Tell It Like It Is Tracy Chapman

Tell It Like It Is 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

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?

Bridges Tracy Chapman

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

Mountains O' Things Tracy Chapman

me There's still time to save my soul They tell me Renounce all Renounce all those material things you gained by Exploiting other human beings Consume more than you need This is the dream Make

Going Back Tracy Chapman

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

Crossroads Tracy Chapman

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 which I'll sell all that is

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

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

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

Fast car Tracy Chapman

Fast car You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Anyplace is better Starting from zero got nothing to lose Maybe we'll make

She's Got Her Ticket Tracy Chapman

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 She's got her ticket I

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

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

Be careful of my heart Tracy Chapman

ways One day you just up and walked away You left me hurting But I can forgive you for that now You taught me something Something took half my life to learn When you give all yourself away Just tell

Broken Tracy Chapman

And something for nothing Everybody thinks you're joking The picture makes a promise The flesh lets it be broken The picture makes a promise The flesh lets it be broken You want to be the one

Telling Stories Tracy Chapman

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

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

Remember The Tinman Tracy Chapman

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 your heart who took it

You're The One Tracy Chapman

change I'm sure in my heart Happy and free You're the one you're the one You're the one for me Some say you're bawdy Wicked and wild A restless useless juvenile But I think you're funny and I like

If not now... Tracy Chapman

If not now then when If now 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

All that you have is your soul Tracy Chapman

All that you have is your soul 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

Baby can I hold you Tracy Chapman

Baby can I hold you 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

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

Smoke And Ashes Tracy Chapman

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 If the talk is

Heaven's Here On Earth Tracy Chapman

on earth We are the spirit The collective conscience We create the pain and the suffering and the beauty in this world Heaven's here on earth In our faith in humankind In our respect for what is

Cold Feet Tracy Chapman

When a woman passing by brushed his arm He turned and found love He then wished for the courage to ask this stranger Who she was to not have cold feet Cold cold cold cold feet He thought she'd like

At This Point In My Life Tracy Chapman

When a woman passing by brushed his arm He turned and found love He then wished for the courage to ask this stranger Who she was to not have cold feet Cold cold cold cold feet He thought she'd like

Nothing Yet Tracy Chapman

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

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

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

Unsung Psalm Tracy Chapman

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 I feel the heat and I know it's the passion The love I can't disavow If this is

For my lover Tracy Chapman

Everyday I'm psychoanalyzed For my lover for my lover They dope me up and I tell them lies For my lover for my lover I follow my heart And leave my head to ponder Deep in this love No man can

Talk To You Tracy Chapman

Gotta 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 Gotta

Rape Of The World Tracy Chapman

Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside and watch this rape of the world This is the beginning of the end This is the most heinous of crimes This is the deadliest of sins The greatest

Taken Tracy Chapman

And hope for the prefect docile pet Hope that you´ll not defile or wreck my home Sweet home Sweet home Sweet home Here there´s only faith no doubt You can be taken anywhere Here is where you choose

It's Ok Tracy Chapman

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

Almost Tracy Chapman

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

Promise Tracy Chapman

you I'll return and fill that space in your heart Chorus- Remembering your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way Back to you If you'll be waiting 2nd verse- If you dream of me Like

So Tracy Chapman

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

Dreaming n A World Tracy Chapman

Dreaming n A World 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

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

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 Sat down up close to the colored black hole Like

Matters Of The Heart Tracy Chapman

make a fool of myself In matters of the heart But I asked before Your reply was kind and polite One wants more When one's denied I make a fool of myself In matters of the heart I won't call it

The Promise Tracy Chapman

Then I'll return to you I'll return and fill that space in your heart Remembering Your touch Your kiss Your warm embrace I'll find my way back to you If you'll be waiting If you dream of me like

Change (Album Version) Tracy Chapman

How bad, how good, does it need to get? How many losses? how much regret? What chain reaction would cause an effect?

Change Tracy Chapman

How bad, how good does it need to get? How many losses? How much regret? What chain reaction would cause an effect?

The Rape Of The World Tracy Chapman

shines Hotter than ever before Mother of us all Place of our birth We all are witness To the rape of the world Some claim to have crowned her A queen With cities of concrete and steel But there is

Across the lines Tracy Chapman

the riots begin On the back streets of America They kill the dream of America Little black girl gets assaulted Ain't no reason why Newspaper prints the story And racist tempers fly Next day it

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