Tracy Chapman

Good girls walk fast In groups of three Fast girls walk slow On side streets Sometimes the girls who walk alone Aren't found for days or weeks On the busy boulevards Bad boys call you names And cruise you hard Bullies laugh and grin and beat Your soft skin ag...

Baby sweet baby Won't you please Come on back home to me I've been so lonely These few days feel like A hundred years How you make me worry baby How you make me worry about you Here I am I'm knowing That I can't live without you Here I am thinking Someday we...

Its just a theory Theres a possibility I am wrong Its just a theory But I would stake my life Lay my money down That you were meant for me And for you Im the one Its just a theory A particular set of assumptions Its just a theory An educated guess A conclusio...

Across the lines Who would dare to go Under the bridge Over the tracks That separates whites from blacks Choose sides run for your lifes Tonight the riots begin On the back streets of america They kill the dream of america Little black girl gets assaulted Ai...

Oh my mama told me 'Cause she say she learned the hard way Say she wanna spare the children She say don't give or sell your soul away 'Cause all that you have is your soul Don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a ta...

Almost got what I want Almost found what I lost Almost saved you and myself Almost won but it doesn't count And never does Never does One green light One more ring of the telephone One more step One more second And I almost Almost Almost got what I want Almo...

You were lost and got lucky Came upon the shore Found you were conquering America You spoke of peace But waged a war While you were conquering America There was land to take And people to kill While you were conquering America You served yourself Did God's wi...

Trouble won't find me Sorrow won't call Sadness will turn away Searching for a new soul Hardship won't come by All pain will cease Somebody will take my place And suffer for me If I never see another sun If I never see another sun If I never see another sun A...

Done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right Oh I, Oh I've Done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right At this point in my life I've done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right If you put your trust in me I hope I wo...

Sorry Is all that you can't say Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like sorry like sorry Forgive me Is all that you can't say Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like forgive me forgive me But you can say baby Baby can I hold you ton...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What you go and do You go and give the boy a gun Now there ain't place to run to Ain't no place to run to When he hold it in his hand He feel mighty he feel strong Now there ain...

I believe in mistakes and accidents That the nature of life is chaos and confusion That man's rules of law and order may not stand I should be and be not afraid to reach for heaven I may think that I know the true hearts needs My pride may bring me low, unabl...

You and your sweet smile You and your tantalizing ways You and your honey lips You and all the sweet things that they say You and your wild wild ways One day you just up and walked away You left me hurting But I can forgive you for that now You taught me some...

I may beg Beg for money I may lie and lay my body down Sell what I would give with love One day before Easter comes But I won't let Jesus find me I walk I eat I sleep In these streets I may be found Alive or dead or just reborn One day before Easter comes But...

Last night I heard the screaming Loud voices behind the wall Another sleepless night for me It won't do no good to call The police Always come late If they come at all And when they arrive They say they can't interfere With domestic affairs Between man and hi...

They're tryin' to take away my pride By stripping me of everything I own They're tryin' to hurt me inside And make me into a white man's drone But this one's not for sale And I was born to fight I ain't been knocked down yet I was born to fight I'm the surest...

All the bridges that you burn Come back one day to haunt you One day you'll find you're walking Lonely Baby I Never meant to hurt you Sometimes the best intentions Still don't make things right But all my ghosts they find me Like my past they think they ow...

You can close your eyes And see the picture perfect life Inside o your mind Dreaming only of the days ahead Wanted and wished for more than now Or the days behind You waste your time The picture makes a promise The flesh lets it be broken The picture makes a...

If you knew that you would die today If you saw the face of God and Love Would you change? Would you change? If you knew that love can break your heart When you're down so low you cannot fall Would you change? Would you change? How bad how good does it need t...

Far between sundown's finish an' midnight's broken toll We ducked inside the doorway, thunder crashing As majestic bells of bolts struck shadows in the sounds Seeming to be the chimes of freedom flashing Flashing for the warriors whose strength is not to fight...

