Tracy Chapman以温热的灵魂乐歌声直率的表露内心对社会现象的观察，她那平实且厚实的情感音质，凝聚了歌词与歌声的情感力量，一首细腻呈现绝望人生的真切小品《Fast Car》深深的唤醒社会的良知，首张同名专辑全球销售突破千万张大关，并勇夺葛莱美奖最佳新进艺人、流行女歌手、最佳当代民谣专辑等3项大奖，更蝉连英美两地排行榜的冠军王座。
Tracy Chapman的歌声情绪始终如一，慢慢的堆积成一种动人的力量，这样的力量也随着一张张专辑的发表而更加贴近听者的心灵。她的歌曲之所以得到极高评价大部分原因在于音乐上和时下的流行趋势背道而驰，她选择了朴实的民谣使人连想到Bob Dylon的批判性，加上节奏蓝调又感觉没有说教的意味，歌曲如同说故事一般平易，成功表达了作曲者本身对社会提出的多方探讨、政治的观点与人心灵深处的自省
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Hsorry
is all that you can’t say
years gone by and still
words don’t come easily
like sorry like sorry
forgive me
is all that you can’t say
years gone by and still
words don’t come easily
like forgive me forgive me
but you can say baby
baby can I hold you tonight
maybe if I told you the right words
at the right time you’d be mine
I love you
is all that you can’t say
years gone by and still
words don’t come easily
like I love you I love you.
but you can say baby
baby can I hold you tonight
maybe if I told you the right words
at the right time you’d be mine
you’d be mine
you’d be mine