Lyrics to
Inheritance

This version of Inheritance was released by Scorpions in 1972.

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Test the mend, devil melt
Bloody money when it’s lent
Scum repair everywhere
They want money, oh

Heavenly won’t it be
Here’s some money
Belong to thee
I will pay they will say
Give your money, oh

Obligator came and said to me
Why don’t you pay your debt
The debt that you amend
Asking him forgive on his demand
For I am with a mate
Despite in her return
Remittance of the debt
I can’t accept
He told me and he capped
Quite time on his demand

Imaginations came into my brain
Cause if you patients came
That brings me in my break

Test the mend, devil mend
Bloody money when it’s lent
Scum repair everywhere
They want money, oh

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Scorpions has released many songs over the years besides Inheritance. Scorpions released songs from 1972 to 2007 spanning across albums like Lonesome Crow, Fly To The Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer, Taken By Force, Lovedrive, Animal Magnetism, Blackout, Love At First Sting, Savage Amusement, Crazy World, Face The Heat, Pure Instinct, Eye II Eye, Moment Of Glory, Unbreakable, and Humanity - Hour 1. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Scorpions.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Inheritance, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Scorpions. Some of the lyrics to Inheritance have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Scorpions and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Inheritance if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Inheritance" means the words set to the music of Inheritance, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Scorpions. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Inheritance and the lyrics to Inheritance are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Scorpions who came here looking just for the lyrics to Inheritance, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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