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Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things

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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Cleveland
Ohio
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Mountains
Enough
Graves
Prearranged
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Wide
Pauper
Make
Lonely
Consumerism
Things
Mountain
Consume
Deep
Queen
Dies
Queens
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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
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I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
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I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
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I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.
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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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Words don't come easily, like forgive me.
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I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.
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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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I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.
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This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.
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Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'
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Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
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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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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
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Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
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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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