"Our Bright Future" (2008)

Sing For You lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Save Us All lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Our Bright Future lyrics - Tracy chapman
For A Dream lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Thinking Of You lyrics - Tracy Chapman
A Theory lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Conditional lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Something To See lyrics - Tracy Chapman
The First Person On Earth lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Spring lyrics - Tracy Chapman

Sing For You lyrics - Tracy Chapman

Sweet and high

At the break of dawn

A simple tune that you can hum along to

I remember

There was a time

When I used to sing for you

Knew all the words to the popular songs

With the radio on full volume

I remember

There was a time

When I used to sing for you

Forget the chorus

You're the bridge

The words and music

To every day I've lived

There's nothing that I wouldn't give

For one more time

When I can sing for you

Soft and low

When the evening comes

Holding you sleeping in my arms

I remember

There was a time

When I used to sing for you

Save Us All lyrics - Tracy Chapman

I know Jesus loves me

In my heart I know it's true

I know Mary's little baby

Came in the world

Just to save me

But I don't know about you

My God's a mighty big God

My God can shake the world up

Plagues and famines

Frogs and locusts

Walking on water

Burning bushes

Rolling the thunder

And parting the waters too

My God is good in the kitchen

Make a god meal from bread and fishes

Feed the hungry pour the wine

Everybody's welcome to have a good time

Sit at his table enjoy the food

I know that Jesus loves me

He says I should love you

My neighbor not his wife

Don't covet steal kill or lie

My God's got a lot of rules

My God made creation

Six days work one day vacation

Made a garden

Filled it with apples

Adam and Eve walked around natural

Until they ate that one piece of bad fruit

I've heard that your God's older

Buddha Allah Krishna

Manifest with many faces

Worshipped the world over in foreign places

I assume your God must love you

I know Jesus loves me

And my God is good and great and true

But it pride goeth before the fall

I hope someone's God will save us all

Save us all

And love the sinners too

Our Bright Future lyrics - Tracy chapman

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

Believe what you want

The record shows what we are not

Our true desires

Not our good thoughts

Led on let on

To take the path

Where our bright future

Is in our past

To my father what have you done?

To the children

Born innocent

But come to harm

For dreams of glory

And just a line in history

Led on led on

To take the path

Where our bright future

Is in our past

To our father what good may come?

To let the children

Walk alone

To fear to fail

And need no savior

To be at peace in our true nature

Lead on lead on

Clear the path

So our bright future

May come to pass

May come to pass

May come to pass

For A Dream lyrics - Tracy Chapman

I picture us together

Framed in gold neat

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 no dressed in black

There's laughing and smiling

Not stabbing in the back

But it's too good to be true

And too bad I still recall the screams

But it's alright, it's alright

For a dream

I keep half the picture

Mostly in my mind

Mama dressed in white

Ripped where she held your hand

Showing no signs of age

Just slightly frayed along the seam

But it's alright, it's alright

For a dream

It's alright

And that I can claim

It's alright

And it will have to do

It's alright

Better than the pain

It's alright

Better than the truth

It's alright

Alright for a dream

It's alright

Better that fate and the grand scheme

It's alright

It's alright

For Christmas and for New Year

I wish and I resolve

But I'm disappointed by myself

Jusus and Santa Claus

I want to believe

She's been saved

And he's been redeemed

But it's alright, it's alright

For a dream

Thinking Of You lyrics - Tracy Chapman

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 

[Chorus:]

And now all I do is sit 

In my darkened room 

And on accasion break my silence 

To howl at the moon 

To curse every nerve 

And neuron in my brain 

That won't stop the pain I'm feeling 

And let me stop thinking 

I used to think 

Galileo would agree 

That the world was round 

And you'd come round to me 

But I have looked for you 

And you're nowhere in sight 

The world must be flat 

The Babylonians were right 

[Chorus] 

I used to think 

Consider gravity 

If I placed you on a pedestal 

You'd slip and fall for me 

But you floated on the air 

Far away at light speed 

I guess some objects do defy 

The laws that we conceive 

[Chorus] 

I used to think 

It took all my time 

Analysing you 

Your mind on my mind 

Your name my mantra 

Repeated on my lips 

That once tried to kiss you 

A memory unrepressed 

[Chorus] 

Stop thinking of you 

Stop thinking of you 

Stop thinking of you

A Theory lyrics - Tracy Chapman

It's just a theory 

There's a possibility I am wrong 

It's just a theory 

But I would stake my life 

Lay my money down 

That you were meant for me 

And for you I'm the one 

It's just a theory 

A particular set of assumptions 

It's just a theory 

An educated guess 

A conclusion not forgone 

That you were meant for me 

And for you I'm the one 

Oh nothing's new under the sun 

I will postulate 

Ask for your consideration 

Ask you out on a date 

Although it can't be sure 

Why not act on a hunch 

Oh why not search for proof 

Why not go out for lunch 

And in theory, I could propose 

And in theory you could affirm 

Oh that you were meant for me 

And for you I'm the one 

Oh that you were meant for me 

And for you I'm the one 

It's just a theory 

A series of tests should be run. 

It's just a theory although not fully assessed 

An idea whose time has come 

That you were meant for me 

And for you I'm the one 

That you were meant for me 

And for you I'm the one

Conditional lyrics - Tracy Chapman

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 free 

There are strings attached 

Tied to me 

I'll want something back 

If you agree 

To be in love with me 

Try to try to try to forget 

To change the things about me 

You can not accept 

Any day that you have regret 

Just let it recede 

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 

There are vows that must be made 

There are terms that can't expire 

There are words that must be said 

And there are qualifiers 

I'll love you but I'll count the ways 

The things that I admire 

And anyone who says they won't 

You can call a liar 

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 

Stay with me stay with me 

Right or wrong 

Pledge your loyalty 

Have faith have faith 

That we do belong 

Together for eternity 

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

Something To See lyrics - Tracy Chapman

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 we're all free

Now we're all free

No war no greed

That would be something to see

I hope I live that long

No want no need

The struggle to end poverty

Finally has been won

Now we're all free

Now we're all free

No war no greed

That would be something to see

I hope I live that long

Hold my consitution

And have the courage of heard and mind

To right what is wrong

Now we're all free

Now we're all free

But now you can't believe

What you're told

You can't believe what you hear

The speeches of the politicians

Ring untrue and insincere

You can't believe what you read

You can't believe what's said

They count the targets and the bombs

But do not count the dead

They do not count the dead

No war no greed

That would be something to see

I hope I live that long

Not lose my faith

In every word on the page

In the face of freedom

No war no greed

No war no greed

No war no greed

The First Person On Earth lyrics - Tracy Chapman

From the water

From the rock and the dirt

You were

The first person on earth

Oh the mountains

And the oceans

Witnessed 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 light of the sun

You emerged

To see the good in the world

Before the pain and the scourge

The first person on earth

In the quiet in the calm

Before the storm

You heard the dream for a love

That never dies in a poem

The first person on earth

And I'm in love with you

I'm in love with a dream

That can not be realized

Held or seen

By the last person on earth

After the earthquakes the hurricanes

The fires and floods

I'm jaded cynical angry and glum

The world's too absurd and obscene

For true love

And more than happy to let me become

The last person on earth

To let me stand on a rock

The muddy waters surround

Abandoned alone

The end soon to come

As the last person on earth

As the waters rise

At the end of the world

Though I bear the weight

Of the rock and the dirt

I know I'm worthy of your love

As the last person on earth

As the waters rise

At the end of the world

Though I bear the weight

Of the rock and the dirt

I know I'm worthy of your love

As the last person on earth