Book of Rhymes #4 Sexual Healing, Marvin Gaye

And honey I know you'll be there to relieve me
The love you give to me will free me
If you don't know the thing you're dealing
Ohh I can tell you, darling, that it's sexual healing

Get up, get up, get up, get up
Let's make love tonight
Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up
'Cos you do it right


I love this song by Marvin Gaye. He tells about how beautiful love can help heal many tribulations that may fall upon someone. Companionship is sometimes the only thing you may need. Although many songs nowadays preach the same thing the descriptions that Gaye uses really help the listener depict and establish an emotional connection to the song, their loved ones, and their future relationships.


The repetition helps the listener replay the visual over and over again of "getting up" and "waking up". This song was rated one of the top in the early 1980's and there is a perfectly good explanation why many still fall in love with it still today because the devices used and the lyrics speak out to any listener of any background.
He uses a unique rhyme scheme that begins at A,A,A, and continues on to an A,B,A,B scheme. He uses slant rhymes and sometimes rhymes words within the same sentence.