The Message
Rap/Hip-Hop
32
Written by:
Ed “Duke Bootee” Fletcher, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Melle Mel, and Sylvia Robinson
[Intro]
It's like a jungle1 sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
[Verse 1]
Broken glass everywhere2
People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care
I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise no more
Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
Rats in the front room, cockroaches in the back
Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
'Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car
[Hook]
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge3
I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
[Verse 2]
Standing on the front stoop4, hangin' out the window
Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady livin' in a bag
Eatin' out of garbage pails, she used to be a fag-hag5
Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
The Zircon6 Princess seemed to lost her senses
Down at the peepshow7, watching all the creeps
So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
She went to the city and got so-so-seditty8
She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[Hook]
Year: 1982