [05:29.09]Now you're unemployed [05:30.37]All null and void [05:31.74]Walking 'round like you're pretty boy Floyd [05:34.02]Turned stick up kid [05:35.01]But look what you done did [05:36.37]Got sent up for a eight year bid [05:38.68]Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag [05:41.15]Spend the next two years as a undercover fag [05:43.61]Being used and abused to serve like hell [05:45.77]'Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell [05:48.20]It was plain to see that your life was lost [05:50.55]You was cold and your body swung back and forth [05:53.00]But now your eyes sing the sad [05:54.63]Sad song [05:55.23]Of how you lived so fast and died so young [05:57.68]So [05:58.06]Don't push me [05:59.56]'Cause I'm close to the edge [06:02.88]I'm trying not to lose my head [06:06.31] [06:07.59]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:08.98]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under [06:10.83] [06:12.75]It's like a jungle sometimes [06:13.82]It makes me wonder how I keep from going under