Trouble Man, by Marvin Gaye

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WORLD WAR COVID

Poems, theirs and mine

Trouble Man, by Marvin Gaye

Track 63 on The Master (1961-1984) 

Producer Marvin Gaye

Nov. 21, 1972

[Verse 1]

I come up hard, baby, but now I'm cool

I didn't make it, sugar, playing by the rules

I come up hard, baby, but now I'm fine

I'm checking trouble sugar, moving down the line

I come up hard, baby, but that's okay

'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way

[Post-Verse 1]

I come up hard, baby

I've been for real, baby

Gonna keep moving, gonna go to town

I come up hard, I come up gettin' down

There's only three things, that's for sure

Taxes, death, and trouble, oh

This I've known, baby, this I've known, sugar

Yeah, ain't gonna let it sweat me, babe

[Interlude]

It's got me singing

Yeah, yeah

Woo-ooh

[Verse 2]

I come up hard, baby, I had to fight

Took care of my business with all my might

I come up hard, awful hard, I had to win

Then start all over and win again

I come up hard, but that's okay

'Cause Trouble Man don't get in my way, hey, hey

[Bridge]

I know some places

And I see some faces

I got good connections

They dig my directions

What people say, that's okay

They don't bother me, no

I'm ready to make it

Don't care what the weather

Don't care 'bout no trouble

Got myself together

I feel that kind of protection

That's all around me

[Post-Verse 2]

I come up hard, baby

I've been for real, baby, with the troubled minds

I'm moving, going to town

I come up hard, I come up gettin' down

There's only three things for sure

Taxes, death, and trouble, oh

This I've known, baby, this I've known, baby

Ain't gonna let it sweat me, babe

Woo, oh lord, baby

[Verse 3]

Woo, I come up hard, but now I'm cool

I didn't make it, baby, playing by the rules

I come up hard, baby, now I'm fine

I'm checking trouble, sugar

[Outro]

Hey, moving down the line; oh...

IN FRENCH

NOTE 1 : I’d always misheard Marvin Jr. sing : « I come apart, baby…

NOTE 2: Marvin Sr. (the ultimate Trouble Man) shot his son dead.

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