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 p#####'
On the stage 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 a 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 tryin'
Not to lose my head
Ah huh ha ha
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
Rollin' as the breezes blow
A crazy lady livin' in a bag
Eatin' outta garbage pails
Used to be a fag hag
Such a dance the tango
Skipped the light fandango
Was hooked on princes
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 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 tryin'
Not to lose my head
Ah huh ha ha
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 tryin'
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
I'd 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 **** 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 seesaw
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 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 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 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 ****
Till 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 tryin'
Not to lose my head
Ah huh ha ha
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder
How I keep
From goin' under
Ha uh huh ha ha
It's like a jungle sometimes
It makes me wonder
How I keep
From goin' under
Ha uh huh ha ha