Why?
Tracy Chapman Lyrics
Why do the babies starve
When there's enough food to feed the world
Why when there are so many of us
Are there people still alone
Why are the missiles called peace keepers
When they're aimed to kill
Why is a woman still not safe
When she's in her home
War is peace
No is yes
And we're all free
But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
Amidst all these questions and contradictions
There are some who seek the truth
But somebody's gonna have to answer
The time is coming soon
When the blind remove their blinders
And the speechless speak the truth
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Written by: TRACY L CHAPMAN
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Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for the singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' Bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", and "Give Me One Reason." She is a multi-platinum and multi-Grammy award-winning artist.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio,U.S., Tracy Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs as a child. She received a scholarship through A Better Chance that allowed her to attend Wooster School in Connecticut, and was eventually accepted to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Read Full BioTracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for the singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' Bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", and "Give Me One Reason." She is a multi-platinum and multi-Grammy award-winning artist.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio,U.S., Tracy Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs as a child. She received a scholarship through A Better Chance that allowed her to attend Wooster School in Connecticut, and was eventually accepted to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
Tracy Chapman helped restore singer/songwriters to the spotlight in the '80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman's eponymous 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same confessional singer/songwriter foundation that had been popularized in the '70s, her songs were fresh and powerful, driven by simple melodies and affecting lyrics. At the time of her first album, there were only a handful of artists performing such a style successfully, and her success ushered in a new era of singer/songwriters that lasted well into the '90s. Along with 10,000 Maniacs and R.E.M., Chapman's liberal politics proved enormously influential on American college campuses in the late '80s
Official Website: http://www.tracychapman.com
Fansite: http://www.tracychapmanonline.com
Born in Cleveland, Ohio,U.S., Tracy Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs as a child. She received a scholarship through A Better Chance that allowed her to attend Wooster School in Connecticut, and was eventually accepted to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. Read Full BioTracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for the singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' Bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", and "Give Me One Reason." She is a multi-platinum and multi-Grammy award-winning artist.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio,U.S., Tracy Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs as a child. She received a scholarship through A Better Chance that allowed her to attend Wooster School in Connecticut, and was eventually accepted to Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
Tracy Chapman helped restore singer/songwriters to the spotlight in the '80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman's eponymous 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same confessional singer/songwriter foundation that had been popularized in the '70s, her songs were fresh and powerful, driven by simple melodies and affecting lyrics. At the time of her first album, there were only a handful of artists performing such a style successfully, and her success ushered in a new era of singer/songwriters that lasted well into the '90s. Along with 10,000 Maniacs and R.E.M., Chapman's liberal politics proved enormously influential on American college campuses in the late '80s
Official Website: http://www.tracychapman.com
Fansite: http://www.tracychapmanonline.com
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RastaBoy Rastafari
Why?
Because we would rather keep on to cherish our possessiveness.
It would be better to love our enemy similar as our family.
It is not the human we hate, it is the behaviour we hate.
It is all because of our conditional life.
To become Unconditional, we need to view the whole picture, suddenly.
What does Love have to do with hate?
To become Unconditional, we have to die from the past and future every day and night.
The benevolent ones will ARISE and SHINE on tyranny.
Sandra Ring
“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women
they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time,
unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them.
If the first woman they passionately loved, the mother, was not true to her bond of love,
then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love.
Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partner's love.
While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mother's love
because he is not worthy, as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy
and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love.
This testing does not heal the wound of the past, it merely reenacts it,
for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship,
thus reenacting the abandonment.
This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love.
They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful, in being dominant.”
Bell Hooks
Sandra Ring
“Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others.
We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females.
In actuality, dominator culture teaches us that we are all natural-born killers
but that males are more able to realize the predator role.
In the dominator model the pursuit of external power,
the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most.
When culture is based on a dominator model,
not only will it be violent
but it will frame all relationships as power struggles.”
Bell Hooks
Eimear Downey
I love how clear her one messages is portrayed in so many different scenarios... Be good and honest to everyone
J P
I remember the 1988 release ... This was a gripping album in the UK This song is STILL TRUE TO THIS MINUTE! ... #votebiden2020 to all Americans - The UK is thinking of you x
Kiki23 H
Beautifully said. My mom has passed away now but we’d listen to this album and we both had chills. For my mom that was a big deal. ...
Adriana Avila
“Love is hate. War is peace. No is yes. We’re all free.” So many contradictions. The time is here Tracy. Love you so much! 💕 ♥️. Thank you so much for your beautiful work.
ThOAAngel
It sure it
Matthew Schrier
Great song, could have been longer.
WildLife in the Netherlands
she is one of the best female singer in the world , i love her music
Sincere Song
The words are on point and Painfully still so relevant today
dcbsmt
So sad how relevant this still is ... starvation, women not safe in their homes, war ...
Samantha Spence
Yes I above the law?