Lyrics to
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

This version of Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) was released by Marvin Gaye in 1971.

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Dah, dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Rockets, moon shots
Spend it on the have nots
Money, we make it
Fore we see it you take it
Oh, make you wanna holler
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
This ain’t livin’, This ain’t livin’
No, no baby, this ain’t livin’
No, no, no
Inflation no chance
To increase finance
Bills pile up sky high
Send that boy off to die
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
Make me wanna holler
The way they do my life
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Hang ups, let downs
Bad breaks, set backs
Natural fact is
I can’t pay my taxes
Oh, make me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Yea, it makes me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
Crime is increasing
Trigger happy policing
Panic is spreading
God know where we’re heading
Oh, make me wanna holler
They don’t understand
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah
Dah, dah, dah

Mother, mother
Everybody thinks we’re wrong
Who are they to judge us
Simply cause we wear our hair long

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About Lyrics and Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) by Marvin Gaye

When you decide to study the lyrics to Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Marvin Gaye. Some of the lyrics to Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Marvin Gaye and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) 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 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" means the words set to the music of Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Marvin Gaye. 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 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) and the lyrics to Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Marvin Gaye who came here looking just for the lyrics to Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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