Chords with lyrics
Note: The song is a single chord played over and over. Above it there's a few melodies playing, they're as follows: Funky bass line A augmentedA line BB |-------------| |-------------| |-5-5-3-------| |-5-3---------| |-------5-3---| |-----5-3-----| |-----------3-| |---------6-3-| Synth (with delay) |-----6-8-6--|-10-8-6------| |-6-8--------|--------8-6--| |------------|-------------| |------------|-------------| |------------|-------------| |------------|-------------|
Chorus: G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under Verse 1: G minorGm Broken glass everywhere G minorGm People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care G minorGm I can't take the smell, can't take the noise G minorGm Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice G minorGm Rats in the front room, roaches in the back G minorGm Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat G minorGm I tried to get away but I couldn't get far G minorGm Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car
Chorus: G minorGm Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge G minorGm I'm trying not to lose my head G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under Verse 2: G minorGm Standing on the front stoop hanging out the window G minorGm Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow G minorGm Crazy lady, living in a bag G minorGm Eating out of garbage pails, used to be a fag hag G minorGm Said she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango G minorGm A augmentedA Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses G minorGm Down at the peep show watching all the creeps G minorGm So she can tell her stories to the girls back home G minorGm She went to the city and got social security G minorGm She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own Chorus: G minorGm Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge G minorGm I'm trying not to lose my head G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under Verse 3: G minorGm My brother's doing bad, stole my mother's TV G minorGm Says she watches too much, it's just not healthy G minorGm All My Children in the daytime, Dallas at night G minorGm Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight G minorGm The bill collectors, they ring my phone G minorGm And scare my wife when I'm not home G minorGm Got a bum education, double-digit inflation G minorGm Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station G minorGm Neon King Kong standing on my back G minorGm Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac G minorGm A augmentedA mid-range migraine, cancered membrane G minorGm Sometimes I think I'm going insane G minorGm I swear I might hijack a plane! Chorus: G minorGm Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge G minorGm I'm trying not to lose my head G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under Interlude: G minorGm Verse 4: G minorGm My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school G minorGm 'Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool G minorGm And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper G minorGm If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper G minorGm Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet G minorGm Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps G minorGm 'Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny G minorGm You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey G minorGm They pushed that girl in front of the train G minorGm Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again G minorGm Stabbed that man right in his heart G minorGm Gave him a transplant for a brand new start G minorGm I can't walk through the park 'cause it's crazy after dark G minorGm Keep my hand on my gun 'cause they got me on the run G minorGm I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw G minorGm Hear them say "You want some more " G minorGm Living on a see-saw Chorus: G minorGm Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge G minorGm I'm trying not to lose my head G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under Verse 5: G minorGm A augmentedA child is born with no state of mind G minorGm Blind to the ways of mankind G minorGm God is smiling on you but he's frowning too G minorGm Because only God knows what you'll go through G minorGm You'll grow in the ghetto living second-rate G minorGm And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate G minorGm The places you play and where you stay G minorGm Looks like one great big alleyway G minorGm You'll admire all the number-book takers G minorGm Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers G minorGm Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens G minorGm And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh G minorGm Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers G minorGm Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers G minorGm You say "I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool" G minorGm But then you wind up dropping outta high school G minorGm Now you're unemployed, all null and void G minorGm Walking round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd G minorGm Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did G minorGm Got sent up for a eight-year bid G minorGm Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag G minorGm Spend the next two years as a undercover fag G minorGm Being used and abused to serve like hell G minorGm Til one day, you was found hung dead in the cell G minorGm It was plain to see that your life was lost G minorGm You was cold and your body swung back and forth G minorGm But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song G minorGm Of how you lived so fast and died so young so Chorus: G minorGm Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge G minorGm I'm trying not to lose my head G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm It makes me wonder how I keep from going under G minorGm It's like a jungle sometimes G minorGm
Other versions of The Message
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for The message by Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five
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