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[00:43.52]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:45.95]How I keep from going under
[00:48.10]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[00:49.89]How I keep from going under
[01:02.36]Broken glass everywhere
[01:04.18]People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care
[01:06.95]I can't take the smell, can't take the noise
[01:09.18]Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice
[01:11.42]Rats in the front room, roaches in the back
[01:13.75]Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat
[01:16.47]I tried to get away, but I couldn't get far
[01:18.42]'Cause the man with the tow-truck repossessed my car
[01:21.25]Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[01:26.06]I'm trying not to lose my head
[01:29.83]Ha-ha-ha-ha
[01:31.28]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[01:32.94]How I keep from going under
[01:36.99]Standing on the front stoop, hangin out the window
[01:38.23]Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow
[01:40.24]A crazy lady, livin in a bag
[01:42.59]Eating out of garbage piles, used to be a fag-hag
[01:44.06]Said, she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango
[01:47.74]Was circon princess, seemed to lost her senses
[01:49.94]Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps
[01:52.49]So she can tell the stories to the girls back home
[01:54.65]She went to the city and got Social Security
[01:56.96]She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own
[01:59.28]Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[02:04.12]I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:07.71]Ha-ha-ha-ha
[02:09.12]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[02:10.95]How I keep from going under
[02:13.86]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[02:15.93]How I keep from going under
[02:18.33]My brothers doin' bad, stole my mothers TV
[02:19.94]Says, she watches to much, is just not healthy
[02:22.92]"All my children" in the daytime, "Dallas" at night
[02:25.18]Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight
[02:27.83]The bill collectors, they ring my phone
[02:30.14]And scare my wife when I'm not home
[02:32.84]Got a bum education, double-digit inflation
[02:34.48]Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station
[02:37.86]Neon king kong standin' on my back
[02:39.59]Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac
[02:42.25]A midrange migraine, cancered membrane
[02:45.09]Sometimes I think I'm going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane
[02:47.47]Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[02:51.88]I'm trying not to lose my head
[02:56.88]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[02:58.70]How I keep from going under
[03:01.83]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[03:03.78]How I keep from going under
[03:44.66]My son said, "daddy, I don't wanna go to school
[03:46.36]Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool
[03:48.72]And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper
[03:51.45]If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper
[03:54.02]I dance to the beat, shuffle my feet
[03:56.27]Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps
[03:57.91]'Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny
[04:00.76]You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
[04:03.69]They pushed that girl in front of the train
[04:05.63]Took her to the doctor, sewed the arm on again
[04:07.89]Stabbed that man right in his heart
[04:10.36]Gave him a transplant for a brand new start
[04:13.36]I can't walk through the park, 'cause it's crazy after the dark
[04:15.42]Keep my hand on the gun, 'cause they got me on the run
[04:16.79]I feel like an outlaw, broke my last glass jaw
[04:20.37]Hear them say you want some more, livin on a seesaw
[04:22.90]Don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[04:25.92]I'm trying not to lose my head
[04:31.81]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:34.13]How I keep from going under
[04:37.29]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:39.36]How I keep from going under
[04:41.83]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:46.84]How I keep from going under
[04:48.05]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[04:51.10]How I keep from going under
[04:51.92]A child is born, with no state of mind
[04:53.74]Blind to the ways of mankind
[04:55.81]God is smiling on you, but he's frowning too
[04:57.95]Because only God knows what you go through
[05:00.32]You grow in the ghetto, living second rate
[05:02.88]And your eyes will sing a song of deep hate
[05:05.32]The place that you play and where you stay
[05:07.53]Looks like one great big alley way
[05:10.13]You'll admire all the number book takers
[05:13.23]Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money makers
[05:14.82]Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens
[05:17.04]And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh
[05:19.69]Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers
[05:22.01]Pickpockets, peddlers and even panhandlers
[05:24.59]You say I'm cool, I'm no fool
[05:26.68]But then you wind up dropping out of high school
[05:29.26]Now you're unemployed, all null 'n void
[05:31.35]Walking 'round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd
[05:34.29]Turned stickup kid, look what you done did
[05:36.34]Got send up for a eight year bid
[05:38.72]Now your manhood is took and you're a may tag
[05:41.40]Spend the next two years as an undercover fag
[05:43.26]Being used and abused and served like hell
[05:45.53]Till one day you was found hung dead in a cell
[05:48.13]It was plain to see that your life was lost
[05:50.25]You was cold and your body swung back and forth
[05:53.49]But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song
[05:55.65]Of how you lived so fast and died so young
[05:57.68]So, don't push me, 'cause I'm close to the edge
[06:02.44]I'm trying not to lose my head
[06:08.04]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[06:09.39]How I keep from going under
[06:11.80]Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh
[06:12.56]It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder
[06:14.75]How I keep from going under
[06:15.92]Huh-huh-huh-huh-huh-huh
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