Here are the lyrics to the songs on the Where You Live album, as printed in the CD or cassette booklet:
01. Change
02. Talk To You
03. 3,000 Miles
04. Going Back
05. Don’t Dwell
06. Never Yours
07. America
08. Love’s Proof
09. Before Easter
10. Taken
11. Be And Be Not Afraid
12. Lose Your Love
“CHANGE” LYRICS
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 knew that love can break your heart
When you’re 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
What cause and 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 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
What cause and effect
Makes you turn around
Makes you try to explain
Makes you forgive and forget
Makes you change
Makes you change
Are you so upright 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 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?
© 2003 Tracy Chapman
“TALK TO YOU” LYRICS
Gotta talk to you baby
Talk to you now
Maybe it’s too late
You’re slamming the door
You’re walking out
I got a feeling
Feelings don’t lie
Don’t let the words escape me now
Escape me now
Escape me now
Gotta talk to you baby
Talk to you now
Say it isn’t too late
You’ll see me again
We’ll work it out
I got a feeling
Feelings don’t lie
Don’t let the words escape me now
Escape me now
Escape me now
Gotta talk to you baby
Talk to you now
Say it isn’t too soon
You’ll see me again
We’ll sort it out
I got a feeling
Feelings don’t lie
Don’t let the words escape me now
Escape me now
Escape me now
© 2004 Tracy Chapman
“3,000 MILES” LYRICS
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 hang from the trees
Training ground for punks and thieves
Home of poor white retirees
Who didn’t bail
And couldn’t sell
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
© 2001 Tracy Chapman
“GOING BACK” LYRICS
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 glass
In a slip and past times
Are in the future brought back
Reflected reflected reflected
Every footstep
No walk in the park
No there is 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
© 2005 Tracy Chapman
“DON’T DWELL” LYRICS
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 weather’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
© 2003 Tracy Chapman
“NEVER YOURS” LYRICS
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
© 2001 Tracy Chapman
“AMERICA” LYRICS
You were lost and got lucky
Came upon the shore
Found you were conquering America
You spoke of peace
But waged a war
While you were conquering America
There was land to take
And people to kill
While you were conquering America
You served yourself
Did God’s will
While you were conquering America
The ghost of Columbus haunts this world
‘Cause you’re still conquering America
The meek won’t survive
Or inherit the earth
‘Cause you’re still conquering America
America
America
America
You found bodies to serve
Submit and degrade
While you were conquering America
Made us soldiers and junkies
Prisoners and slaves
While you were conquering America
America
America
America
You hands are at my throat
My back’s against the wall
Because you’re still conquering America
We’re sick and tired hungry and poor
‘Cause you’re still conquering America
You bomb the very ground
That feeds your own babies
You’re still conquering America
Your sons and your daughters
May never sing your praises
While you’re conquering America
America
America
America
I see you eyes seek a distant shore
While you’re conquering America
Taking rockets to the moon
Trying to find a new world
And you’re still conquering America
America
America
America
The ghost of Columbus haunts this world
‘Cause you’re still conquering America
You’re still conquering America
You’re still conquering America
© 2001 Tracy Chapman
“LOVE’S PROOF” LYRICS
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
And you’ll wait forever
For love love love’s proof
It’s not in the stars
It’s all in the proof
The chances the odds
The one you love will love
And fall for you
And fall for you
I want you
Try to forget her
You think she’s good
I’ll be better
And love you love you love you
© 2001 Tracy Chapman
“BEFORE EASTER” LYRICS
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 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 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
If Jesus comes around again
I’ll cry I’ll cry
I’ll cry for help
I’ll let you be the one
To try to redeem the sins of man
One day before Easter comes
But I won’t let Jesus find me
I’m gonna hide
Hide from him
Hide myself but not the sin
I’m gonna hide
Hide from him
Hide myself but no the sin
If Jesus comes around again
I’ve got the rock the needle
The bottle of sorrow
And Jesus Jesus Jesus knows
“TAKEN” LYRICS
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’s 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
© 2001 Tracy Chapman
“BE AND BE NOT AFRAID” LYRICS
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
And I should be and be not afraid
To reach for heaven
I may think that I know
The true heart’s needs
But my pride may bring me low
Unable to see
I’m no closer than yesterday
But tomorrow I may stand
And be and be not afraid
To reach for heaven
I’ll see the black car cavalcade
Lights on in the morn
I’ll run fast and far away
I’ll run without stopping
‘Til hear and feet fail
Or until I can stand
And be and be not afraid
Be and be not afraid
Be and be not afraid
To reach for heaven
© 2004 Tracy Chapman
“LOSE YOUR LOVE” LYRICS
If I should lose your love
I hope my heart will break
A second just before the feeling goes away
Cold and dark and still
Let that be the state
No heat no light no tremor
No welcome for the pain
If I should lose your love
Let my mind draw a blank
A second after all your love’s gone away
Silent calm and clear
Let that be the place
An empty hollow void
Where nothing is contained
If I should lose your love
This body will be my grave
And from that moment forth
Best I should fade away
To vapor dust and sand
To drift through time and space
Forever and until all has been erased
© 2000 Tracy Chapman
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