The Message lyrics

Artist  : Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five 
Song : The Message
 


Broken glass everywhere
People pissing on the
stairs, you know they just don't care
I can't
take the smell, I can't take the noise
Got no
money to move out, I guess I got no
choice
Rats in the front room, roaches in the
back
Junkie's in the alley with a baseball
bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get
far
Cause the man with the tow-truck
repossessed my car

Don't push me, cause
I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose
my head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes
me wonder
How I keep from going
under

Standing on the front stoop, hangin'
out the window
Watching all the cars go by,
roaring as the breezes blow
Crazy lady, livin'
in a bag
Eating out of garbage piles, used to
be a fag-hag
Search and test a tango, skips
the life and then go
To search a prince to see
the last of senses
Down at the peepshow,
watching all the creeps
So she can tell the
stories to the girls back home
She went to the
city and got so so so ditty
She had to get a
pimp, she couldn't make it on her
own

Don't push me, cause I'm close to the
edge
I'm trying not to loose my head
It's
like a jungle sometimes, it makes me
wonder
How I keep from going under

My
brother's doing fast on my mother's T.V.
Says
she watches to much, is just not healthy
All
my children in the daytime, Dallas at
night
Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray
fight
Bill collectors they ring my phone
And
scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum
education, double-digit inflation
Can't take
the train to the job, there's a strike at the
station
Me on King Kong standin' on my
back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my
sacroiliac
Midrange, migrained, cancered
membrane
Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I
swear I might hijack a plane!

Don't push
me, cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not
to loose my head
It's like a jungle sometimes,
it makes me wonder
How I keep from going
under

My son said daddy I don't wanna go
to school
Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must
think I'm a fool
And all the kids smoke
reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
If I just got
a job, learned to be a street sweeper
I dance
to the beat, shuffle my feet
Wear a shirt and
tie and run with the creeps
Cause it's all
about money, ain't a damn thing funny
You got
to have a con in this land of milk and
honey
They push that girl in front of a
train
Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on
again
Stabbed that man, right in his
heart
Gave him a transplant for a brand new
start
I can't walk through the park, cause
it's crazy after the dark
Keep my hand on the
gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like
an outlaw, broke my last fast jaw
Hear them
say you want some more, livin' on a
seasaw

Don't push me, cause I'm close to
the edge
I'm trying not to loose my
head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me
wonder
How I keep from going under

A
child was born, wih no state of mind
Blind to
the ways of mankind
Got a smile on you with
these burning tooth
Cause only god knows what
you go through
You grow in the ghetto, living
second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of
deep hate
The places you play and where you
stay
Looks like one great big alley
way
You'll admire all the numberbook
takers
Dogpitchers, pushers and the big money
makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and
tens
And you wanna grow up to be just like
them
Smuygglers, scrambles, burglars,
gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers and even
pan-handlers
You say I'm cool, I'm no
fool
But then you wind up dropping out of
highschool
Now you're unemployed, all null 'n'
void
Walking around like you're pretty boy
Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you done
did
Got send up for a eight year bid
Now
your man hood is took and you're a
Maytag
Spend the next two years as an
undercover fag
Being used and abused, and
served like hell
Till one day you was find
hung dead in a cell
It was plain to see that
your life was lost
You was cold and your body
swung back and forth
But now your eyes sing
the sad sad song
Of how you lived so fast and
died so young

Don't push me, cause I'm
close to the edge
I'm trying not to loose my
head
It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me
wonder
How I keep from going under