Chapman, Tracy - So Lyrics






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
And you push and shove
And claim that those most worthy
Will get what they deserve
What they deserve

It can't be true
It can't be true
Because I've seen too many hungry faces
I've seen too many with the likes of you
It can't be true

For you everything has it's price
You give nothing away for free
If silence were truly golden
I guess no one could sleep
No one could sleep

You have money at your fingertips
People at your beck and call
And you're fool enough
To think for a price
You can have the whole wide world

For all our sake's
And all our lives
We must hope the words
That come from your lips
We must hope those words are lies

For all our sake's
And all our lives
We must hope the dreams
Soulless visions that you have
Are never realized

So
You've got a big house
And you drive a fancy car
So what if your pockets are full
If you have an empty heart

You snap your fingers
And all the waters part
So what if the people bow down
If they show you no regard

Your left hand
Always watches your right
So what if you trust in God
If you can't sleep at night

You think you've made it
You think you've got what everyone wants
So what if you're a big fat man
With an empty little heart

Who has made a little money
Off of somebody else's sweat
Who watched the people starve
While you got fat
While you got fat
You got fat
You got fat





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  1. S.... W....

    God ! The soul cries

  2. A.... m....

    she spot on

  3. J.... A....

    Mi y'❤IME a ou boooookou Tracy Chapman 💕🎸🙏🎼

  4. K.... ....

    First time hearing and I love it!!!

  5. J.... A....

    Happy birdhay traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacy Chapman pour tes 55 ans 🎂🎂🎂🙏😘👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  6. c.... u....

    Youre extremely beautiful thank u for the music God bless c.j.

  7. m.... R....

    This Lady is just exceptionnel. Nowadays, it is very rare to find such musicians. Tracy, have you ever trained others ?

  8. J.... W....

    Tracy - I'm still listening.

    J.... W....

    James Wilson ❤🎸happy birdhay too you traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacy Chapman 🎂

  9. M.... C....

    What's crazy about this song and several others are how they were written years ago almost as predictions of what is happening right at this moment.. Scary... There are messengers among us... I believe Tracy Chapman is one such messenger and we should be listening closely

    M.... C....

    She sees through the facade. She always has. I am so grateful she shares the truth she sees with the world- goodness knows it's needed. Best wishes friend

  10. a.... f....

    this is best song in the world .you should know really what sense of music for getting that

  11. a.... f....

    i love tracy chapman's songs. i love her so much. She the best in the game that the world has ever known.

  12. H.... N....

    ADIMIRO DESDE SEMPRE ESA DIVA

  13. A.... H....

    I'm ashamed of myself,just recently discovered the brilliance of Tracy... everyone should do more research

  14. J.... A....

    Love you too foooort Tracy Chapman 💋💗💕💞❤💓💖💋thank thank thank thank thank 👍👍👏👏👏👏✍🐂🐎🐃🐯🦄🐺🐅🐆❤

  15. R.... C....

    still love this lady

  16. J.... A....

    🐯🐃🐂🐎🐂🐂🐯🦁 meeeeeeeeerci bookou pour la vidéo belle voix interprétation magniiiiiiiiiiiiiiifique wouahou j'adooooooooooooooore 👏🎸👏🎸👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  17. P.... D....

    4;42pm 1/29/2108 Montgomery Alabama

  18. P.... D....

    4;09pm 1/29/2018 montgomery library

  19. E.... N....

    super son de tracy ,j'adore!!!!

  20. J.... A....

    Thank you very much bravoooooooooooooo Tracy Chapman pour la vidéo du parc Belle interprétation belle voix wooooahou j'adore j'adooooooooooooooore 👏🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👏🎸👏🎸🎶

  21. M.... ....

    We took a wrong direction, destroying and exploiting nature and each other. This song is touching me really, for it is reminding me of a lost paradise.

