Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Message II (Survival), artist - Grandmaster Flash.
Date of issue: 31.12.1999
Song language: English
Message II (Survival) |
Survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
They smile in your face and they talk behind your back |
And when you get the story, it’s never exact |
Some say, they’re your friends but they really are not because they are only |
out to try and get what you’ve got |
Survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
In jail they got a game and they call it survival |
They run it down to you on your first arrival |
They tell you what you can and what you cannot do, so if you ever go to jail, |
watch your «mm-mm» |
It’s called survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
I went looking for a job, every day last week but it turned into a crazy game |
of «hide and seek» |
Because every place that I seemed to look, a job wasn’t there |
I might as well apply for food-stamps or welfare |
It’s called survival and only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival and only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
Like Hercules, you body is strong but your mind is like the Devil, |
your ideals are wrong |
You hurt people’s feelings and mess with their minds |
Didn’t have the nerve to call me brother and wave the peace sign |
The young and the old, they all hate your sight because of people like you, |
they’re scared to walk in the night |
It’s called survival and only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival and only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
The problems of the world today are bigger than life |
You have recessions and depressions, men are cheating on their wives |
Babies born each morn' with parts of their bodies gone because of some crazy |
drug that their mothers was on This country is fightin' not unitin', always putting each other down |
Blacks and whites don’t realize that they’re really pink and brown |
You got; |
gun tootin' cut-throats, stress and strife and looking out for number |
one is a way of live |
It’s called survival and only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival and only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
You’ve got to lock all your windows, chain up all your doors to protect what’s |
inside of your houses' stores |
Beware of the food, it might be no good 'cause there’s someone trying to poison |
the whole neighbourhood |
Today they found something in somebody’s store |
They said, «killed ten people and hurt four more» |
You can’t even trust a pill to make life easier when there’s sudden death on your grocer’s freezer |
Survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
About to lose your mind because life is hard and yet you believe in everything |
but God |
Those pretty women lost of money, yeah, that’s alright but don’t you ever |
forget the man with the might |
Now get a hold of yourself man, think positive because that’s definitely the |
only way to live |
Don’t let you mind flow, like water from a cup and don’t you ever let me hear |
you say that you’re giving up It’s called survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |
Remember: a child is born with no state of mind |
He was 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 |
Survival, only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival and only the strong can survive |
It’s called survival in order to stay alive |
It’s called survival, survival, survival, survival |