There was a little boy once upon a time Who in spite of his young age and small size knew his mind For every copper penny and clover he would find Make a wish for better days, the end of hard times For no more cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet His clothe...

It's conditional Not for free There are strings attached Tied to me I'll want something back If you agree To be in love with me Hold me hold me in your arms Hold me in your memory Perfect perfect in your gaze Far as my eye can see It's conditional Not for fr...

All you folks think you own my life But you never made any sacrifice Demons they are on my trail I'm standing at the crossroads of the hell I look to the left I look to the right There're hands that grab me on every side All you folks think I got my price At...

If I am right If I can be Constant and faithful You'll find me In my devotion In my devotion What if you find a fault Between my purpose and my deeds And deem me beyond salvation Judge me to be unworthy Of your devotion Of your devotion If this...

Don't dwell on the past Of there was lost and didn't last That summer bloom is fading fast But I'm falling for you Don't dwell on the pain The tears you've cried and autumn rain That that weather is here and come again But I'm waiting for you Don't d...

I know I may be wishing On a world That may never be But I'll keep on wishing No matter how hopeless Or foolish It may seem I'll keep on wishing I'll toss my coins in the fountain Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross...

You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we can make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Any place is better Starting from zero got nothing to lose Maybe we'll make something Me, myself I got nothing to prove You got a fast car I got a pla...

Can't run fast enough Can't hide I can't fly I'm struggling with the limits of this ordinary life I'm just a Just a Just a first try Can't hear what you say Can't see by the light I'm struggling with the limits of this ordinary life I'm just a Jus...

I picture us together Framed in gold leaf On the mantle with the others One big happy family But that snapshot can't be found And I don't trust my memory But it's alright it's alright For a dream I imagine we are gathered But this time not dressed in black T...

Two weeks in a Virginia jail For my lover for my lover Twenty thousand dollar bail For my lover for my lover And everybody thinks That I'me the fool But they don't get Any love from you The things we won't do for love I'd climb a mountain i...

No words to say No words to convey This feeling inside I have for you Deep in my heart Safe from the guards Of intellect and reason Leaving me at a loss For words to express my feelings Deep in my heart Deep in my heart Look at me losing control Thinking I h...

They throwed him in jail And they kept him there Hoping soo he'd die That his body and spirit would waste away And soon after that his mind But every day is born a fool One who thinks that he can rule One who says tomorrow's mine One who wakes one day to find...

Give me one reason to stay here - and I'll turn right back around Give me one reason to stay here - and I'll turn right back around Because I don't want leave you lonely But you got to make me change my mind Baby I got your number and I know that you got mine...

No picnic no barbecue out in the back A yard for parked cars left to rot and forget For chained-up mad dogs for garbage to sit Get lost get lost a part from it I can´t see through it But I can see past With me with me always Without going back Just people an...

For you It’s all in a day One day in a life It’s all in the one word The one word is goodbye For me It’s all in what you say Though you’ve tried to be kind It’s all in the words From the lips that once touched mine with a sigh Goodbye For you It’s all in you...

Should be happy to be loved Happy to be Unburdened by the thought I could still be lonely I think you're the one Everyone agrees But some can see the face of love And turn away in disbelief Every time we get close I just run And the wind on my face...

Your wants desires Needs and wishes Will be duly noted Processed filed and cataloged Labeled and encoded Turned into sitcom dialog And advertising slogans We've got a box to put in your brain Hard wired for downloading All the secrets and the mysteries You've...

You can look to the stars in search of the answers Look for God and life on distant planets Have your faith in the ever after While each of us holds inside the map to the labyrinth And heaven's here on earth We are the spirit the collective conscience We crea...

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl And God I know I'm one My mother she's a tailor She sews those new bluejeans My father he's a gamblin' man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler ne...

When all my hopes and dreams Have been betrayed I stand before you My hands are empty I am yours If you are mine When I fall and stumble Flat on my face When I'm shamed and humbled In disgrace I am yours If you are mine When voices call me To...

