Baby sweet baby Won't you please Come on back home to me I've been so lonely These few days feel like A hundred years How you make me worry baby How ...
Crossroads / A Hundred Years

   Across the lines Who would dare to go Under the bridge Over the tracks That separates whites from blacks Choose sides Or run for your life Tonight th...
Tracy Chapman / Across The Lines

   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 y...
Crossroads / All That You Have Is Your Soul

   Almost got what I want Almost found what I lost Almost saved you and myself Almost won but it doesn’t count And never does Never does One green light...
__Other Songs__ / Almost

   Trouble won’t find me Sorrow won’t call Sadness will turn away Searching for a new soul Hardship won’t come by All pain will cease Somebody will take ...
Let It Rain / Another Sun

   Done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right Oh I, Oh I've Done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right At this point in my l...
__Other Songs__ / At This Poing In My Life

   Done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right Oh I Oh I've Done so many things wrong I don't know if I can do right At this point in my li...
__Other Songs__ / At This Point In My Life

   Sorry Is all that you can't say Years gone by and still Words don't come easily Like sorry like sorry Forgive me Is all that you can't say Years gone...
Tracy Chapman / Baby Can I Hold You

   What you gone do You got give the boy a gun Now there ain't no place to run to Ain't no place to run When hi hold it in his hand He feel mighty he fe...
Matters of The Heart / Bang Bang Bang

   You and your sweet smile You and all your tantalizing ways You and your honey lips You and all the sweet things that they say You and your wild wild w...
Crossroads / Be Careful Of My Heart

   Last night I heard the screaming Loud voices behind the wall Another sleepless night for me It won't do no good to call The police Always come late If...
Tracy Chapman / Behind The Wall

   They're tryin' to take away my pride By stripping me of everything I own They're tryin' to hurt me inside And make me into a white man's drone But th...
Crossroads / Born To Fight

   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 b...
Crossroads / Bridges

   You can close your eyes And see a picture perfect life Inside of your mind Dreaming only of the days ahead Wanted and wished for more than now Or the ...
Let It Rain / Broken

   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 Mak...
New Beginning / Cold Feet

   All you folks think you own my life But you never made any sacrifice Demons they are on my trail I'm standing at the crossroads of the hell I look to ...
__Other Songs__ / Croassroads

   All you folks think you own my life But you never made any sacrifice Demons they are on my trail I'm standing at the crossroads of the hell I look to ...
__Other Songs__ / Crossroads

   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 de...
Telling Stories / Devotion

   I know I may be wishing On a world That may never be But I'll keep on wishing No matter how hopeless Or foolish It may seem I'll keep on wishing I...
Matters of The Heart / Dreaming On A World

   You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Anyplace is better Starting from zero got not...
Tracy Chapman / Fast Car

   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 wh...
Telling Stories / First Try

   Two weeks in a Virginia jail For my lover for my lover Twenty thousand dollar bail For my lover for my lover And everybody thinks That I'me the fool ...
Tracy Chapman / For My Lover

   There're 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 m...
Tracy Chapman / For You

   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 ever...
Crossroads / Freedom Now

   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...
__Other Songs__ / Give Me One Good Reason

   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 Because I don't wa...
New Beginning / Give Me One Reason

   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 Though you’ve tried to b...
Let It Rain / Goodbye

   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 ...
__Other Songs__ / Happy

   Your wants desires Needs and wishes Will be duly noted Processed filed and cataloged Labeled and encoded Turned into sitcom dialog And advertising slo...
__Other Songs__ / Hard Wired

   You can look to the stars in search of the answers Look for God and life on distant planets Have your faith in the ever after While each of us holds i...
New Beginning / Heaven's Here On Earth

   There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl And God I know I'm one My mother she's a tailor S...
__Other Songs__ / House Of The Rising Sun

   When all my hopes and dreams Have been betrayed I stand before you My hands are empty I am yours If you are mine When I fall and stumble Flat on my ...
Let It Rain / I Am Yours

   I used to be a sailor Who sailed across the seas But now I'm just an island Since they took my boat away from me Oh no I don't like being stationary...
Matters of The Heart / I Used To Be A Sailor

   I want to wake up and know where I'm going Say I'm ready Say I'm ready I want to go where the rivers are overflowing and I'll be ready I'll be ready t...
New Beginning / I'm Ready

   If not now Then when If not today Then why make your promises A love declared for days to come Is as good as none You can wait 'til morning comes You...
Tracy Chapman / If Not Now...

