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      Broken glass everywhere    People pissing on the stairs, you know they just don’t care    I can't take the smell, I can't take the noise no more   Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice    Rats in the front room, roaches in the back    Junkie's 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 trying not to lose my head, ah huh-huh-huh    [2nd and 5th: ah huh-huh-huh]    [4th: 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       Standing on the front stoop, hangin' out the window    Watching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow    Crazy lady livin' in a bag    Eatin' out of garbage pails, she used to be a fag-hag    Said she danced the tango, skipped the light fandango   The Zircon Princess seemed to lost her senses    Down at the peepshow, watching all the creeps    So she can tell the 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       [2nd Chorus]       My brother's doing bad on 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 going insane, I swear I might hijack a plane       [3rd Chorus]       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 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 seesaw       [4th Chorus]       A child is born with no state of mind    Blind to the ways of mankind    God is smiling on you but he's frowning too    Because only God knows what you’ll go through    You’ll grow in the ghetto, living 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 alley way    You'll admire all the number book takers    Thugs, pimps, pushers and the big money makers    Driving big cars, spending twenties and tens    And you wanna grow up to be just like them, huh,    Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers    Pickpockets, peddlers even panhandlers    You say: “I'm cool, I'm no fool!”    But then you wind up dropping out of high school    Now you're unemployed, all non-void    Walking ‘round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd    Turned stickup kid, look what you’ve done did    Got sent up for a eight year bid    Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag   Spent the next two years as a undercover fag    Being used and abused to serve like hell    'Til one day you was found hung dead in your 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       [5th Chorus]