A Cosmopolitan a Manhattan Call me one Pour a round for me and my friends Cape Cod Sea Breeze Long Island Ice Teas I won't go there or drink it if you paid me When they come to waylay me When the close in for the capture I did it all I did it all Fo...

I used to be a sailor Who sailed across the seas But now I'm just an island Since they took my boat away from me Oh no I don't like being stationary I like the rocky wavy motions of the sea I sit and rot behind these padded walls Hoping one day they'll fall A...

I want to wake up and know where I'm going Say I'm ready Say I'm ready I want to go where the rivers are overflowing and I'll be ready I'll be ready to let the rivers wash over me I'm ready to let the rivers wash over me If the waters can redeem me I'm ready...

If not now, then when? If not today, Then, why make your promises? A love declared for days to come, Is as good as none. You can wait 'til morning comes. You can wait for the new day. You can wait and lose this heart. You can wait and soon be sorry. If not n...

If these are the things that Dreams are made of Why don't I dream Anymore I've tried to tell myself Nothing's changed my dear But I look around me And think maybe that's not so I only have nightmares And wake up with cold sweat Coming through my pores Why d...

Make me fumble Make me fall Make my heart stop and start To tremble uncontrollably Let my eyes see fear make desire Keep those who long apart Forbid the kiss And leave us innocent Of the things some do in the dark The things some do in the dark The things som...

It's OK Love is only meant for some I'm the rock The shoulder you can cry on I keep the walls from falling down I keep the walls from falling down I keep the walls from falling down I'll play it straight While you laugh and drink and party all night long I'l...

You and me Had some history Had a semblance of honesty All that has changed now We shared words Only lovers speak How can it be We are less than strangers Oh, it hurts to lose in love Let anger and cruelty win It's unfair that you doubt your feelings And tha...

Let it rain As I walk these streets unknown To no one named Not even myself When I'm low Give me hope That help is coming When I need it most Give me hope That help is coming When I need it most Let it go No mother no father no home Forget as all others Have...

I want you, try to forget her In your heart you know that she'll never love you, love you, love you I want you, try to forget her She won't call or write you a letter of love, love, love's proof I want you, try to forget her Give her time, you'll wait foreve...

You in your fancy Material world Don't see the links of chain Binding blood Our own ancestors Are hungry ghosts Closets so full of bones They won't close Call it upward mobility But you've been sold down the river Just another form of slavery And...

I lose my head From time to time I make a fool of myself In matters of the heart We should have been holding each other Instead we talked I make a fool of myself In matters of the heart But I asked before Your reply was kind and polite One wants more When on...

The life I've always wanted I guess I'll never have I'll be working for somebody else Until I'm in my grave I'll be dreaming of life of ease And mountains o' things To have a big expensive car Drag my furs on the ground And have a maid that I can tell To brin...

Say I have known some Less than I should Say I have known some Too well for my own good Say I´m a saint of mercy Say I´m a whore I´ve been a lot of things But never yours I wear my mama´s dress Her finest clothes Daddy showed me outside To meet you on the fro...

The whole world's broke and it ain't worth fixing It's time to start all over, make a new beginning There's too much pain, too much suffering Let's resolve to start all over make a new beginning Now don't get me wrong I love life and living But when you wake...

Good times and bad Seen them both Hope fly out the window Fortune walk through the door Learned not to believe This is as good as it gets Because we ain't seen nothing yet Hands untied But the same shuffle once again Running all the time Ain't going nowhere I...

O holy night the stars are brightly shining This is the night of our dear Savior's birth Long lay the world in sin and error pining Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new glorious morn...

If love is what you want Baby here I am If tenderness is what you need I've got that to give If you need some affection Baby these are open arms Open arms, open arms, open arms, open arms You come hem you've had a hard day Every door you tried to open Was clos...

To my father what of your sons? All of your children Even the ones Sent out to martyr To face the gun Precious bodies opposed to bombs Led on led on To take the path Where our bright future Is in our past To our father what of reason? Say what you will Belie...

