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 KingKong

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

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 null and 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

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

a-huh-huh-huh-huh

It's like a jungle sometimes

it makes me wonder

how I keep from goin' under

huh, a-huh-huh-huh-huh

It's like a jungle sometimes

it makes me wonder

how I keep from goin' under

huh, a-huh-huh-huh-huh