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Marvin Gaye – Save the Children
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[Verse 1] / I just want to ask a question: / Who really cares, to save a world in despair? / Who really cares? (Ohhh) / There'll come a time (There'll come a time) / When the world
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Marvin Gaye – Save The Children (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / I just want to ask a question: / Who really cares / To save a world in despair? / Who really cares? / There'll come a time (There'll come a time) / When the world won't
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Bono – Save the Children
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I just want to ask a question / Who really cares? / To save a world in despair / There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin' / Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin
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Diana Ross – Medley: Brown Baby/Save the Children
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Brown baby / Brown baby / As you grow up / I want you to drink from the plenty cup / I want you to stand up / Tall and proud / I want you to speak up / Speak up clear and cloud
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Marvin Gaye – Stage Dialogue
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[Interlude] / Ah yeah now now / Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah / Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah / Ladies and gentlemen / This has been my very first attempt / Coming back
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Marvin Gaye – God Is Love (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / Oh, don't go and talk about my Father / (Don't talk about my Father) / God is my friend (Jesus is my friend) / He made this world for us to live in / (Made this world
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Frank Ocean – Sierra Leone
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In “Sierra Leone,” Frank talks to a (fictional) younger version of himself who fooled around and got a girl pregnant.
He uses the extended metaphor of Sierra Leone’s “pink skies
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Marvin Gaye – What's Happening Brother (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / Hey baby, what'cha know good? / I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would / War is hell, when will it end? / When will people start gettin' together again? / Are things
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Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (Rhythm 'n' Strings Mix)
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[Instrumental] / [Chorus] / What's going on / What's going on / What's going on / What's going on / [Instrumental]
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Genius – Kanye West's 2019 Sunday Services
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After the aborted release of Yandhi in September and then December 2018, Kanye began a series of Sunday afternoon jam sessions in 2019. With a heavy Gospel presence and boisterous
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Marvin Gaye – Wholy Holy (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / Ah, wholy holy / Come together (Come together) / Wholy holy (Wholy holy, come together) / Gotta come together, ah yeah / And I know with the strength, power, and all the
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Marvin Gaye – Sad Tomorrows
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“Sad Tomorrows” is the demo version of the classic song “Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)”, from the What’s Going On album. It was released as the b-side of “Mercy Mercy Me (The
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Marvin Gaye – God is Love (Live 1972)
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[Verse] / Oh, don't go and talk about my Father / Because God is my friend (God is my friend) / He made this world for us to live in, and gave us everything / And all He asks of us
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Marvin Gaye – Head Title a.k.a. Distant Lover
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On “Head Title”, we hear Marvin Gaye freestyling over the luscious instrumental that would eventually become “Distant Lover”.
This was one of a series of tracks Gaye cut in
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Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - Detroit MIx
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[Intro] / Dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah / Dah, dah, dah / [Verse 1] / Rockets, moon shots / Spend
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Marvin Gaye – What's Happening Brother (Live 1972)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Hey baby, what you know good / I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would / War is hell -- when will it end? / When will people start
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Marvin Gaye – God Is Love (Single Version)
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[Verse 1] / Don't go and say things 'bout my father / God is my friend (I love Him) / He made this world for us to live in / He gave us everything / And all He asks of us / Is we
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Marvin Gaye – What's Going On (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Mother, mother, there's too many of you crying / Brother, brother, brother / There's far too many of you dying / You know we've got to find a way / To bring some lovin
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Marvin Gaye – Right On (Live 1972)
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[Intro] / Hey baby / That's alright, baby / I know that's alright / Every day, that's alright, yeah / Lordy Lord Lord, I know that's alright, baby / Yeah, that's alright, sugar
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Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Reprise) (Live 1972)
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / I'm gonna dedicate this to my mother and father / Mr. and Mrs. Gaye, who are in the audience / I'd like you to acknowledge them, ladies and
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Marvin Gaye – Right On (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Hey baby / That's alright, people / I know that's alright / Every day, that's alright / Oh, when we love each other / I know that's alright / Oh, feel it, feel it / Oh
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Marvin Gaye – It's Madness
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[Verse 1] / World, I'm not the same / I can't remember my name half the time / I took a walk - I thought I'd get some air / But was really not aware of what I said or what I did
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2Pac – Keep Ya Head Up
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2Pac may have been a gangsta, but he had feelings too! This is a feminist anthem from Pac, with references to pro-choice politics and what one might call “rape culture”.
