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Just To Keep You Satisfied

This version of Just To Keep You Satisfied was released by Marvin Gaye in 1973.

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You were my wife, my life, my hopes and dreams
For you to understand what this means, I shall explain
I stood all the jealousy, all the bitchin’ too
Yes, I’d forget it all once in bed with you
Ooo darling how could we end up like this?
Oh baby let me reminisce

Oh and when we, woo, stopped the hands of time
You set my soul on fire, my one desire
Was to love you and think of you with pride
And keep you satisfied, oh baby oh baby
We could not bear the mental strain
Leave you, I laugh at men too
Now you see how much you hurt me
But if you ever need me, I’ll be by your side
Though the many happy times we had
Can never really outweigh the bad
Oh I’ll never love nobody like I loved you baby

It’s time for us to say farewell, farewell my darlin’
Maybe we’ll meet down the line
It’s too late for you and me, it’s too late for you and I
Much too late for you to cry
It’s too late for you and me, much too late for you and I
It’s too late for you and me, much too late for you to cry baby
Ah we tried, God knows we tried
Now it’s too late to live and love and ah it’s too late baby
It’s too late for you and me, much too late for you to cry
Oh oh ohhh it’s much too late
Well, all we can do is, we can both try to be happy

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Marvin Gaye has released many songs over the years besides Just To Keep You Satisfied. Marvin Gaye released songs from 1961 to 1985 spanning across albums like The Soulful Moods Of Marvin Gaye, That Stubborn Kinda Fella, Together, How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You, Moods Of Marvin Gaye, Take Two, United, You're All I Need, I Heard It Through The Grapevine, Easy, M.P.G., That's The Way Love Is, What's Going On, Trouble Man, Let's Get It On, Diana & Marvin, I Want You, Here, My Dear, Midnight Love, Romantically Yours, and Dream Of A Lifetime. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Marvin Gaye.

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The lyrics to Just To Keep You Satisfied are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Marvin Gaye used when the song was created in 1973. The lyrics to Just To Keep You Satisfied have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Marvin Gaye and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Just To Keep You Satisfied by Marvin Gaye. 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 Just To Keep You Satisfied" means the words set to the music of Just To Keep You Satisfied, 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 Just To Keep You Satisfied and the lyrics to Just To Keep You Satisfied 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 Just To Keep You Satisfied, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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