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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

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The Message foi lançado em 3 de outubro de 1982 por Rhino como parte do álbum The Message

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Vídeo da música

Vídeo da música

Créditos

INTERPRETAÇÃO

Duke Bootee

Vocais

Melle Mel

Vocais

Grandmaster Flash

Grandmaster Flash

DJ

Cowboy

Vocais

Doug Wimbush

Baixo

Dwain Mitchell

Teclados

Ed Fletcher

Percussão

Gary Henry

Teclados

Jiggs Chase

Sintetizador

Keith LeBlanc

Bateria

Kid Creole

Vocais

Reggie Griffin

Sintetizador

Skip McDonald

Violão

Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia Robinson

Sintetizador

Rahiem

Voz

Scorpio

Voz

COMPOSIÇÃO E LETRA

Edward Fletcher

Edward Fletcher

Composição

Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia Robinson

Composição

Melvin Glover

Composição

Jiggs Chase

Composição

PRODUÇÃO E ENGENHARIA

Edward Fletcher

Edward Fletcher

Produção

Jiggs Chase

Produção

Sylvia Robinson

Sylvia Robinson

Produção

STEVE JEROME

Engenharia, Engenharia (mixagem)

Nina Rhodes

Engenharia

Letra

[Intro]

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

[Verse 1]

Broken glass everywhere

People pissin' on the stairs

You know they just don't care

I can't take the smell

Can't take the noise

Got no money to move out

I guess I got no choice

[Verse 2]

Rats in the front room

Roaches in the back

Junkies 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

[Chorus]

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge

I'm tryin' not to lose my head

Ha-ha, ha ha

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

[Verse 3]

Standin' on the front stoop

Hangin' out the window

Watchin' all the cars go by

Roarin' as the breezes blow

Crazy lady, livin' in a bag

Eatin' out of garbage pails

Used to be a fag hag

Said she'll dance the tango

Skip the light fandango

A Zircon princess

Seemed to lost her senses

[Verse 4]

Down at the peep show

Watchin' all the creeps

So she can tell her stories

To the girls back home

She went to the city

And got so-so sad-tty

She had to get a pimp

She couldn't make it on her own

[Chorus]

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge

I'm tryin' not to lose my head

Ha-ha, ha ha

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 5]

My brother's doin' bad

Stole my mother's TV

Says she watches too much

It's just not healthy

All My Children in the day time

Dallas at night

Can't even see the game

Or the Sugar Ray fight

[Verse 6]

The 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

[Verse 7]

Neon, King Kong

Standin' on my back

Can't stop to turn around

Broke my sacroiliac

A mid-range migraine

Cancered membrane

Sometimes I think I'm going insane

I swear, I might hijack a plane

[Chorus]

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge

I'm tryin' not to lose my head

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 8]

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

[Verse 9]

Or 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

[Verse 10]

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

[Verse 11]

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 an outlaw

Broke my last glass jaw

Hear them say

"You want some more?"

Livin' on a see-saw

[Chorus]

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge

I'm tryin' not to lose my head

Say what?

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

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 12]

A child is born

With no state of mind

Blind to the ways of mankind

God is smilin' on you

But He's frownin' too

Because only God knows

What you'll go through

[Verse 13]

You'll curl in the ghetto

Livin' 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 alleyway

You'll admire all the number book takers

Thugs, pimps, and pushers

And the big money makers

Drivin' big cars

Spendin' twenties and tens

And you'll wanna grow up

To be just like them

[Verse 14]

Ha, smugglers, scramblers

Burglars, gamblers

Pickpocket, peddlers

Even panhandlers

You say, "I'm cool"

"Huh, I'm no fool"

But then you wind up droppin' outta high school

Now you're unemployed

All non-void

Walkin' 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd

[Verse 15]

Turned stick up kid

But look what you done did

Got sent up for a eight-year bid

Now your manhood is took

And you're a Maytag

Spend the next two years

As a undercover fag

Being used and abused

To serve like hell

To one day you were found

Hung dead in the cell

[Verse 16]

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

[Chorus]

So, don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge

I'm tryin' not to lose my head

Ha-ha, ha ha

It's like a jungle sometimes

[Bridge]

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

Huh, a-huh-huh huh huh

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

Huh, a-huh-huh huh huh

[Outro]

Yo, Mel, you see that girl there?

Yo, that sound like Cowboy

Yo, what's up, money?

Yo

And Miss Field and Rahim

They upstairs coolin' out

So what's up for tonight, y'all?

Yo, we could go down to Phoenix

We could check out Junebug, man

[Outro]

Hey yo, you know that girl Betty?

Yeah man, I'm on that, aw man

What?

She got did, man

She got hurt bad

When this happen?

When this?

Freeze, don't nobody move nothin'?

Y'all know what this is

Get 'em up, get 'em up

We down with Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

Break his leg, Grandmaster? What is that a gang?

Naw man

Shut up, I don't wanna hear your mouth

Get up

Officer, officer, what the problem?

Ain't no, you the problem

Yo, you ain't got a

Get in the car, get in the car

Get in the gah, I said, get in the car

Why is you doing this?

Written by: Chase, Edward Fletcher, Melvin Glover, Sylvia Robinson

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