“Change” is the intro track to Tracy Chapman’s 7th studio album, Where You Live, and is highly regarded as one of her deepest and most religious songs.
Chapman, a very conscious artist, refers to the Bible in the chorus, asking the listener a very deep and thought provoking Christian question.
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[Chorus]
If you knew that you would die today
If you 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 you cannot fall
Would you change?
Would you change?
[Verse 1]
How bad, how good does it need to get
How many losses, how much regret
What chain reaction, what cause and effect?
Makes you turn around?
Makes you try to explain?
Makes you forgive and forget?
Makes you change?
Makes you change?
[Chorus]
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 brings a pain that can't be soothed
Would you change?
Would you change?
[Verse 2]
How bad, how good does it need to get
How many losses, how much regret
What chain reaction, what cause and effect
Makes you turn around?
Makes you try to explain?
Makes you forgive and forget?
Makes you change?
Makes you change?
[Chorus]
Are you so upright 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?
[Outro]
If you knew that you would die today
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you saw the face of God and love?
If you saw the face of God and love?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Change was written by Tracy Chapman.
Change was produced by Tracy Chapman & Tchad Blake.