The Message - Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five

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 a 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 
Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango 
Sitting on princes seems to have 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 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 bad stole 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 
Neon 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