The Message ([Edit]) - Nosferatu/Endymion.mp3

[00:01.26]the message
[00:01.47](e.fletcher, s.robinson, c.chase, m.glover -
[00:13.35]Sugarhill records '82)
[00:13.86]Broken glass everywhere
[00:14.97]People pissing on the stairs, you know they just
[00:16.56]Don't care
[00:17.73]I can't take the smell, i can't take the noise
[00:19.14]Got no money to move out, i guess i got no choice
[00:21.21]Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[00:31.11]Junkie's in the alley with a baseball bat
[00:32.76]I tried to get away, but i couldn't get far
[00:41.76]Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
[00:42.78]Chorus:
[00:42.96]Don't push me, cause i'm close to the edge
[00:44.64]I'm trying not to loose my head
[00:54.24]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[01:09.72]How i keep from going under
[01:10.35]Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window
[01:11.49]Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes
[01:13.26]Blow
[01:13.44]Crazy lady, livin' in a bag
[01:14.79]Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
[01:15.99]Search and test a tango, skips the life and then go
[01:17.19]To search a prince to see the last of senses
[01:18.15]Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
[01:18.93]So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:20.49]She went to the city and got so so so ditty
[01:21.75]She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her
[01:25.14]Own
[01:25.20]Chorus:
[01:25.53]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[01:27.45]How i keep from goin' under
[01:28.02]My brother's doing fast on my mother's t.v.
[01:29.04]Says she watches to much, is just not healthy
[01:31.17]All my children in the daytime, dallas at night
[01:32.64]Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight
[01:34.20]Bill collectors they ring my phone
[01:34.89]And scare my wife when i'm not home
[01:36.45]Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[01:37.62]Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike
[01:39.18]At the station
[01:39.48]Me on king kong standin' on my back
[01:40.20]Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[01:41.19]Midrange, migraine, cancered membrane
[01:43.14]Sometimes i think i'm going insane, i swear i might
[01:44.67]Hijack a plane!
[01:46.59]Chorus:
[01:47.01]My son said daddy i don't wanna go to school
[01:48.30]Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think i'm a
[01:49.95]Fool
[01:51.54]And all the kids smoke reefer, i think it'd be
[01:52.86]Cheaper
[02:03.87]If i just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[02:04.95]I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[02:05.61]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[02:07.59]Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing
[02:08.64]Funny
[02:09.81]You got to have a con in this land of milk and
[02:10.92]Honey
[02:12.72]They push that girl in front of a train
[02:13.50]Took her to a doctor, sowed the arm on again
[02:14.49]Stabbed that man, right in his heart
[02:15.18]Gave him a transplant before a brand new start
[02:16.41]I can't walk through the park, cause it's crazy
[02:18.30]After the dark
[02:18.75]Keep my hand on the gun, cause they got me on the
[02:20.13]Run
[02:20.88]I feel like an outlaw, broke my last fast jaw
[02:21.75]Hear them say you want some more, livin' on a
[02:22.71]Seesaw
[02:22.83]Chorus:
[02:22.98]A child was born, with no state of mind
[02:24.30]Blind to the ways of mankind
[02:25.77]God is smiling on you but he's frowning too
[02:50.40]Cause only god knows what you go through
[02:51.15]You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
[02:52.11]And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[02:52.89]The places you play and where you stay
[02:53.61]Looks like one great big alley way
[02:55.11]You'll admire all the number book takers
[02:55.95]Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers
[02:57.18]Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[03:29.97]And you wanna grow up to be just like them
[03:30.81]Smugglers, scrambles, burglars, gamblers
[03:31.80]Pickpockets, peddlers and even pan-handlers
[03:32.97]You say i'm cool, i'm no fool
[03:34.98]But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[03:35.91]Now you're unemployed, all null 'n' void
[03:37.89]Walking around like you're pretty boy floyd
[03:39.30]Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
[03:40.80]Got send up for a eight year bid
[03:42.06]Now your man is took and you're a may tag
[03:43.38]Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
[03:44.85]Being used and abused, and served like hell
[04:00.63]Till one day you was find hung dead in a cell
[04:03.00]It was plain to see that your life was lost
[04:03.87]You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[04:06.33]But now your eyes sing the sad sad song
[04:07.05]Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[04:11.97]Chorus: