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