Cold wind blows Shivers loose Hard rain To my skin soaked through So over in love with you I don't even care Sky turns grey Black and blue Fall on me I can't be moved So over in love with you I don't even care Hot sun shines And lays bare Shadows cross cut...

Touched the mirror Broke the surface of the water Saw my true self All illusions shattered Money's only paper only ink We'll destroy ourselves if we can't agree How the world turns Who made the sun Who owns the sea The world we know will fall piece by piece...

There are locks on the doors And chains stretched across all the entries to the inside There's a gate and a fence And bars to protect from only God knows what lurks outside Who stole your heart left you with a space That no one and nothing can fill Who stole...

Save a place for me Save a space for me In your heart In your heart Save a place for me Save a space for me In your heart In your heart If you wait, I will come for you If you wait, I will come for you If you wait, I will come for you If you wait If you wai...

I know Jesus loves me In my heart I know it's true I know Mary's little baby Came into the world Just to save me But I don't know about you My Gods a mighty big God My God can shake the world up Plagues and famines Frogs and locusts Walking on water Burning b...

say hallelujah throw up your hands the bucket is kicked the body is gone close your eyes and bow your head to rest your soul and to praise the dead say hallelujah throw up your hands the bucket is kicked the body is gone dry your eyes and stand upright put...

She's got her ticket I think she gonna use it I think she going to fly away No one should try and stop her Persuade her with their power She says that her mind is made Up Why not leave why not Go away Too much hatred Corruption and greed Give your life And inv...

Where are The sunny days The blue skies The flowers for the children The colors for their eyes? Don't you see Don't you see All these things now days Come in short supply It's time that we It's time that we Make a space in our hearts And open our eyes Wh...

One, two, .. one, two, three, four Sweet and high at the break of dawn Simple tune that you can hum along too I remember there was a time When I used to sing for you Do do do, do do do Do do do, do do do Do do do, do do do I used to sing for you Do...

I'd heard rumors and I'd heard talk About the trail you'd left of broken hearts About the sea of tears too wide to cross But a little bad press has never scared me off So I burned a path to figure out How to get me some of what you got I've got a red hot heart...

So you make a little money Off of somebody else's sweat So some people starve a little While you get fat While you get fat So you grind and grind And you push and shove And claim that those most worthy Will get what they deserve What they deserve It can't be...

No war no greed That would be something to see I hope I live that long No blood in the streets Just a distant memory The history books recount Now were all free Now were all free No war no greed That would be something to see I hope I live that long No wan...

Sorry It's all that you can't say Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like sorry, like sorry Perdonami È uma parola che Tu non dice mai E non ti è facile dirme Perdonami Perdonami But you can say it baby Baby can I hold you tonight M...

Unsettled hearts Promise what they can't deliver Bring me the wine And the cold night air to clear my head Gray matter memory house Master of this trembling flesh Steady still my doubts Let me speak the word that precedes bliss Let me speak the word Let me spe...

There's a cloud There's a cloud A blue sky darkening That veils the light of the sun And foretells the rain But there's a bird There are birds And some are singing To greet every new day that may come Like the first of spring It is cold It is cold...

When the night has come And the land is dark And the moon is the only light we see No, I won't be afraid No, I won't be afraid Just as long as you stand, stand by me Oh, darling, darling stand by me Oh, stand by me Oh, stand, stand by me If the sky w...

1. There was joy (now)There is just pain inside It's been a long long Long long time Still I cry Well I thought That all wounds heal in time I can sing To get you off my mind Still I cry This is love? What does sorrow means? If I had a choice I'd forget you...

People say it doesn't exist 'Cause no one would like to admit That there is a city underground Where people live everyday Off the waste and decay Off the discards of their fellow man Here in subcity life is hard We can't receive any government relief I'd like...

My sweet one My sad-eyed little lover My sweet one I swear there are no others But you, but you, but you, but you, but you Baby At night-time Only sometime I get kind of lonely And this old roaming heart of mine It starts searching on its own, and I swear my...

