Lyrics: Tracy Chapman

1- Baby can I hold you tonight 

  
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 by and still
Words don't come easily
Like forgive me forgive me
 
But you can say baby
Baby can I hold you tonight
Maybe if I told you the right words
At the right time you'd be mine
 
I love you
Is all that you can't say
Years gone by and still
Words don't come easily
Like I love you I love you
 
But you can say baby
Baby can I hold you tonight
Maybe if I told you the right words
At the right time you'd be mine
 
Baby can I hold you tonight
Maybe if I told you the right words
At the right time you'd be mine
You'd be mine
You'd be mine....
 
 
2- Change
If you knew that you could die today
You saw the face of God and love
Would you change
Would you change
 
If you knew that love can't break your heart
When your 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 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 could be alone
Knowing right, being wrong
Would you change 
Would you change
 
If you knew that you could 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 would cause an effect
 
makes you turn around
make 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 it's 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 
 
If you saw the face of God and love 
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change 
Would you change
 
 
3- Crossroads
 
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 the left I look to the right 
There're hands that grab me on every side
All you folks think I got my price 
At which I'll sell all that is mine 
You think money rules when all else fails 
Go sell your soul and keep your shell 
I'm trying to protect what I keep inside 
All the reasons why I live my life 
Some say the devil be a mystical thing 
I say the devil he a walking man
He a fool he a liar conjurer and a thief
He try to tell you what you want 
Try to tell you what you need 
Standing at the point 
The road it cross you down 
What is at your back 
Which way do you turn 
Who will come to find you first 
Your devils or your gods 
All you folks think you run my life 
Say I should be willing to comprimise
I say all you demons go back to hell 
I'll save my soul save myself
 
 
 
4- Fast Car
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 nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me 
Myself 
I got nothing to prove
 
You got a fast car
I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs and finally see what it means to be living
 
You see my old man's got a problem
He lives with the bottle 
That's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did
 
You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
 
So remember when were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had feeling I could be someone
Be someone
Be someone
 
You got a fast car
We go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job and I work in a market as a check-out girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs
 
So remember when were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had feeling I could be someone
Be someone
Be someone
 
You got a fast car
I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me find it
I got no plans 
I ain't going nowhere so take your fast car and keep on driving
 
So remember when were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had feeling I could be someone
Be someone
Be someone
 
You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way

5- Freedom Now

They throwed him in jail 
And they kept him there 
Hoping soo he'd die 
That his body and spirit would waste away 
And soon after that his mind 
But every day is born a fool 
One who thinks that he can rule 
One who says tomorrow's mine 
One who wakes one day to find 
The prison doors open the shackles broken
And chaos in the street 
Everybody sing we're free free free free 
Everybody sing we're free free free free 
Everybody sing we're free free free free 
They throwed him in jail 
And they kept him there 
Hoping his memory'd die 
That the people forget how he once led 
And fought for justice in their lives 
 
But every day is born a man 
Who hates what he can't understand
Who thinks the answer is to kill 
Who thinks his actions are god's will 
 
And he thinks he's free free free free 
Yes he thinks he's free free free free 
He thinks he's free free free free 
Soon must come the day 
When the righteous have their way 
Unjustly tried are free 
And people live in peace I say
Give the man release 
Go on and set your conscience free 
Right the wrongs you made
Even a fool can have his day 
Let us all be free free free free 
Let us all be free free free free 
Let us all be free free free free 
Free our bodies free our minds 
Free our hearts 
Freedom for everyone 
And freedom now 
Freedom now 
Freedom now 
Freedom now 
 
Let us all be free free free free
Let us all be free free free free 
Let us all be free free free free

6- Give me one 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
Said I don’t wanna leave you lonely
You got to make me change my mind
 
Baby I got your number and I know that you got mine
You know that I've called you, I've called too many times
You can call me baby
You can call me anytime, but you got to call me
 
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 leave you lonely
You got to make me change my mind
 
I don’t want no one to squeeze me
They might take away my life
I don’t want no one to squeeze me
They might take away my life
I just want someone to hold me
And rock me through the night
 
This youthful heart can love you, yes, and give what you need
This youthful heart can love you, boy, and give what you need
But I’m too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy
 
Give me one reason to stay here, yes, and I’ll turn right back around
Give me one reason to stay here, whow, and I’ll turn right back around
Said I don’t wanna leave you lonely
You got to make me change my mind
 
Baby just gives me one reason
Give me just one reason why
Baby just gives me one reason
Give me just one reason why I should stay
Because I told you that I loved you and there ain't no more to say
 

7- Talking About a Revolution

Don't you know
Their talkin' about a revolution
It sound like a whisper
Don't you know
They're talkin' about a revolution
It's sounds like a whisper
 
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
 
Don't you know
Their talkin' about a revolution
It sound like a whisper
 
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs
 
Don't you know
You better run, run, run...(+9)
Oh I said you better
Run, run, run...(+9)
 
And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin'about revolution
 
Yes finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin'about revolution oh no
 
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
 
Don't you know
Their talkin' about a revolution
It sound like a whisper
 
And finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin'about revolution
 
Yes finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin'about revolution oh no
Talkin'about revolution oh no
Talkin'about revolution oh no

8- The Promise
 
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 in a while
Then I'll return to you
I'll return and fill that space in your heart
 
Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
I'll find my way back to you
If you'll be waiting
If you dream of me like I dream of you
In a place that's warm and dark
In a place where I can feel the beating of your heart
 
Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
I'll find my way back to you
If you'll be waiting
I've longed for you and I have desired
To see your face your smile
To be with you wherever you are
 
Remembering
Your touch
Your kiss
Your warm embrace
I'll find my way back to you
Please say you'll be waiting
 
Together again
It would feel so good to be
In your arms
Where all my journeys end
If you can make a promise If it's one that you can keep, I vow to come for you
If you wait for me and say you'll hold
A place for me in your heart.
 
a place for me in your heart (x4)