
Date of issue: 31.12.1995
Record label: Maverick Recording Company
Song language: English
Make Me Wanna Holler |
My mother used to whore herself |
And my father |
Would reap the benefits of her labor |
It was almost as if she was absent |
Absent from her own life |
I remember |
She would scrub the floors for the white folks |
Just to come home |
To cook and to clean |
For the man who broke her |
And I love to watch her dance to the tunes on |
The soul stations, yeah |
Just to ease her mind |
But my mother |
She was vindictive in her own fashion |
So she passed down to me her traits |
Like that of her brown eyes and her dark hair |
She passed down to me |
Her sadness |
Make me wanna holler |
The sadness fills my heart |
Make me wanna holler |
Make me wanna holler |
Make me wanna holler |
Baby |
Make me wanna holler |
My child will one day ask me |
What will i be? |
As a child i promised myself |
I’d never be |
Like my mother or my father |
I would ask myself |
«did he feel so much pain |
That it would make him wanna hurt another?» |
But there was no excuse |
There was no excuse to make up for the pain |
That i knew my mother felt |
But somewhere my destiny came |
That i too became a slave, to my heart |
Wanting Love so badly |
That i’d do anything |
No matter the shame |
Make me wanna holler |
Love me |
Make me wanna holler |
Tell me |
Make me wanna holler |
Mmm, so sorry |
Make me wanna holler |
So sorry |
Why? |
I never got the nerve |
To ask my father «why?» |
But my mother |
She would say |
She stayed for my brother and myself |
But i would have sold my soul |
Just to share in one day |
Of my mother’s desired happiness |
When night fell |
Sometimes when night fell |
I’d close my eyes |
And i’d hide |
Close your eyes |
When they would yell and scream |
When my father would paint her |
With a dark face |
Of being belittled, disrespected |
And set aside |
His liquor, the salve |
For the unseen wounds |
I learned so much from him |
What did i learn? |
How to hurt all of those |
Who try to get too close |
Make me wanna holler |
Make me wanna holler |
Sometimes i get so… |
Make me wanna holler |
I just don’t understand |
Why? |
Make me wanna holler |
Tell me why |
Mmm, so sorry |
So sorry for the pain |
Make me wanna holler |
So sorry |
I’m so sorry |
Just play for me |
Play for me |
She would close her eyes and cry |
He would close his heart and hide |
She would close her eyes and cry |
After all this time |
Nothing’s changed |
Make me wanna holler |
Make me want to holler |
Yes I do |
Make me wanna holler |
Sell my soul just to see ya happy |
So sorry for the pain |
Make me wanna holler |
So sorry, so sorry, so sorry, yeah |
Make me wanna holler |
So sorry for the pain |
I always thought my mother |
Deserved so much more |
But i never knew how to fix that |
I drown myself in guilt |
I just don’t know what to do |
No |
Mama I Love you |
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