   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 An...
__Other Songs__ / If There Are The Thigns

   If these are the things that Dreams are made of Why don't I dream Anymore I've tried to tell myeself Nothing's changed my dear But I look around me An...
__Other Songs__ / If These Are The Things

   Make me fumble Make me fall Make my heart stop and start To tremble uncontrollably Let my eyes see fear make desire Keep those who long apart Forbid t...
__Other Songs__ / In The Dark

   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 k...
Telling Stories / It's Ok

   You and me Had some history Had a semblance of honesty All that has changed now We shared words Only lover speak How can it be We are less than strang...
Telling Stories / Less Than Strangers

   Let it rain As I walk these streets unknown To no one named Not even myself When I’m low Give me hope That help is coming When I need it most Give me...
__Other Songs__ / Let It Rain

   You in your fancy Material world Don't see the links of chain Binding blood Our own ancestors Are hungry ghosts Closets so full of bones They won't c...
Crossroads / Material World

   I lose my head From time to time I make a fool of myself In matters of the heart We should have been holding each other Instead we talked I make a f...
Matters of The Heart / Matters Of The Heart

   The life I've always wanted I guess I'll never have I'll be working for somebody else Until I'm in my grave I'll be dreaming of a live of ease And mou...
__Other Songs__ / Mountains O' Things

   The whole world's broke and it ain't worth fixing It's time to start all over make a new beginning There's too much pain too much suffering Let's re...
New Beginning / New Beginning

   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 a...
Telling Stories / Nothing Yet

   (Mmm O holy night the stars are brightly shining This is the night of our dear Savior's birth Long lay the world in sin and error pining Till He ap...
__Other Songs__ / O Holy Night

   If love is what you want Baby here I am If tenderness is what you need I've got that to give If you need some affection Baby these are open arms Open ...
Matters of The Heart / Open Arms

   Cold wind blows Shivers loose Hard rain To my skin soaked through So over in love with you I don't even care Sky turns grey Black and blue Fall on m...
__Other Songs__ / Over In Love

   Cold wind blows Shivers loose Hard rain To my skin soaked through So over in love with you I dont't even care Sky turns gray Black and blue Fall on ...
__Other Songs__ / Over In Love (international Bonus Track)

   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...
Telling Stories / Paper And Ink

   There are locks on the doors And chains stretched across all the entries to the inside There's a gate and a fence And bars to protect from only God kn...
New Beginning / Remember The Tinman

   (bonus track) Save a place for me Save a space for me In your heart In your heart Save a place for me Save a space for me In your heart In your hear...
New Beginning / Save A Place For Me

   Say Hallelujah Throw up your hands The bucket is kicked The body is gone Close your eyes And bow your head To rest your soul And to praise the dead ...
__Other Songs__ / Say Hallelujah

   She's got her ticket I think she gonna use it I think she going to fly away No one should try and stop her Persuade her with their power She says that...
Tracy Chapman / She's Got Her Ticket

   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 day...
Matters of The Heart / Short Supply

   I'd heard rumors and 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 ne...
New Beginning / Smoke And Ashes

   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 An...
Matters of The Heart / So

   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 tre...
Telling Stories / Speak The Word

   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 ...
Crossroads / Subcity

   My sweet one My sad-eyed little lover My sweet one I swear there are no others But you, but you, but you, but you, but you Baby At night-time Only so...
__Other Songs__ / Sweet One

   Don't you know They're talkin' bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper Don't you know They're talkin' about a revolution It sounds like a whisper ...
Tracy Chapman / Talkin' About A Revolution

   Don't you know They're talkin' bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper Don't you know They're talkin' about a revolution It sounds like a whisper W...
Tracy Chapman / Talkin' Bout A Revolution

   Say it say it say it Tell it like it is Say it say it say it Tell it like it is What breaks your heart What keeps you awake at night What makes you wa...
New Beginning / Tell It Like It Is

   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 fi...
Telling Stories / Telling Stories

   The love that you had In your heart is gone Any touch of sincerity Any trace of compassion What hardened your heart? What turned it to stone? What m...
__Other Songs__ / The Love That You Had

   The love that you had In your heart is gone Any touch of sincerity Any trace of compassion What hardened your heart? What turned it to stone? What ma...
__Other Songs__ / The Love That You Have

   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'v...
Telling Stories / The Only One

   If you wait for me then I'll come for you Although I've traveled far I always hold a place for you in my heart If you think of me If you miss me once...
New Beginning / The Promise

   Mother of us all Place of our birth How can we stand aside And watch the rape of the wold This the beginning of the end This the most heinous of crime...
New Beginning / The Rape Of The World

   Come gather round people wherever you roam And admit that the waters around you have grown And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone If y...
__Other Songs__ / The Times They Are A Changing

   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 I'm gonna l...
Crossroads / This Time

   Don't worry about a thing 'Cause every little thing gonna be all right Singin': Don't worry about a thing 'Cause every little thing gonna be all...
__Other Songs__ / Three Little Birds

   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 Ther...
Telling Stories / Unsung Psalm

   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 ...
Telling Stories / Wedding Song

   Why do the babies starve There's enough food to feed the world Why when there're so many of us Are there people still alone Why are the missiles calle...
Tracy Chapman / Why?

   Early in the morning she rises The woman's work is never done And it's not because she doesn't try She's fighting a battle with no one on her side S...
Matters of The Heart / Woman's Work

   Some say you’re crazy Say that you’re no good Say your family’s cursed with bad blood But I think you’re cute and misunderstood And I wouldn’t change ...
Let It Rain / You're The One