In a 1995
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Marvin Gaye – What's Going On
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What’s Going On is an exquisite plea for peace on Earth, sung by a man at the height of crisis. In 1970, Marvin Gaye was Motown’s top male vocal star, yet he was frustrated by the
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Dr. Cornel West – In Memory of Marvin Gaye
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This essay, written in the immediate aftermath of Gaye’s passing, was originally published in the journal Christianity and Crisis. It has also been anthologized in the books
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Marvin Gaye – Piece of Clay
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[Verse 1] / Father, stop criticizing your son / Mother, please, leave your daughters alone / Don't you see that's what wrong / With the world with world today? Oh / [Chorus
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Marvin Gaye – Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky) (Detroit Mix)
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[Verse] / Flyin' high in the friendly sky, flyin' high / Without ever leavin' the ground, no / Rest of the folks are tired and weary, oh Lord / And have laid their bodies down
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Marvin Gaye – What's Going On (Live 1972)
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[Intro] / Hoo... / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Mother, mother / There's too many of you crying / Brother, brother, brother, woo-hoo / There's far too many of you dying
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Marvin Gaye – I Love The Ground You Walk On - Instrumental
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Marvin Gaye – Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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“Inner City Blues” depicts the ghettos of inner-city America as it discusses the bleak economic situation set against the backdrop of the space race, the Vietnam War and the
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Marvin Gaye – Sixties Medley
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[Intro] / Yeah / Woo-hoo / Woo, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, baby / Woo, woo, oh Lord / [Part 1: That's the Way Love Is] / [Verse 1] / As the bitter tears fall from your eyes / A
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Marvin Gaye – What's Happening Brother
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The second song on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On tells a story of a soldier coming back to the United States after fighting in Vietnam, and the adjustments to culture that he has
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Marvin Gaye – Right On
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Marvin Gaye was many things. A chronicler of the times, a believer, a sexual healer and a superstar musician but, above all else, he was a man who aimed to touch the souls of
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Marvin Gaye – Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
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“Flying High (In the Friendly Sky)” is based around the concept of Marvin Gaye’s drug use. At this point in his life, he was still mainly smoking marijuana but he’d later delve
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Marvin Gaye – Anger
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One of Here, My Dear’s most honest moments of self-reflection arrives in the fourth track, “Anger”. In it, Marvin sings of the regret he feels when he allows rage to overwhelm him
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Big Sean (Ft. John Legend & Kanye West) – One Man Can Change the World
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On this soulful ballad, Sean invites label mates Kanye West and John Legend along as he reflects on the positive influences in his life, the struggles he faced throughout his
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Marvin Gaye – Wholy Holy
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Wholly holy / Come together / Wholly holy / People, we all got to come together / 'Cause we need the strength, power and all the feeling / Wholly holy (Oh Lord) / Get together, one
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Marvin Gaye – Sanctified Lady
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Initially recorded to be included in Midnight Love, Gordon Banks, Marvin’s longtime collaborator and brother-in-law, reworked the unfinished track and included it in the soul
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Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
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This song mourns the destruction of the environment in a modernized society. Oil catastrophies, radioactive waste, and overpopulation… we even Almost Lost Detroit.
In his
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Marvin Gaye – God Is Love
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Track 5 on What’s Going On, an album which on July 22, 2013, was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for shipments of 300,000 albums.
In this song, Marvin
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Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston – I Couldn't Help Falling For You
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[Verse 1: Marvin Gaye] / I used to be a stubborn kind of fella, babe / A real mean-hearted guy, I was so mean / 'Til you came along and got a hold of this old heart of mine / Yes
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Marvin Gaye (Ft. Gladys Knight & The Pips) – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Live)
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[Verse 1: Gladys Knight] / Ooh-ooh, I bet you're wonderin' how I knew / 'Bout your plans to make me blue / With some other girl you knew before / Between the two of us girls / You
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Marvin Gaye – Lonely Lover
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[Verse 1] / Lonely lover, crying through the night / 'Cause the one you love has left you / Lonely lover, crying alone in the dark / Your sighing just breaks my heart / I hear you
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Marvin Gaye – The Star-Spangled Banner
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Say... / Can you see / By the dawn's early light / What so proudly we hailed / At the twilight's last gleaming? / Whose broad stripes & bright stars / Through the perilous fight
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