Tracy Chapman Album

If you knew that you would die today
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 that 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 would cause an 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 would bring 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 would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change
Makes you change

Are you so up right
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 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 loved
Would you change?
Would you change?

If you saw the face of God and loved
If you saw the face of God and loved
Would you change?

Got to 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

Got to talk to you, baby,
Talk to you now
Say it isn't too late
See me again, we'll work it out
I got a feeling
Feelings don't lie
Don' let the words escape me now
Escape me now
Escape me now

Got to talk to you, baby,
Talk to you now
Say it isn't too soon
See me again, sort it out
I got a feeling
Feelings don't lie
Don't let the words, oh, escape me now
Oh escape me now
Oh escape me now
Oh I got a feeling
Feelings don't lie
Don't let the words, don't let the words, don't let the words, oh, escape me now

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 hand from the trees

Training ground for punks and thieves
Home of poor white retirees
Who didn’t bail
And couldn’t seel
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

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 glace
In a slip and past times
Are in the future brought back
Reflected reflected reflected
Every footstep

No walk in the park
No there i 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 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 weathere'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

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

You were lost and got lucky,
came upon the shore,
found you were conquering America,
Spoke of peace,
Waged a war,
while you were conquering America.

There was land to take, and people to kill
While you were conquering America.
You saved yourself, and did God's will,
While you were conquering America.

The ghost of Columbus haunts this world,
You're still conquering America.
The meek won't survive, inherit the earth,
Cause you're still conquering America

hmmmm

Found bodies to serve, submit and degrade,
while you were conquering America.
Made of soldiers and junkies, prisoners and slaves,
while you were conquering America.

America, America, America

Your hands are at my throat,
my back's against the wall,
cause you're still conquering America.
We are Sick, and tired, hungry and poor,
cause you're still conquering America.

America, America, America,

You bomb the very ground,
you feed your own babies,
you're still conquering America
Your sons and your daughters,
May never sing your praises,
while you were conquering America.

America, America, America

Unseal your eyes,
see the distant shore,
while you were conquering America,
Take your rockets to the moon,
Try to find a new world,
And you're still conquering America.

America, America, America

The ghost of Columbus, haunts this world,
You're still conquering America,
You're still conquering America,

I want you, try to forget her
In your heart you know that she'll never
love you, love you, love you

I want you, try to forget her
She won't call or write you a letter
of love, love, love's proof

I want you, try to forget her
Give her time, you'll wait forever
for love, oh love, love's proof

It's not in the stars,
It's all in the proofs
Chances and the odds one you love will love
Fall for you, fall for you

I want you, try to forget her
Thinks she's good, I'll be better

I may beg beg for money
I may lie and lay my body down
Sell what I would give with love
One day before Easter comes
But I won't let Jesus find, find me

I walk, I eat, I sleep
In these streets I may be found
Alive or dead or just reborn
One day before Easter comes
But I won't let Jesus find, find me

Jesus knows what I've done
I won't let him lift me up
Before I can turn to look for him
Before I can turn to look for him
Jesus comes around again

I cry I cry I cry for help
I let you be the one
I try to redeem the sins of man
One day before Easter comes
But I won't let Jesus find, find me

Gonna hide, hide from Him
Hide myself but not the sin

Gonna hide, hide from Him
Hide myself but not the sin
Jesus comes around again

Got the rock the needle the bottle of sorrows
Jesus Jesus Jesus knows

Should I try to take you in
Another fool brought to the fold
With not a gaze or arms but deathlike grip
To hold
To hold
To hold
To hold

Should I try to take you in
And hope for the perfect 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 the place
With pleasure and pain in equal share
A refuge for truth and deceit
Where all who come are taken in

Should I try to take you in
Pretending what you have not felt
In passion sorrow sleep or death
Eyes closed
Eyes closed
Eyes closed
Eyes closed

Here there's only faith no doubt
You can be taken anywhere
Here is where you choose the place
With pleasure and pain in equal share
A refuge for truth and deceit
Where all who come are taken in

Should I try to take you in
Who'll pity me if I forget
It said to be and not to be in love
Is to regret
Regret
Regret
Regret

Here there's only faith no doubt
You can be taken anywhere
Here is where you choose the place
With pleasure and pain in equal share
A refuge for truth and deceit
Where all who come are taken in

Should I try to take you in
Who'll pity me in my regret
For those who've never been in love
Need not Forget
Forget
Forget
Forget

I believe in mistakes and accidents
That the nature of life is chaos and confusion
That man's rules of law and order may not stand
I should be and be not afraid to reach for heaven

I may think that I know the true hearts needs
My pride may bring me low, unable to see
No closer than yesterday, but tomorrow I may stand
Be and be not afraid to reach for heaven

I'll see the black eyed cavalcade, lights on in the morn
I'll run fast and far away, I'll run without stopping
Till heart and feet fail or until I can stand
Be and be not afraid
Be and be not afraid