Speak The Word lyrics - 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 speak the word that precedes bliss

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

Love love love love love love love love

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

Love love love love love love love love

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

These weakened knees

Have not touched ground or pew in ages

I haven't bowed my head

I offer thanks to any god or to ask for favors

But watch me now

I'm falling down

Praying

To speak the word that precedes bliss

To speak the word

To speak the word

Love love love love love love love love

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

Love love love love love love love love

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

Let me speak the word

It's Ok lyrics - 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 straight

While you laugh and drink and party all night long

I'll designate myself

To be the driver who takes you home

I keep the walls from falling down

I keep the walls from falling down

You can be pretty and tragic

I'll try to keep the walls from falling down

You can be beautiful and fabulous

I'll try to keep the walls from falling down

I can't reach the pain you feel

But I'll try to keep the walls from falling down

If you can hold on

Lose your fear

I'll try to keep the walls from falling down

Falling down

Falling down

Where is your saint?

To let you know you're not alone

To bring you peace

Help me be your friend your confidante

And keep the walls from falling down

Keep the walls from falling down

Keep the walls from falling down

Wedding Song lyrics - 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 light

Others pale by comparison

I place my faith in love

My fate in this communion

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

To you I give my pledge

I honor all that's good

In this life we're living

To think not only of myself

But of the greater union

Can I get a witness

There is salvation and rapture for the lonely

Can I get a witness

Bless this day sacred and holy

Sacred and Holy

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

With you I am revealed

All my shame all my faults and virtues

Behold body mind and spirit

Heart and soul devoted all to you

Can I get a witness

There is salvation and rapture for the lonely

Can I get a witness

Bless this day sacred and holy

Sacred and Holy

Unsung Psalm lyrics - Tracy Chapman

There would be psalms sung by a choir

I would have a white robe a halo newly acquired

I'd be at peace and I'd have no desire

If I'd lived right

There would be cherubs with tiny harps arrows and 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

I feel the heat and I know it's the passion

The love I can't disavow

If this is a dream wake me up now

If this is a movie let's edit these scenes out

It would be a PG instead of an X-rated life

If I'd lived right

Some would call me a cheat call me a liar

Say that I've been defeated by the basest desired

Yes I have strayed and succumbed to my vices

But I tried to live right

But I have no regrets no guilt in my heart

I only feel sadness for any pain that I've caused

I guess I wouldn't bother to worry at all

If I'd lived right

Do you live by the book do you play by the rules?

Do you care what is thought by others about you?

If this day is all that is promised to you

Do you life for the future the present the past?

If there is one thing I know I know I will die

If anyone cares some stranger my critique my life

I may be revered or defamed and decried

But I tried to live right

There would be psalms sung by a choir

I would have a white robe a halo newly acquired

I'd be at peace and I'd have no desire

If I'd lived right

Nothing Yet lyrics - 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 the same shuffle once again

Running all the time

Ain't going nowhere

It's a new page in the same book

It's a new game with the same rules

The lights go down

Fade to black on the set

And we ain't seen nothing yet

Saddled with bonds

Broken and in disrepair

Forty acres to a forty-ounce

Don't seem fair

The sirens rise and wail

Shadowed by Liberty's torch

As the boats that brought us over

Are slowly sinking off the shore

And we ain't seen nothing yet

This life a crime

A blessing and a curse

Chosen and unwanted

Displaced and usurped

I'd run away

But there is nowhere to go

So I'll stand and fight

And hope and pray

That the best is yet to come

And we ain't seen nothing yet

Paper And Ink lyrics - 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 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 they'd always told me not to

Saw the one dimension polka dot pacifier

And all illusions shattered

Money's only paper 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

Bared myself wholly heart and body unadorned

Stripped down solely

To the evil and the good

Felt no shame

Naked to the world

And all illusions shattered

Money's only paper 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

Faced towards the sea

Looked to heaven up above

Felt the world revolve around me

No one could tell me otherwise

But the turbulent waters won't reflect this life

Only the sun the moon and sky

And all illusions shattered

Money's only paper 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

Money's only paper only ink

Devotion lyrics - tracy chapman

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 beyond salvation

Judge me to be unworthy

Of your devotion

Of your devotion

If this be obsession deliver me

A passing infatuation deliver me

A feeling lacking in purity deliver me

A test of fidelity deliver me

Deliver me

Deliver me

What if I should find

You're no good for me

What if I can't be strong enough

What if I can't break free

Of my devotion

Of my devotion

The Only One lyrics - Tracy Chapman

She was the only one

Of my flesh and blood

Now I have no calling

I can do no worldly good

I sit silent

I sit mourning

I sit listless all the day

I've mostly lost the voice to speak

And any words to say except

Does heaven have enough angels yet?

I've gone hard

And I've gone cold

I can't make the piece of this cracked life fit

Please forgive me for wanting to know

Does heaven have enough angels yet?

Together oh together

No there'll be no more of that

But I would not dare for myself to ask

Does heaven have enough angels yet ?

She was the only one

Of my own flesh and blood

Sometimes I hear her calling

Straight from the house of god

First Try lyrics - Tracy Chapman

Can't run fast enough

Can't hide I can't fly

I'm struggling with the limits of this ordinary life

I'm just a

Just a

Just a first try

Can't hear what you say

Can't see by the light

I'm struggling with the limits of this ordinary life

I'm just a

Just a

Just a first try

Can't say what I mean

Can't love from the heart

Can't trust in the mercy and the goodness in the world

Can't learn to accept that it's alright

To struggle with the limits of this ordinary life

Can't be

Just a

Just a first try

Can't be

Just a

Just a first try

Just a

Just a

Just a first try

album: "New Beginning" (1995)