Should I try to take you in? Another fool brought to the fold With not a gaze or arms but deathlike grip to hold To hold To hold To hold Should I try to take you in? And hope for the prefect docile pet Hope that you´ll not defile or wreck my home Sw...

Got to talk to you, baby, Talk to you now Say it isn't too late Slamming the door, walking out I got a feeling Feelings don't lie Don't let the words escape me now Escape me now Escape me now Got to talk to you, baby, Talk to you now Say it isn't too late See...

Don't you know They're talkin' about a revolution It sounds like a whipser Don't you know They're talkin' about a revolution It sounds like a whisper While they're standing in the welfare lines Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation Wast...

Say it say it say it Tell it like it is Say it say it say it Tell it like it is What breaks your heart What keeps you awake at night What makes you want to breakdown and cry But say you'll never turn your back Say you'll never harden to the world Say you'll...

There is fiction in the space between The lines on your page of memories Write it down but it doesn't mean You're not just telling stories There is fiction in the space between You and me There is fiction in the space between You and reality You will do and...

From the water From the rock and the dirt You were The first person on earth Oh the mountains And the oceans Wiynessed your birth The first person on earth By a river On the banks of a sandy shore Untouched clean fresh and pure The first person on earth In...

The love that you had In your heart is gone Any touch of sincerity Any trace of compassion What hardened your heart? What turned it to stone? What made you forget? You were in love with someone Your hands don't reach out Your voice doesn't call me I know you...

She was the only one Of my flesh and blood Now I have no calling I can do no worldly good I sit silent I sit mourning I sit listless all the day I've mostly lost the voice to speak And any words to say except Does heaven have enough angels yet? I've gone har...

If you wait for me Then I'll come for you Although I've traveled far I always hold a place for you in my heart If you think of me, If you miss me once in awhile Then I'll return to you I'll return and fill that space in your heart Remembering your touch, y...

Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the world This the beginning of the end This the most heinous of crimes This the deadliest of sins The greatest violation of all time Mother of us all Place of our birth We al...

The thrill is gone The thrill is gone away The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away You know you done me wrong baby And you'll be sorry someday The thrill is gone It's gone away from me The thrill is gone baby The thrill is gone away from me Although I...

Come gather round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you is worth saving Then you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone For the times, th...

I used to think About what's real and true What can not be proven What can be assumed Once when I was younger In the bloom of youth I received an honest answer When a lie would do And now all I do is sit In my darkened room And on occasion b...

This time I won't show I'm vulnerable This time I won't give in first This time I will hold out with my love This time I will not be hurt I'm gonna love myself More than anyone else I'm gonna treat me right I'm gonna make you say That you love me first And y...

Don't worry about a thing Cause every little thing is gonna be alright Singing don't worry about a thing, Cause every little thing is gonna be alright, Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun Three little birds, Singing sweet songs, of melodies pure...

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick and think of you Caught up in circles Confusion is nothing new Flashback Warm nights almost left behind Suitcase of memories Time after Sometimes you picture me I'm walking too far ahead You're calling to me I can't hear...

There would be songs sung by a choir I would have a white robe, a halo newly acquired I’d be at peace and I’d have no desire If I’d lived right There would be cherubs, tiny harps, arrows and bows I’d have a halo and a flowing white robe I’d be enfolded...

I've been having dreams and visions In them you are always standing Right beside me I reach out for your hand To see your arms extending outstretched towards me For you I don the veil By your light Others pale by comparison I place my faith in love My fate i...

Why do the babies starve When there's enough food to feed the world Why when there're so many of us Are there people still alone Why are the missiles called peace keepers When they're aimed to kill Why is a woman still not safe When she's in her home Love is...

Early in the morning she rises The woman's work is never done And it's not because she doesn't try She's fighting a battle with no one on her side She rises up in the morning And she works 'til way past dusk The woman better slow down Or she's gonna come dow...

Some say you're crazy Say that you're no good Say your family's cursed with bad blood I think you're cute and misunderstood And I wouldn't change you if I could Let'em talk you down Call you names My mind's made up It ain't gonna change I'm sure in my heart H...