  22. K.... E....

    Colorful words

  23. G.... W....

    Best of 1970 til 1980

  24. D.... ....

    I love this Tracy's song. Also I love the video with animals. We all share the same spirit, it's just that animals are easier to be understood all though they are different kind. We have a fancy car and an empty heart. They have everything else.

  25. R.... J....

    How this video got a grown black man crying, my heart bleeds for the children, my heart bleeds for Africa, this can't be fate, this can't be what the Lord saw fit, the wicked can't continue to suck you dry while its habitants watch in starvation, this can't be life.......

  26. j.... a....

    Oh Tracy!!

  27. D.... K....

    I don't know if this is your experience, but Tracy Chapman has meant so much to me, for so many reasons. I'm a gay white guy in the midwest, who then didn't grow up poor, Black or female, but she so often connects with me, i'm moved really to say it. She gives me a voice and a place, and oddball me, square peg, goofy, strange, artsy, sensitive me finds a friendly compatriot in her words, It may all be not even so, we might not even really connect as actual people, but i so appreciate even the pretense i may have that we do. To be completely self-disclosing, though i know her "Fast Car" song was not biographical, it partly reflected my story, and my mother was a full Cherokee native, father second-gen Austrian German, and i've had my own struggles beyond my upbringing. But there is something more precious than gold about a genuinely sung poem, and i feel bad actually for the Millennials who don't really have the musical voices I was privy to growing up. I wish her and all of you well, and i wish she'd be less shy and do more interviews. I am not feeling connected to her in a stalker-sort of way, and we ARE strangers and i get that, but it's just a gift to have a telephone line across time and space to your soul, and she's made that connection with me. Thank you and peace and love to everyone.

    D.... K....

    Daniel K such beautiful words! I feel Tracy would be moved by your genuinely spoken message!

    D.... K....

    Peace and love to you too.

    D.... K....

    Ma in italiano non si può leggere va bè la privacy ma siamo in Italia poi chi ha un altra lingua se la traduce

  28. S.... O....

    need some more

  29. K.... O....

    Amazing!!

  30. m.... ....

    super!!!

  31. A.... H....

    I love these pictures! They went with Tracy's lyrics.

  32. S.... S....

    Music and singing wise Tracy Chapman is outstanding....but her lyrics are stereotype communist songs that leans heavily on cheap 'feel good' ideals except few songs....

  33. S.... S....

    Powerful and beautiful!

  34. J.... O....

    God blessed gifted ...not talent...gifted blessed

    J.... O....

    God blessed Isaah, ... -God bless all life <3

  35. I.... A....

    linda canção

  36. r.... o....

    i love you

  37. r.... ....

    alot of percussion in her music..with lots of true words and emotions..nice..

  38. M.... R....

    Magical and beautiful.... Lots of love tracy 💓💓💓

  39. S.... P....

    this woman knows of what she writes and sings. thank you.

  40. J.... B....

    My absolute favorite TC song. The harmonics, beat, and overall sound of this song is amazing. I didn't listen to the lyrics over 20 years ago. Well, subconsciously I understand why it hit me spiritually and has stayed in my heart.James Braden6 seconds agoMy absolute favorite TC song. The harmonics, beat, and overall sound of this song is amazing. I didn't listen to the lyrics over 20 years ago. Well, subconsciously I understand why it hit me spiritually and has stayed in my heart.

    J.... B....

    Ma traduzione in italiano no perché non so le lingue?

  41. d.... a....

    "So"

    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
    And you push and shove
    And claim that those most worthy
    Will get what they deserve
    What they deserve

    It can't be true
    It can't be true
    Because I've seen too many hungry faces
    I've seen too many with the likes of you
    It can't be true

    For you everything has it's price
    You give nothing away for free
    If silence were truly golden
    I guess no one could sleep
    No one could sleep

    You have money at your fingertips
    People at your beck and call
    And you're fool enough
    To think for a price
    You can have the whole wide world

    For all our sake's
    And all our lives
    We must hope the words
    That come from your lips
    We must hope those words are lies

