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Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
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“Fast Car” is a song by American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman. It was released in April 1988 as the lead single from her self-titled debut album. Her appearance on the Nelson
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Tracy Chapman – TaIkin' Bout a Revolution
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“Talkin' Bout a Revolution” is the second single from Tracy Chapman’s 1988 self-titled debut album.
Though it didn’t find the same success in the United States as Chapman’s
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Tracy Chapman – Why? (Official)
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[Chorus] / Why do the babies starve / When there's enough food to feed the world? / Why when there are so many of us / Are there people still alone? / Why are the missiles called
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Tracy Chapman – For My Lover
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“For My Lover” portrays the raw desire of a person to be with another regardless of what many may consider as rational boundaries. The heart-versus-mind conundrum is brought to the
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Tracy Chapman – Mountains o' Things (Official)
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This song covers the idea of greed and consumerism in our modern society, the idea that life is about more than just material goods. This has always been a popular topic within
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Tracy Chapman – Crossroads
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“Crossroads” is the second studio album by Tracy Chapman, released in October 1989.
Following the success of her eponymous debut album, Chapman would continue working with
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Tracy Chapman – Devotion
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Behind the Wall (Official)
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A haunting a cappella song about domestic violence. Domestic violence is a common problem with 1.3% of all women in the US saying they have experienced domestic violence in a year
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Tracy Chapman – Across the Lines (Official)
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Continuing with the theme of socially-conscious songs, Tracy takes on racial separation in the US and focuses on co-operation and pleas for peace.
Tracy, born in 1964 and
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Tracy Chapman – For You
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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
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Tracy Chapman – It's OK
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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
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Tracy Chapman – The Promise
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This song is about Tracy returning to whoever she loves only if he waits for her and if he loves her as much as she loves him.
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Tracy Chapman – Telling Stories
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Bang Bang Bang
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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
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Tracy Chapman (Ft. Marc Cohn) – Bridges
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Baby Can I Hold You
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The third single released from Tracy Chapman this song has been covered on multiple occasions. Most successfully by Neil Diamond for his album The Best Years of Our Lives and also
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Tracy Chapman – First Try
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[Verse 1] / Can't run fast enough / Can't hide I can't fly / I'm struggling with the limits of this ordinary life / [Chorus] / I'm just a, just a, just a first try / I'm just a
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Tracy Chapman – Spring
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Tracy Chapman – Happy
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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
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Tracy Chapman – America
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AMERICA / 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
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Tracy Chapman – Subcity
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Goodbye
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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 / You've tried to be kind / It's all in the
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Tracy Chapman – All That You Have is Your Soul
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My mama told me / Cause she say she learned the hard way / Say she want to spare the children / She say don't give or sell your soul away / Cause all that you have is your soul
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Tracy Chapman – Smoke and Ashes
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[Verse 1] / I'd heard rumors, 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
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Tracy Chapman – Change
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“Change” is the intro track to Tracy Chapman’s 7th studio album, Where You Live, and is highly regarded as one of her deepest and most religious songs.
Chapman, a very conscious
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Tracy Chapman – Short Supply
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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
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Tracy Chapman – She's Got Her Ticket
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[Chorus] / She's got her ticket, I think she gonna use it / I think she goin' to fly away / No one should try and stop her, persuade her with their power / She says that her mind
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Tracy Chapman – So
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Nothing Yet
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Hard Wired
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Paper And Ink
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Hound dog
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[Intro] / Oh I feel alright this morning / I want everybody to know / That I was the one to say / [Verse] / You ain't nothin' but a hound dog / Snooping´round my door / Ain't
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Tracy Chapman – Freedom Now
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They throwed him in jail / And they kept him there / Hoping soon he'd die / That his body and spirit would waste away / And soon after that his mind / But every day is born a fool
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Tracy Chapman – This Time
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[Verse] / 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 / [Pre-Chorus] / I
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Tracy Chapman – Give Me One Reason
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[Chorus] / 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 / Said I don't wanna leave you
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Tracy Chapman – Sing For You
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[Intro] / One, two / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Sweet and high at the break of dawn / Simple tune that you can hum along to / I remember there was a time / When I used to
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Tracy Chapman – Going Back
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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
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Tracy Chapman & Luciano Pavarotti – Baby, Can I Hold You Tonight
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[Verse 1 Chapman] / Sorry / Is all that you can't say / Years gone by and still / Words don't come easily / Like sorry, like sorry / [Verse 2 Pavarotti] / Perdonami / È uma parola
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Tracy Chapman – If These are the Things
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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
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Tracy Chapman – Cold Feet
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Tracy Chapman – Broken
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I’ve always thought the line was, “The picture makes a promise, the flash lets it be broken”, as in the flash of a camera. This makes more sense to me in the context of the song.
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Tracy Chapman – Never Yours
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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
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