Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message (Extended Version)(2018)

[00:43.20] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:45.21] How I keep from going under
[00:48.20] It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:49.82] How I keep from going under
[00:52.92]
[01:02.50] Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.17] People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
[01:06.82] I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
[01:09.04] Got no money to move out, I guess, I got no choice
[01:11.86] Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:14.10] Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:16.41] I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
[01:18.55] 'Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
[01:21.51] Don't push me
[01:22.74] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[01:26.03] I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:29.78] Ah-huh-huh-huh
[01:30.91] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[01:33.04] How I keep from going under
[01:35.52] Standin' on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
[01:37.93] Watchin' all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:40.71] A crazy lady, livin' in a bag
[01:42.74] Eatin' out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
[01:45.08] Said, she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
[01:47.31] A Zircon princess, seemed to lost her senses
[01:50.18] Down at the peep show, watching all the creeps
[01:52.29] So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:54.66] She went to the city and got so saditty
[01:56.84] She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:59.60] Don't push me
[02:00.94] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[02:04.22] I'm tryin' not to lose my head
[02:07.99] Ah-huh-huh-huh
[02:09.35] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:10.93] How I keep from going under
[02:13.92] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:15.85] How I keep from going under
[02:18.58] My brothers doin' bad, stole my mothers TV
[02:20.75] Says, she watches to much, is just not healthy
[02:23.18] All My Children in the daytime, Dallas, at night
[02:25.55] Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:27.94] The bill collectors, they ring my phone
[02:30.40] And scare my wife, when I'm not home
[02:32.60] Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:34.96] Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:37.64] Neon King Kong standin' on my back
[02:39.71] Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:42.23] A midrange migraine, cancered membrane
[02:44.66] Sometimes I think I'm going insane
[02:45.76] I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:47.35] Don't push me
[02:48.71] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[02:52.06] I'm tryin' not to lose my head
[02:56.80] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[02:58.90] How I keep from going under
[03:01.87] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[03:03.99] How I keep from going under
[03:07.13]
[03:44.57] My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school
[03:46.62] 'Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think, I'm a fool
[03:48.72] And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:51.47] If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:53.96] Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:56.44] Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:58.66] 'Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
[04:01.11] You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:03.67] They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:06.09] Took her to the doctor, sewed the arm on again
[04:08.16] Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:10.96] Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:12.64] I can't walk through the park, 'cause it's crazy after the dark
[04:15.05] Keep my hand on the gun, 'cause they got me on the run
[04:17.90] I feel like an outlaw, broke my last glass jar
[04:20.39] Hear them say, you want some more? Livin' on a see-saw
[04:22.55] Don't push me
[04:24.19] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[04:27.73] I'm tryin' not to lose my head (Say what?)
[04:32.39] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:34.21] How I keep from going under
[04:37.17] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:39.15] How I keep from going under
[04:41.87] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:43.93] How I keep from going under
[04:46.75] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[04:48.73] How I keep from going under
[04:51.22] A child is born, with no state of mind
[04:53.65] Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:55.91] God is smilin' on you, but he's frownin' too
[04:58.11] Because only God knows, what you'll go through
[05:00.62] You'll grow in the ghetto, livin' second rate
[05:02.82] And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[05:05.64] The place, that you play and where you stay
[05:07.59] Looks like one great big alley way
[05:10.19] You'll admire all the number book takers
[05:12.48] Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money makers
[05:15.05] Driving big cars, spendin' twenties and tens
[05:17.10] And you wanna grow up to be just like them
[05:19.84] Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
[05:22.24] Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
[05:24.77] You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
[05:26.80] But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:29.09] Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
[05:31.71] Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:33.99] Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did
[05:36.77] Got sent up for an eight year bid
[05:38.75] Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag
[05:40.80] Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
[05:43.50] Being used and abused and served like hell
[05:45.54] 'Til one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:48.20] It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:50.76] You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:52.99] But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:55.27] Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:57.69] So, don't push me
[05:59.74] 'Cause I'm close to the edge
[06:02.71] I'm trying not to lose my head
[06:06.61] Ah-huh-huh-huh
[06:07.10] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:09.62] How I keep from going under
[06:11.02] Huh-ah-huh-huh-huh
[06:12.61] It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
[06:14.33] How I keep from going under
[06:15.75] Huh-ah-huh-huh-huh
[06:17.51] Yo Mel, you see that girl there?
[06:20.23] Yo, that sounded like Cowboy man
[06:22.13] Cool
[06:22.56] Yo, what's up Money?
[06:23.63] Yo, hey, where's Creole and Rahiem at?
[06:26.46] They upstairs cooling out
[06:27.50] So what's up for tonight y'all?
[06:29.19] Yo, we could go down to Fever man
[06:30.45] Let's go check out "Junebug" man
[06:31.99] Hey yo, you know that girl Betty?
[06:33.29] Yeah man
[06:33.86] Her moms got robbed man (What?)
[06:35.75] Not again man
[06:36.44] She got hurt bad (When did this happen?)
[06:37.25] What's goin' on?
[06:38.54] Freeze
[06:38.69] Don't nobody move nothin'
[06:39.65] Y'all know what this is
[06:41.02] Get 'em up, get 'em up (What?)
[06:41.47] Oh man, we're Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
[06:43.93] What is that, a gang?
[06:45.12] No
[06:45.14] Shut up
[06:45.76] I don't wanna hear your mouth
[06:47.37] Shut up
[06:47.89] Officer, officer, what is the problem?
[06:49.18] You the problem
[06:49.92] Yo, you ain't gotta push me man
[06:50.93] Get in the car, get in the car
[06:53.08] Get in the God...
[06:53.68] I said, "Get in the car"
[06:54.61] Why is he doggin' us man?
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