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
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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Chapman, Tracy So Comments
God ! The soul cries
she spot on
Mi y'❤IME a ou boooookou Tracy Chapman 💕🎸🙏🎼
First time hearing and I love it!!!
Happy birdhay traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacy Chapman pour tes 55 ans 🎂🎂🎂🙏😘👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Youre extremely beautiful thank u for the music God bless c.j.
This Lady is just exceptionnel. Nowadays, it is very rare to find such musicians. Tracy, have you ever trained others ?
Tracy - I'm still listening.
James Wilson ❤🎸happy birdhay too you traaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacy Chapman 🎂
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
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
this is best song in the world .you should know really what sense of music for getting that
i love tracy chapman's songs. i love her so much. She the best in the game that the world has ever known.
ADIMIRO DESDE SEMPRE ESA DIVA
I'm ashamed of myself,just recently discovered the brilliance of Tracy... everyone should do more research
Love you too foooort Tracy Chapman 💋💗💕💞❤💓💖💋thank thank thank thank thank 👍👍👏👏👏👏✍🐂🐎🐃🐯🦄🐺🐅🐆❤
still love this lady
🐯🐃🐂🐎🐂🐂🐯🦁 meeeeeeeeerci bookou pour la vidéo belle voix interprétation magniiiiiiiiiiiiiiifique wouahou j'adooooooooooooooore 👏🎸👏🎸👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
4;42pm 1/29/2108 Montgomery Alabama
4;09pm 1/29/2018 montgomery library
super son de tracy ,j'adore!!!!
Thank you very much bravoooooooooooooo Tracy Chapman pour la vidéo du parc Belle interprétation belle voix wooooahou j'adore j'adooooooooooooooore 👏🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸👏🎸👏🎸🎶
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.
Colorful words
Best of 1970 til 1980
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.
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.......
Oh Tracy!!
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.
Daniel K such beautiful words! I feel Tracy would be moved by your genuinely spoken message!
Peace and love to you too.
Ma in italiano non si può leggere va bè la privacy ma siamo in Italia poi chi ha un altra lingua se la traduce
need some more
Amazing!!
super!!!
I love these pictures! They went with Tracy's lyrics.
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....
Powerful and beautiful!
God blessed gifted ...not talent...gifted blessed
God blessed Isaah, ... -God bless all life <3
linda canção
i love you
alot of percussion in her music..with lots of true words and emotions..nice..
Magical and beautiful.... Lots of love tracy 💓💓💓
this woman knows of what she writes and sings. thank you.
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.
Ma traduzione in italiano no perché non so le lingue?
"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
+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..
When i think, that i finally found the best Tracy's song, i find another one, that is even better
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?
David bowie?
+Denis Healy: maybeJoanArmatrading isSomethingLikePrecious TracyC..ckout..
Denis Healy , watch Kem, Sade..
That is exactly what happen on me too.
i like this music i love tracy
I love this song
wow, what a beautiful song!!!!!
je pense que c'est une vidéo du Parc Umfolozi hluhluwe près de Durban... Afrique du Sud... J'adore !
je t aime tracy beaucoup???????????????
What's w/ the African wildlife footage?
what a beautiful song. tracy's music is awesome, thank you for uploading this
Romeoegiulietta100, why is this set to African Wildlife? It doesn't have anything to do with animals!
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... ;)
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?
Madison Apparator 8 showing the world Africa is the richest where illuminating enrich themselves.
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...
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!
I wonder if Tracy is a Star Wars fan?
"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.
i start to understand the world...is a FAT world!
braviSSimA
A wonderful song!!!!
grandissima artista!