歌词
The Message by Grandmaster Flash
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
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
Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat
I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
Cause a man with a tow-truck repossessed my car
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
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
4th: say what?
Crazy lady livin' in her bag
Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
Such a nice to tango, skipped her life and then go
In search of her prince it seemed she lost her 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 social security
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 lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
4th: say what?
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
My brother's doing best on my mother's TV
She says: “You watch it too much, it’s just not healthy!”
“All My Children” in the daytime, “Dallas” at night
Can even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
The bill collectors they ring my phone
And scare my wife when I'm not home
Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
I can’t take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
Neon King Kong standin' on my back
Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
A mid-ranged migraine, 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 lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
4th: say what?
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
My son said: ”Daddy I don't wonna 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’ll 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 pushed that girl in front of the train
Took her to the doctor, sewed her 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 dark
Keep my hand on my gun, cause they got me on the run
I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jar
Hear them say: “You want some more livin' on a seesaw?”
Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge
I'm trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
4th: say what?
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind
God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
Because only God knows what you’ll go through
You’ll grow in the ghetto, living second rate
And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
The places you’re playin’, where you stay
Looks like one great big alley way
You'll admire all the number book takers
Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
And you wonna grow up to be just like them, huh,
Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers
You say: “I'm cool, I'm no fool!”
But then you wind up dropping out of high school
Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walking ‘round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
Turned stickup kid, look what you’ve done did
Got sent up for a eight year bid
Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
Spend the next two years as a undercover fag
Being used and abused to serve like hell
Till one day you was found 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 lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh
2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh
4th: say what?
It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
专辑信息
1.Keep The Fire Burning
2.Jump Into My Life
3.So Many Men So Little Time
4.Do You Love Me
5.Dial My Number
6.Superfine (From Behind)
7.Tell Everybody
8.If You Feel It
9.Ma Quale Idea
10.Call Me
11.If You Feel The Funk
12.Cuba
13.Do It Again With Billy Jean
14.Remote Control
15.Street Music
16.San Salvador
17.Divine Emotions
18.Say Yeah
19.Shake It Up Tonight
20.Disco Train
21.I'm OK You're OK
22.Nice 'n Slow
23.Heartbeats
24.I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remix)
25.Just Got Paid
26.The Runner
27.Rapper's Delight
28.In The Stone
29.The Second Time Around
30.Play That Funky Music
31.Roses Are Red
32.After The Dance Is Through
33.Lovemachine (Part 1)
34.Fresh (Club Remix)
35.Rub You The Right Way
36.Release
37.Weekend
38.Knock On Wood
39.Disco Party
40.Colour My Love
41.Boogie Nights
42.The Chase
43.Kung Fu Fighting
44.Spend The Night
45.Walk Right Now
46.I Specialize In Love
47.White Lines
48.Que Sera Mi Vida
49.You're My Melody
50.Give It Up
51.Precious Little Diamond
52.I'm On Fire
53.Glad To Know You
54.If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady
55.We Got The Fun
56.Get Down
57.Reach Out
58.September
59.Il Veliero
60.Me No Pop I
61.Push It
62.Live It Up
63.Her
64.A Night To Remember
65.Instant Replay
66.The Heaven I Need
67.Disco
68.The Smurf
69.Zulu
70.Apache
71.A Lover's Holiday
72.High Energy
73.Share The Night (Easy Street)
74.I Can't Help Myself
75.Let's Go Dancing
76.Never Too Much
77.Gone Gone Gone
78.Discotch
79.Dare Me
80.Is It Love You're After
81.Axel F (Latin Rascals Mix)
82.Happy Station
83.The Message
84.Clouds Across The Moon
85.Glamorous Life (Part 1)
86.Cherchez La Femme
87.From Here To Eternity
88.Disco Lady
89.Shine On
90.Keep On Dancing
91.Dance The Kung Fu
92.Light My Fire
93.Switch
94.Party
95.Questionnaire
96.Funky Grandpa
97.My Girl Loves Me
98.Feel The Need In Me
99.The Show
100.One Step