{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2083571,"song":"The Message","artist":"Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11452796-the-message-chords-by-grandmaster-flash-the-furious-five/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2083571?type=chord","rating":4.5374,"votes":11,"content":"Note:\r\nThe song is a single chord played over and over.\r\nAbove it there's a few melodies playing,\r\n they're as follows:\r\n\r\n\r\nFunky bass\r\n\r\n[tab] line A          line B\r\n|-------------| |-------------|\r\n|-5-5-3-------| |-5-3---------|\r\n|-------5-3---| |-----5-3-----|\r\n|-----------3-| |---------6-3-|[/tab]\r\n\r\nSynth (with delay)\r\n\r\n[tab]|-----6-8-6--|-10-8-6------|\r\n|-6-8--------|--------8-6--|\r\n|------------|-------------|\r\n|------------|-------------|\r\n|------------|-------------|\r\n|------------|-------------|[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBroken glass everywhere[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nPeople pissing on the stairs, you know they just don't care[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI can't take the smell, can't take the noise[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nGot no money to move out, I guess I got no choice[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nRats in the front room, roaches in the back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nJunkies in the alley with a baseball bat[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI tried to get away but I couldn't get far[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nCause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDon't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI'm trying not to lose my head[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nStanding on the front stoop hanging out the window[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nWatching all the cars go by, roaring as the breezes blow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nCrazy lady, living in a bag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nEating out of garbage pails, used to be a fag hag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nSaid she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nA Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDown at the peep show watching all the creeps[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nSo she can tell her stories to the girls back home[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nShe went to the city and got social security[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nShe had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDon't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI'm trying not to lose my head[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nMy brother's doing bad, stole my mother's TV[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nSays she watches too much, it's just not healthy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAll My Children in the daytime, Dallas at night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nCan't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nThe bill collectors, they ring my phone[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAnd scare my wife when I'm not home[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nGot a bum education, double-digit inflation[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nCan't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nNeon King Kong standing on my back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nCan't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nA mid-range migraine, cancered membrane[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nSometimes I think I'm going insane[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI swear I might hijack a plane![/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDon't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI'm trying not to lose my head[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Interlude]\r\n\r\n[ch]Gm[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nMy son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\n'Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAnd all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIf I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nOr dance to the beat, shuffle my feet[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nWear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\n'Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nYou got to have a con in this land of milk and honey[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nThey pushed that girl in front of the train[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nTook her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nStabbed that man right in his heart[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nGave him a transplant for a brand new start[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI can't walk through the park 'cause it's crazy after dark[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nKeep my hand on my gun 'cause they got me on the run[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nHear them say \"You want some more?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nLiving on a see-saw[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDon't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI'm trying not to lose my head[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nA child is born with no state of mind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBlind to the ways of mankind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nGod is smiling on you but he's frowning too[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBecause only God knows what you'll go through[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nYou'll grow in the ghetto living second-rate[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAnd your eyes will sing a song called deep hate[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nThe places you play and where you stay[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nLooks like one great big alleyway[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nYou'll admire all the number-book takers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nThugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDriving big cars, spending twenties and tens[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nAnd you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nSmugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nPickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nYou say \"I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBut then you wind up dropping outta high school[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nNow you're unemployed, all null and void[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nWalking round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nTurned stick-up kid, but look what you done did[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nGot sent up for a eight-year bid[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nNow your manhood is took and you're a Maytag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nSpend the next two years as a undercover fag[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBeing used and abused to serve like hell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nTil one day, you was found hung dead in the cell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt was plain to see that your life was lost[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nYou was cold and your body swung back and forth[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nBut now your eyes sing the sad, sad song[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nOf how you lived so fast and died so young so[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nDon't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nI'm trying not to lose my head[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt's like a jungle sometimes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Gm[/ch]\r\nIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under[/tab]","plain_text":"Note:\nThe song is a single chord played over and over.\nAbove it there's a few melodies playing,\n they're as follows:\n\n\nFunky bass\n\n\n\nSynth (with delay)\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Interlude]\n\nGm\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["A","B","Gm"],"chord_diagrams":{"Gm":{"barres":[3],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[3,5,5,3,3,3]}}}