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Créditos

AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
Duke Bootee
Duke Bootee
Stimme und Gesang
Melle Mel
Melle Mel
Stimme und Gesang
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash
DJ
Cowboy
Cowboy
Stimme und Gesang
Doug Wimbush
Doug Wimbush
Bass
Dwain Mitchell
Dwain Mitchell
Tasteninstrumente
Ed Fletcher
Ed Fletcher
Percussion/Schlagzeug
Gary Henry
Gary Henry
Tasteninstrumente
Jiggs Chase
Jiggs Chase
Synthesizer
Keith LeBlanc
Keith LeBlanc
Schlagzeug
Kid Creole
Kid Creole
Stimme und Gesang
Reggie Griffin
Reggie Griffin
Synthesizer
Skip McDonald
Skip McDonald
Gitarre
Sylvia Robinson
Sylvia Robinson
Synthesizer
Rahiem
Rahiem
Sprecher:in
Scorpio
Scorpio
Sprecher:in
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Edward Fletcher
Edward Fletcher
Songwriter:in
Sylvia Robinson
Sylvia Robinson
Songwriter:in
Melvin Glover
Melvin Glover
Songwriter:in
Jiggs Chase
Jiggs Chase
Songwriter:in
PRODUKTION UND TECHNIK
Edward Fletcher
Edward Fletcher
Produzent:in
Jiggs Chase
Jiggs Chase
Produzent:in
Sylvia Robinson
Sylvia Robinson
Produzent:in
STEVE JEROME
STEVE JEROME
Ingenieur:in
Nina Rhodes
Nina Rhodes
Ingenieur:in

Letras

[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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