[00:00:00] The Message (Re-Recorded Remastered Version) - Grandmaster Flash [00:00:24] It's like a jungle sometimes [00:00:25] It makes me wonder [00:00:26] How I keep from going under [00:00:33] Broken glass everywhere [00:00:35] People pissing on the stairs [00:00:36] You know they just don't care [00:00:38] I can't take the smell [00:00:39] I can't take the noise no more [00:00:40] Got no money to move out [00:00:41] I guess I got no choice [00:00:42] Rats in the front room [00:00:44] Cockroaches in the back [00:00:45] Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat [00:00:47] I tried to get away [00:00:48] But I couldn't get far [00:00:49] 'Cause a man with a tow-truck [00:00:50] Repossessed my car [00:00:52] Don't push me cause [00:00:54] I'm close to the edge [00:00:56] I'm trying not to lose my head [00:01:01] Ah huh-huh-huh [00:01:02] It's like a jungle sometimes [00:01:03] It makes me wonder [00:01:03] How I keep from going under [00:01:06] Standing on the front stoop [00:01:07] Hangin' out the window [00:01:09] Watching all the cars go by [00:01:10] Roaring as the breezes blow [00:01:11] Crazy lady livin' in a bag [00:01:13] Eatin' out of garbage pails [00:01:14] She used to be a fag-hag [00:01:16] Said she danced the tango [00:01:17] Skipped the light fandango [00:01:18] The Zircon Princess seemed [00:01:19] To lost her senses [00:01:20] Down at the peepshow [00:01:21] Watching all the creeps [00:01:23] So she can tell the stories [00:01:24] To the girls back home [00:01:25] She went to the city and [00:01:26] Got So-So-So Ditty [00:01:27] She had to get a pimp [00:01:28] She couldn't make it on her own [00:01:30] Don't push me cause [00:01:32] I'm close to the edge [00:01:35] I'm trying not to lose my head [00:01:39] It's like a jungle sometimes [00:01:41] It makes me wonder [00:01:41] How I keep from going under [00:01:44] It's like a jungle sometimes [00:01:45] It makes me wonder [00:01:46] How I keep from going under [00:01:49] My brother's doing bad [00:01:49] Took my mother's TV [00:01:51] Says she watches too much [00:01:52] Its just not healthy [00:01:53] All My Children in the daytime [00:01:55] Dallas at night [00:01:56] Can't even see the game or [00:01:57] The Sugar Ray fight [00:01:58] The bill collectors that ring my phone [00:02:01] And scare my wife when [00:02:02] I'm not home [00:02:03] Got a bum education [00:02:04] Double-digit inflation [00:02:05] Can't take the train to the job [00:02:06] There's a strike at the station [00:02:08] Neon King Kong standin on my back [00:02:10] Can't stop to turn around [00:02:11] Broke my sacroiliac [00:02:12] A mid-range migraine [00:02:14] Cancered membrane [00:02:15] Sometimes I think I'm going insane [00:02:16] I swear I might hijack a plane [00:02:17] Don't push me cause [00:02:19] I'm close to the edge [00:02:22] I'm trying not to lose my head [00:02:27] It's like a jungle sometimes [00:02:28] It makes me wonder [00:02:29] How I keep from going under [00:02:32] It's like a jungle sometimes [00:02:32] It makes me wonder [00:02:33] How I keep from going under [00:02:45] A child is born with [00:02:46] No state of mind [00:02:48] Blind to the ways of mankind [00:02:50] God is smiling on you [00:02:51] But he's frowning too [00:02:52] Because only God knows [00:02:54] What youll go through [00:02:55] Youll grow in the ghetto [00:02:56] Living second rate [00:02:57] And your eyes will sing [00:02:58] A song of deep hate [00:03:00] The places you play [00:03:01] And where you stay [00:03:02] Looks like one great big alley way [00:03:04] You'll admire all the number book takers [00:03:07] Thugs pimps pushers [00:03:08] And the big money makers [00:03:09] Driving big cars [00:03:10] Spending twenties and tens [00:03:11] And you wanna grow up [00:03:12] To be just like them huh [00:03:14] Smugglers scramblers [00:03:15] Burglars gamblers [00:03:16] Pickpockets peddlers even panhandlers [00:03:19] You say: I'm cool I'm no fool [00:03:21] But then you wind up [00:03:22] Dropping out of high school [00:03:23] Now you're unemployed [00:03:24] All non-void [00:03:26] Walking round like