BANG,
BANG, BANG
TRACY
CHAPMAN
SONGWRITER: TRACY CHAPMAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: MATTERS OF THE HEART
LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1992
Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an
American singer-songwriter, known for her hits "Fast Car"
and "Give
Me One Reason", along with other singles
"Talkin' 'bout a Revolution",
"Baby
Can I Hold You", "Crossroads", "New Beginning", and "Telling Stories".
She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy
Award–winning artist.
Chapman was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her critically acclaimed
debut álbum Tracy
Chapman, which became a multi-platinum worldwide
hit. The album earned Chapman six Grammy
Award nominations, including Album of the Year, three of which she won,
including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car", and Best New Artist. Chapman released her second álbum
Crossroads the following year, which
garnered her an additional Grammy nomination. Since then, Chapman has
experienced further success with six more studio albums, which include her
multi-platinum fourth álbum New Beginning, for which she won a fourth
Grammy Award, for Best Rock Song, for its lead single "Give
Me One Reason". Chapman's most recent album is Our Bright Future,
released in 2008.
Chapman was born in Cleveland,
Ohio. Her
parents divorced when she was four years of age. She was raised by her mother,
who bought her music-loving three-year-old daughter a ukulele despite having little money. Chapman began playing the guitar and
writing songs at age eight. She says that she may have been first inspired to
play the guitar by the television show Hee Haw.
Chapman's family received welfare. In her native Cleveland, school
desegregation efforts led to racial unrest and riots; Chapman experienced
frequent bullying and racially motivated assaults as a child.
Raised as a Baptist,
Chapman attended an Episcopal high school and was accepted into the program A Better Chance,
which sponsors students at college preparatory high schools away from their home community. She graduated from Wooster School in Connecticut,
then attended Tufts University,
graduating with a B.A. degree in Anthropology and African studies.
Matters of the Heart is the third studio
album by American singer-songwriter Tracy
Chapman, released in 1992 (see 1992 in music).
It was her first not
to be produced or co-produced by David Kershenbaum.
What do you go and do
You go and give the boy a gun
Now there ain't no place to run to
Ain't no place to run
When the hold in his
hand
He feel mighty he feel strong
Now there ain't no place to run to
Ain't no place to run
One day he may come
back
Repay for what we done
Then where you gonna run to
Where you gonna run
But one fine day
All our problems will be solved
Bang bang bang
We'll shoot him down
Give him drugs and
give him candy
Anything to make him think he's happy
And he won't ever come for us
He won't ever come
But if he does
And if there's no one else around
Bang bang bang
We'll shoot him down
If he preys only on
his neighbors
Brothers sisters and friends
We'll consider it a favor
We'll consider justice done
But if he comes for
you or me
And we can place a gun in his hand
Bang bang bang
We'll shoot him dead
What you go and do
You go and give the boy a gun
Now there ain't no place to run to
Ain't no place to run
Now we'll all be at
his mercy
If he decides to hunt us down
Cause there ain't no place to run to
Ain't no place to run
If he wants the
chances that you took from him
And nothing that you own
Then there'll be no place to run to
There'll be no place to run
And if he finds
himself to be
A reflection of us all
Bang bang bang
He'll shoot us down
Before you can raise
your eyes to read
The writing on the wall
Bang bang bang
He'll shoot you down
Before you can bridge
the gulf between
And embrace him in your arms
Bang bang bang
He'll shoot you down.
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