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Joe Cocker – Inner City Blues (1986) | Track profile | Dork

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Inner City Blues

Release date: 18th April 1986

About This Track

"Inner City Blues" is a track by Joe Cocker, from the album Cocker, released 18th April 1986. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Joe Cocker

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Lyrics

Inner City Blues

Rockets, moon shots

Spend it on the have nots

Money, we make it

Before we see it, you take it

Makes me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Makes me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Listen baby, listen, this ain't livin'

I say no, oh no

Inflation no chance

To increase finance

Bills pile up sky high

Send that boy off to die

It makes me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Makes me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Won't you listen? Yeah

This ain't livin', oh no

Hang ups, let downs

Bad breaks, set backs

Natural fact is

That I can't pay my taxes

It makes me wanna holler

The way they do my life

It make me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Listen, please, listen

Is this livin'? I wanna know now

It make me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Make me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Won't you listen, listen?

Crime is increasing

Trigger happy policing

Panic keep spreading

God knows where we're heading

Make me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Make me wanna holler

The way they do my life

Just listen [Incomprehensible]

Is this livin'? I wanna know

Is this livin'? No, no

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