now, i'm not really a tracy chapman fan...but one night a couple years ago i heard her perform this song on the tonight show and the very next day i was out buying the album...so apparently there's something about this song that struck me. i'm not sure exactly what it was that spurred the connection in me, but i'm sure it had something to do with the changes that were and needed to be occuring in my life. i mean, it is called "change", after all!
this song poses some very interesting questions. i think the most interesting (and powerful) question would be the very first one the song asks: if you knew that you were going to die, would you be able to recognize God and love... or would you be too broken and bitter to see God's love for you in all fear and pain? would you change?
if you knew that you would die today
saw the face of God and love
would you change?
would you change?
if you knew that love can break your heart
when you're down so low that you cannot fall
would you change?
would you change?
how bad, how good, does it need to get?
how many losses? how much regret?
what chain reaction would cause an effect?
makes you turn around
makes you try to explain
makes you forgive and forget,
makes you change
makes you change
if you knew that you would be alone
knowing right, being wrong,
would you change?
would you change?
if you knew that you would find a truth
that would bring a pain that can't be soothed
would you change?
would you change?
how bad, how good, does it need to get?
how many losses? how much regret?
what chain reaction would cause an effect?
makes you turn around
makes you try to explain
makes you forgive and forget,
makes you change
makes you change
are you so up right
you can't be bent
if it comes to blows
are you so sure you won't be crawling
if not for the good why risk falling
why risk falling?
if everything you think you know
makes your life unbearable
would you change?
would you change?
if you'd broken every rule and vow
and hard times come to bring you down
would you change?
would you change?
if you knew that you would die today,
if you saw the face of God and loved
would you change?
would you change?
if you saw the face of God and loved
if you saw the face of God and loved
would you change?
would you change?
1 comment:
Hi Jeff,
I found Tracy Chapman's music when she released her first album like around 1987 or so. To this day it is in my favs collection of cd's (it was a cassette tape until the cd revolution). 'Behind the Wall' to this day still haunts me. Here is the link if you haven't heard it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvFNboEEdo
I love her music, but haven't kept up with each album release. I keep her first album on hand and play it every so often.
Good pick of the week, though!
--Sara
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