If These Are The Things Tracy Chapman

If These Are The Things 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

Short Supply Tracy Chapman

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 Where are All the sandy beaches

Open Arms Tracy Chapman

Open Arms 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

Mountains O' Things Tracy Chapman

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 a live of ease And mountains Oh mountains o' things To have a big

3,000 Miles Tracy Chapman

bleed Make you cry And make you think I´ll die here soon if I don´t leave If I don´t leave if I don´t leave This patch of sky and native ground Take turns to push and pull you down Forget trying

Why? Tracy Chapman

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

I Am Yours Tracy Chapman

When all my hopes and dreams Have been betrayed I stand before you My hands are empty I am yours If you are mine I am yours If you are mine When I fall and stumble Flat on my face When I'm shamed

The Promise Tracy Chapman

The Promise 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

Bridges Tracy Chapman

Bridges 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

Unsung Psalm Tracy Chapman

bows I'd have a halo and a flowing white robe I'd be enfolded by a celestial light If I'd lived right But I'm feeling hot and bothered under the collar I feel the sweat breaking out on my brow

So Tracy Chapman

fingertips People at your beck and call And you're fool enough To think for a price You can have the whole wide world For all our sake's And all our lives We must hope the words That come from

The Rape Of The World Tracy Chapman

The Rape Of The World 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

The Times They Are a-Changin' (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - October 1992) Tracy Chapman

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

In The Dark Tracy Chapman

and denial To share a space in the heart and leave us only to imagine About the things some do in the dark The things some do in the dark The things some do in the dark Make me pretend Make me

Change (Album Version) Tracy Chapman

If you knew that you would die today Saw the face of god and love Would you change? Would you change?

Change Tracy Chapman

If you knew that you would die today, Saw the face of god and love, Would you change? Would you change?

Rape Of The World Tracy Chapman

violation of all time Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness to the rape of the world You've seen her strip mined You've heard of bombs exploded underground You know the sun shines

Before Easter Tracy Chapman

I may beg Beg for money I may lie an 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

I'm Ready Tracy Chapman

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

Heaven's Here On Earth Tracy Chapman

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

For my lover Tracy Chapman

For my lover 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

Matters Of The Heart Tracy Chapman

passion in my life If there's a battle I hope my head always defers to my heart In matters of the heart I guess I'm crazy to think I can give you what you don't want I make a fool of myself In

I\'m Ready Tracy Chapman

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 I\'m ready to let the rivers wash over

Cold Feet Tracy Chapman

Cold cold cold cold feet He thought she'd like the party life and want the finer things So he promised more than he could buy And he promised her the sun and moon to not have cold feet Cold cold

At This Point In My Life Tracy Chapman

Cold cold cold cold feet He thought she'd like the party life and want the finer things So he promised more than he could buy And he promised her the sun and moon to not have cold feet Cold cold

Remember The Tinman Tracy Chapman

Remember The Tinman 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

Promise Tracy Chapman

If you wait for me Then I'll come for you Although I've travelled far I always hold a place for you In my heart If you think of me If you miss me once in a while Then I'll return to you I'll return

I Used To Be A Sailor Tracy Chapman

I Used To Be A Sailor 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

Never Yours Tracy Chapman

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

Taken Tracy Chapman

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?

The Love That You Had Tracy Chapman

The Love That You Had 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?

If not now... Tracy Chapman

If not now...

Another Sun Tracy Chapman

sun If I never see another sun If I never see another sun Another sun another sun <Interlude> If no love will comfort me If no kind words come To offer hope or peace When I have fallen

Let It Rain Tracy Chapman

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

A hundred years Tracy Chapman

A hundred years 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

Paper And Ink Tracy Chapman

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

Talkin' Bout A Revolution Tracy Chapman

Don't you know They're talkin' bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper Don't you know They're talkin' about a revolution It sounds like a whisper While they're standing in the welfare lines

Speak The Word Tracy Chapman

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

You're The One Tracy Chapman

Some say you're crazy Say that you're no good Say your family's cursed with bad blood But I think you're cute and misunderstood And I wouldn't change you if I could Let'em talk you down Call you

Bang bang bang Tracy Chapman

Bang bang bang 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't

Material world Tracy Chapman

Material world 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

Subcity Tracy Chapman

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 Tracy Chapman

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

Less Than Strangers Tracy Chapman

You and me Had some history Had a semblance of honesty All that has changed now We shared words Only lover speak How can it be We are less than strangers Oh it hurts to lose in love Let anger

Wedding Song Tracy Chapman

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

New Beginning Tracy Chapman

New Beginning 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

Across the lines Tracy Chapman

Across the lines Across the lines Who would dare to go Under the bridge Over the tracks That separates whites from blacks Choose sides Or run for your life Tonight the riots begin On the

Behind the wall Tracy Chapman

Behind the wall 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

Smoke And Ashes Tracy Chapman

Smoke And Ashes 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

Freedom now Tracy Chapman

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 The