"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

Spring lyrics - Tracy Chapman

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 great every new day that may come

Like the first of spring

It is cold

It is cold

I've had the feeling

At the heart and in the core

The root of all things

But there's a bud there's a bulb

It will be blooming

To greet every new day that may come

Like the first of spring

It is late

It is late

As I watch waiting

It will go come turn away

The cycle cycling

There's a face with new eyes

A baby crying

Who'll greet every new day that may come

Like the first of spring

Like the first of spring

"Where You Live" (2005)

Change lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Talk To You lyrics - Tracy Chapman
3,000 Miles lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Going Back lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Don't Dwell lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Never Yours lyrics - Tracy Chapman
America lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Love's Proof lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Before Easter lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Taken lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Be And Be Not Afraid lyrics - Tracy Chapman
Loose Your Love lyrics - Tracy Chapman

Change lyrics - Tracy Chapman

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 to get?

How many losses how much regret?

What chain reaction

What cause and effect

Makes you turn around

Makes you try to explain

Makes you forgive and forget

Makes you change

Makes you change

If you knew that you would be alone

Knowing right being wrong

Would you change?

Would you change?

If you knew that you would find a truth

That brings a pain that can't be soothed

Would you change?

Would you change?

How bad how good does it need to get?

How many losses how much regret?

What chain reaction

What cause and effect

Makes you turn around

Makes you try to explain

Makes you forgive and forget

Makes you change

Makes you change

Are you so upright you can't be bent

if it comes to blows

Are you so sure you won't be crawling

If not for the good why risk falling

Why risk falling

If everything you think you know

Makes your life unbearable

Would you change?

Would you change?

If you'd broken every rule and vow

And hard times come to bring you down

Would you change?

Would you change?

If you knew that you would die today

If you saw the face of God and Love

Would you change?

Would you change?

Talk To You lyrics - Tracy Chapman

Gotta talk to you baby

Talk to you now

Maybe it's too late

You're slamming the door

You're 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 talk to you baby

Talk to you now

Say it isn't too late

You'll see me again

We'll work it out

I got a feeling

Feelings don't lie

Don't let the words escape me now

Escape me now

Escape me now

Gotta talk to you baby

Talk to you now

Say it isn't too soon

You'll see me again

We'll sort it out

I got a feeling

Feelings don't lie

Don't let the words escape me now

Escape me now

Escape me now

3,000 Miles lyrics - 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 against

The cold concrete

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

Knock you down

Make you 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 to live and be happy

I'll take safe and terror free

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

Hit the floor

Shut off the lights

As the bullets fly

Terror rules the dark night

Dogs hang from the trees

Training ground for punks and thieves

Home of poor white retirees

Who didn't bail

And couldn't sell

When color made the grass less green

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

Apples are filled with razor blades

But fools and innocents believe

That love and faith and truth and beauty

Can make a garden of this human factory

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

Bad girls run fast

Leave home alone

No trace or clue of where they've gone

Sometimes these girls are never found

Never found never found

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

I'm 3,000 miles away

Going Back lyrics - 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 past

With me with me always

Without going back

Just people and buildings

Not city or town

Great lake crooked river

Flat land water burns

The air not smoke

It tears the eye

Home is where you live

Home is where you'll die

I can't see through it

But i can see past

With me with me always

Without going back

In a glacial slide

Over ice mirrored glass

In a slip and past times

Are in the future brought back

Reflected reflected reflected

Every footstep

No walk in the park

No there is nowhere

No place can replace

What a clear eye reveals

Soft and hard shaped like a wheel

Made me of rubber made me of steel

I can't see through it

But i can see past

With me with me always

Without going back

Don't Dwell lyrics - Tracy Chapman

Don't dwell on the past

Love that was lost and didn't last

That summer bloom is fading fast

But I'm falling for you

Don't dwell on the pain

Tears you've cried

And autumn rain

That fair weather's here and gone again

But I'm waiting for you

Don't dwell on the loss

The fool that would steal break and toss

That winter's heart will spurn and double-cross

But I'm yearning for you

Don't dwell on the time

The seasons change

And so does the clime

That old flame has cooled

But I'm burning for you

Never Yours lyrics - 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

Her finest clothes

Daddy showed me outside

To meet you on the front porch

I laugh at all your jokes

But you look bored

I've been a lot of things but never yours

You never cross my mind

You can be sure

You'll never catch my eye

Waiting for you watching the door

I let you hold me

Dry lip kiss me on the dance hall floor

I've been a lot of things

But never yours

Never yours

Never yours

Never yours

Never yours

Never yours

Never yours

Never yours

Never yours

So you say you won

It was a bet

A game of pool or cards

I repay my family's debt

I let you lie beside me

With no remorse

I've been a lot of things

But never yours

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

America lyrics - Tracy Chapman

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 will

While you were conquering America

The ghost of Columbus haunts this world

'Cause you're still conquering America

The meek won't survive

Or inherit the earth

'Cause you're still conquering America

America

America

America

You found bodies to serve

Submit and degrade

While you were conquering America

Made us soldiers and junkies

Prisoners and slaves

While you were conquering America

America

America

America

You hands are at my throat

My back's against the wall

Because you're still conquering America

We're sick and tired hungry and poor

'Cause you're still conquering America

You bomb the very ground

That feeds your own babies

You're still conquering America

Your sons and your daughters

May never sing your praises

While you're conquering America

America

America

America

I see you eyes seek a distant shore

While you're conquering America

Taking rockets to the moon

Trying to find a new world

And you're still conquering America

America

America

America

The ghost of Columbus haunts this world

'Cause you're still conquering America

You're still conquering America

You're still conquering America