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Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Wildside

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Hip-Hop/Rap

Wildside è stato pubblicato il 1 gennaio 1991 da Interscope come parte dell'album Music for the People

Dettagli della canzone

AlbumMusic for the People

Data di uscita1 gennaio 1991

EtichettaInterscope

Melodicità

Acousticità

Valence

Ballabilità

Energia

BPM105

PANORAMICA

TESTI

Video musicale

Video musicale

Crediti

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Spice

Composer

Lou Reed

Composer

Marky Mark

Composer

Amir Shakir

Writer

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Donnie Wahlberg

Donnie Wahlberg

Producer

Spice

Producer

Testi

[Verse 1]

American the beautiful

Let me introduce y'all to the wildside

[Verse 2]

Annie was a high school cheerleader

Pom poms and bobby socks and no girl was sweeter

Come prom time everybody was on the line

All the fellas singing nickel and dime

Tales about love and lust and trust

But Annie took it in all in stride

'Cause deep inside Annie had aspirations

Besides that, she had expectations

Wanted to be a chemical engineer

Making fifty to fifty-five thousand a year

Her first year of college was a success

But along comes Billy possessed and obsessed

He took Annie on a fatal date

And showed her things that made heartbeats accelerate

Annie took a hit, breathed two short breaths

One for life, the last for death

Now she's gone, a former valedictorian

Ended up becoming a topic for historians

Washed-up dreams, shattered pride

All because Annie took a hit on the wildside

[Verse 3]

Ron had enough of being broke every day

Saying to himself, "There's gotta be a better way"

Cause 9 to 5 wasn't worth the headaches

So ron figured out a faster way to make money

Before you know it, he's a rich man

Gold on every finger of his hand

A brand new BMW, a condo

Ron ended up a John Doe

A body was found in the alley but never claimed

Full of bullet-holes but none to blame

Ron became another victim of homicide

Because he chose to walk on the wildside

[Verse 4]

Charles had everything going for him

A top-paying job, a good life, a good wife

A baby boy on the way any day

A gentleman attitude is all he displayed

Carol was the wife he loved and adored

Her family and friends treated him like an ambassador

One night on the other side of town

A police dispatcher picked up a weird sound

Charles on the car-phone asking for help

Claiming a burglar shot his wife and himself

His pregnant wife lay slumped over

Her dreams corrupted, her young life over

Extensive searches throughout the projects

Put a lot of people through misery and wreck

Everyone a suspect till someone was found

Interrogated 'cause their skin was brown

Then there was Bennett, guilty until proven so

But soon as the case started moving slow

What do you know, sure as a seagull gets webbed toed

Charles was the culprit

The whole plot was an insurance scam

Charles and his brother came up with a plan

Kill Carol, collect a big check

Blame it on a black man, what the heck

And just before the story was known

Charles had a feeling that his cover was blown

So he jumped off a bridge, committed suicide

This is how it is on the wildside

[Verse 5]

Little Tiffany, only thirteen

Came to the city, place of big dreams

Visiting family and friends for the summertime

Sitting on a mailbox, watching the boys climb trees

And the girls play hopscotch

So far her vacation was top-notch

Out of the blue, a Mercedes at top speed

Gangbangers chasing rivals on a stampede

Quick as a blink, shots rang out loud

And a hail of bullets zipped through the crowd

One hit Tiffany and instantly she died

Innocently on the wildside

Written by: Lou Reed, Amir Shakir, Mark Wahlberg

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