    For all our sake's
    And all our lives
    We must hope the dreams
    Soulless visions that you have
    Are never realized

    So
    You've got a big house
    And you drive a fancy car
    So what if your pockets are full
    If you have an empty heart

    You snap your fingers
    And all the waters part
    So what if the people bow down
    If they show you no regard

    Your left hand
    Always watches your right
    So what if you trust in God
    If you can't sleep at night

    You think you've made it
    You think you've got what everyone wants
    So what if you're a big fat man
    With an empty little heart

    Who has made a little money
    Off of somebody else's sweat
    Who watched the people starve
    While you got fat
    While you got fat
    You got fat
    You got fat

    d.... a....

    +Cynthia Soresh: PeterGEvenHasOlder LpAlbum,cd,called"So" WhoKnewThenThatTCsong"So"+PGsong"BigTime" WrittenYrsAgo Would'Fit'asPerfecto DescriptionsOfPOTUS DTrump,in2017??.. IronicThatBothTC&PG HaveWorkedTogether, PerformedTogetherB4!TheyShouldSing TheseSongsLive, Back2Back,inConcert, Festival,inFuture,B4 OneOfThemLeavesUs, PassesAway,likeOther GreatLegendsWe've LostInRecentYrs,Sadly..

  42. D.... P....

    When i think, that i finally found the best Tracy's song, i find another one, that is even better

    D.... P....

    Dmitri P. Very true she's full of surprises and she tends to touch on topics most other artist can't/don't. Does anybody know of an artist similar to Tracy I'm just curious?

    D.... P....

    David bowie?

    D.... P....

    +Denis Healy: maybeJoanArmatrading isSomethingLikePrecious TracyC..ckout..

    D.... P....

    Denis Healy , watch Kem, Sade..

    D.... P....

    That is exactly what happen on me too.

  43. t.... s....

    i like this music i love tracy

  44. Z.... B....

    I love this song

  45. P.... M....

    wow, what a beautiful song!!!!!

  46. m.... E....

    je pense que c'est une vidéo du Parc Umfolozi hluhluwe près de Durban... Afrique du Sud... J'adore !

  47. a.... o....

    je t aime tracy  beaucoup???????????????

  48. B.... ....

    What's w/ the African wildlife footage?

  49. J.... G....

    what a beautiful song. tracy's music is awesome, thank you for uploading this

  50. M.... A....

    Romeoegiulietta100, why is this set to African Wildlife? It doesn't have anything to do with animals!

  51. D.... ....

    No, I have no glimpse... and I also didn´t made this video, so I have no idea why the african wildlife was taken to represent anything... :)
    Beside, tracys songs are more than just a problem in africa... ;)

  52. M.... A....

    OK.

    What's with the footage of African wildlife, though? It has nothing to do with the song. If anything, the video should show people in Africa who are starving.

    BTW, do you have any idea when her next album is coming out?

    M.... A....

    Madison Apparator 8 showing the world Africa is the richest where illuminating enrich themselves.

  53. D.... ....

    the word "fat" is not ment as in insult to people with overweight... it is imiganed as a poetic figure for something called "decadence" and at the same time it shows the contrast to the people who are starving, while this "person" is not willing to share at least a bit...

  54. A.... ....

    A Message to the Conservative Slave Owner Class. Hey Yo Jabba the Hut, We strike the empire back and return with a Blast for your mutherfuckin ass!

    A.... ....

    I wonder if Tracy is a Star Wars fan?

  55. M.... A....

    "You got fat"?

    Really, can't she be a little more subtle than that? Don't get me wrong, she's amazing. But that isn't very poetic writing.

    Also, calling the song "So" probably wasn't a good idea...even if she wasn't aware of it, it comes across as borrowing a Peter Gabriel title. But she isn't the only artist to do that.

  56. P.... P....

    i start to understand the world...is a FAT world!

  57. S.... L....

    braviSSimA

  58. M.... S....

    A wonderful song!!!!

  59. M.... D....

    grandissima artista!