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Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Cleveland
Ohio
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Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.
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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
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When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.
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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.
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After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
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You got a fast car But is it fast enough so we can fly away We gotta make a decision We leave tonight or live and die this way.
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
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My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
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I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
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As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.
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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
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With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.
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I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.
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I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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