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It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

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

Rats in the front room roaches in the back

Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat

I tried to get away but I couldn't get far

Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

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' outta 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

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 social security

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 lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

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 daytime dallas at night

Can't even see the game or the sugar ray fight

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

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 goin' insane

I swear I might hijack a plane

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

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

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

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

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 a outlaw broke my last glass jaw

Hear them say "you want some more "

Livin' on a see saw

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

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

You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second rate

And your eyes will sing a song called 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 huh

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

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

Bein' used and abused to serve like hell

Til one day you was found hung dead in the cell

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 so

Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge

I'm trying not to lose my head

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

It's like a jungle sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under