They're talkin' bout a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
Don't you know
They're talkin' about a revolution
It sounds like a whisper
While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion
Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what's theirs
Don't you know
You better run, run, run...
Oh I said you better Run, run, run...
Finally the tables are starting to turn
Talkin' bout a revolution
Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, widely known for her hit singles "Fast Car" (1988) and "Give Me One Reason" (1995).
She was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987. The following year she released her debut album, Tracy Chapman, which became a commercial success, boosted by her appearance at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert, and was certified 6× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. The album received six Grammy Award nominations, including one for Album of the Year, three of which she won: Best New Artist, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single "Fast Car", and Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 1989 she released her second album, Crossroads, which earned her an additional Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Her third album, Matters of the Heart, followed in 1992.
Her fourth album, New Beginning, was released in 1995 and became another worldwide success. It was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA and yielded the hit single "Give Me One Reason", which earned her the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. Five years would pass before the release of her fifth album, Telling Stories (2000). Let It Rain and Where You Live followed in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Her most recent studio album, Our Bright Future, was released in 2008. The remastered compilation album Greatest Hits, which she curated, was released in 2015.
In 2023, Chapman became the first Black person to score a country number one with a solo composition, and to win the Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year, when Luke Combs covered her song "Fast Car".
If they take anything else it'll be from somebody else.
It's called stealing in any language and no mass of people and "activists" is big enough to legitimize it.
And especially not a dumb singer/songwriter who thought she's the next Dylan.
To poor people: Tracy's net worth is around $8 million. Take it! She'll be glad.
What about the productivity gains that normally went to the workers up into the 1970s that execs and shareholders have since been taking - that wasn't theirs? It's not called stealing when they do it? Why are they now making 300-400 times what their average employee makes when they used to do just fine making "only" 30 times as much as their employees?
Let's not have a double standard, which in any language is what you're doing. If you're going to tell us that one lying, free-loading, tax-avoiding, conniving, extremely lucky executive son of a bitch is worth 300 or more of his/her employees, I'll tell you that you're full of shit to your ears.
Until you can write music or sing as well as TC, you don't have a right to call anyone dumb. More so given this ridiculous post of yours I quoted.
If the retarded right-wing inbreds would learn what the term "socialism" actually means, they'd know Obama & 98% of the Dems ain't that.
America's a wacky place.
Where else would they fight AGAINST affordable health care for all?
The rest of the free world shakes its head in disbelief.
Do you actually know anybody? I mean really go out and talk to actual people and learn about their lives? I work for a living. On a daily basis I interact with 100s of people, different all the time every year. My theory of people who post things like this
This comment board is bizzaro world. It is not reality. Or, you are just trolling and having fun getting my goat. Right wingers do the same. It's always one side trolling against the other, nothing of substance is ever discussed.
Wrong. I run three companies, employing over 60 people and our customer base runs to 10s of thousands. . . I have a wife, grown up children and a large and multi national community I engage with. . . hardly isolated. Just because my opinion differs from you does not mean I am wrong.
Yes, I am for revolution. While every revolution in recent history has failed, that is because they are coopted or planned and promoted by the very people the revolutionaries wanted out in the first place and ended on horrid violence.
I am for a peaceful revolution. One where people wake up to the utter bollocks that is the current state of our collective world and how it is 100% manipulated by a tiny set of elites.
It is very gratifying that I see so many people actually waking up to the horrifying mess we now find ourselves in and this gives me real hope that we are indeed set for a revolution, one based simply on love and forgiveness, one where, as a collective force, we can reset this entire planet as it should be. That is what I promote to my children, my friends and to my wider community. I'm doing my bit.
And I don't want your goat thanks, I am a vegetarian.
How's that working for ya?
Great for Wall Street and the wealthy. Not so much for the poor suckers who bought his BS. And I mean the financially poor not the rest of the suckers who should have known that the earth would not cool and the oceans would not recede because this incompetent bone head was elected.
Love TC
https://blog.shanesnow.com/donald-trump-and-the-definition-of-insanity-82ab6db008c4#.yrhfw54wz
The tables may have looked like they were turning in 1988.
Here we are 25 years gone and I see no substantial improvement in Europe or N. America. Russia got itself free of communism but got thoroughly reamed by Wall Street as soon as it did, along with the "Asian Tigers". Generally, S. America is a bit more prosperous than before, but in the working classes -- the middle class is dwindling just as badly as in "The West". The Chinese are certainly on a roll -- why? 'coz they're quietly pulling the props out from under the USA, with eager assistance from American corporations. Islamic countries reel from blow to blow from the planetary bullyboy.
Revolutions come from massively coordinated rejection of the ruling order. Yet, through Google, Facebook, Twitter and mobile phone GPS we surrender daily 10,000 times more information than our rulers need in order to predict in advance which of us will respond favourably to an overture of coordinated action. Take tax declarations; 10 years ago artificial intelligence engines could run the numbers and profile every taxpayer according to their probability of avoiding taxes some time in the future. Who doubts that the next revolutionary leaders are already earmarked for a drone attack the very hour we all take to the streets?
Does anyone have a clue what the "next revolution" will look like?
The Republicans embraced and extended the Tea Party "revolution".
The Democrats embraced and extended the Occupy "revolution".
Voters vote precisely the way the ruling class tell them to vote.
Where will the next revolution come from? Where can it come from? Who could lead it?
P.S.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212
Yeah, Bill; stick to the fascist crap!
Everybody in my church loves this song...
The tables may have looked like they were turning in 1988.
I understand your bitterness about the current situation. I would say that Tracy Chapman has nothing to be ashamed with this song. It is the rest of us who should blush. We didn't listen.
So, do not take (another) mortgage.
Turn off TV - it is feeding you rubbish. Or at least do not watch: sitcoms, realities, quiz shows, standup comedians,... Just science shows.
Listen to good music.
Then you can start actually turning the tables. That seems to be the step everybody has forgotten - to actually start turning the tables. It is not a one day event, it's gonna take time and effort.
Do you actually know anybody? I mean really go out and talk to actual people and learn about their lives? I work for a living. On a daily basis I interact with 100s of people, different all the time every year. My theory of people who post things like this
This comment board is bizzaro world. It is not reality. Or, you are just trolling and having fun getting my goat. Right wingers do the same. It's always one side trolling against the other, nothing of substance is ever discussed.