Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman

She's a flower among the weeds More beautiful than any rose I put the creases in her shoes She put the crinkle in my nose I'll have wrinkles when I'm young From all the laughing, I suppose And I'll hold your heart forever Long after I propose, oh-oh Hold her while you can 'Cause someday you won't get the chance (ooh-ooh) Cherish every moment And all the time you spend (ooh-ooh) 'Cause this life will all be over My love for you won't end So, I'll hold her while I can 'Til the one day that I get the chance again She's a doll at 83 Acting like we both just met Reminding me of times that I swore I'd not forget Now I'm 85 years old (ooh-ooh) Alone lying on this bed (ooh-ooh) Missing the sound of her voice And the three words that she once said Hold her while you can 'Cause someday you won't get the chance (ooh-ooh) Cherish every moment And all the time you spend (ooh-ooh) 'Cause this life will all be over My love for you won't end So, I'll hold her while I can 'Til the one day that I get the chance again Hold her while you can 'Cause someday you won't get the chance Cherish every moment And all the time you spend 'Cause this life will all be over My love for you won't end So, I'll hold her while I can 'Til the one day that I get the chance again

Take your fears and let them down Break your chains and live the moment Drop your weights and hop the mounts Jump the borders and cross the roads So turn off the light and let you lead Follow your heart and come with me Watching the stars and our movies The moon, this place, our memories Our memories Our memories So now I hold you on this hill And I will guide your heart to be blown away Don't be afraid by the new things Don't be so shy and talk to people 'Cause if you stay always at home You cannot live and feel your soul So close your eyes and feel the wind Warm your heart and graze your skin Take my hand and just believe In time, in fate and all those things And all those things And all those things So now I hold you on this hill And I will guide your heart to be blown away And I will guide your heart To be blown away (to be blown away) Nothing happen if you're not free And don't listen to your mind screaming That love is a key for happiness In time, fate and all those things And all those things And all those things So now I hold you on this hill And I will guide your heart to be blown away And I will guide your heart

If I had another chance tonight I'd try to tell you that the things we had were right Time can't erase the love we shared But it gives me time to realize just how much you cared Now you're gone, I'm really not the same I guess I have myself to blame Time can't erase the things we said But it gives me time to realize that you're the one instead You know I won't hold you back now The love we had just can't be found You know I can't hold you back now Now that I'm alone it gives me time To think about the years that you were mine Time can't erase the love we shared But it gives me time to realize just how much you cared You know I won't hold you back now The love we had just can't be found (Listen to me baby) You know I can't hold you back now (Ohhh-ohh-ohh) You know I won't hold you back now The love we had just can't be found You know I can't hold you back now The love we had just can't be found You know I can't hold you back now The love we had just can't be found You know I won't hold you back now

متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف وتفوت أيام وتمر سنين وانا حالي غريب انا مين انا مين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين على غفلة اتحول بركان جبار انا ضلمة وليل أنا نار ونهار متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف ماشي على طريق مكتوب مرسوم بس انا مسؤول وعليا اللوم ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول قدامي طريق همشيه همشيه نفهم في الآخر كل ده لية متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف

فوسط زحمة وناس كتير وطريق أنا ماشي فيه عكس السير وسط الطموح والأمل والتمني فاضلي خطوة توصلني فوسط حاجات ومكيفات بحاول أنسى كل اللي فات في وسط صدري ضلعي مكسور ومن خلاله قلبي شايف نور أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع فوسط الليل وأنا بعيد عن البشر شفت نور يشبه نور القمر بس القمر مسيره يفارق ويسيبني تاني مع الوحدة أحارب فوسط قصة حب يعني وهمية كان لازم أصدق اصل الوحدة قوية مش كل المشاعر حقيقية أنا شفت نور معرفتش اغمض عنيا أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع

One, two, three Why are you hanging on so tight To the rope that I'm hanging from? Off this island, this was an escape plan (this was an escape plan) Carefully timed it, so let me go And dive into the waves below Who tends the orchards? Who fixes up the gables? Emotional torture from the head of your high table Who fetches the water from the rocky mountain spring? And walk back down again to feel your words and their sharp sting And I'm getting fucking tired The capillaries in my eyes are bursting If our love died, would that be the worst thing? For somebody I thought was my saviour You sure make me do a whole lot of labour The calloused skin on my hands is cracking If our love ended, would that be a bad thing? And the silence haunts our bed chamber You make me do too much labour You make me do too much labour Apologies from my tongue, and never yours Busy lapping from flowing cup and stabbing with your fork I know you're a smart man (I know you're a smart man), and weaponise The false incompetence, it's dominance under a guise If we had a daughter, I'd watch and could not save her The emotional torture, from the head of your high table She'd do what you taught her, she'd meet the same cruel fate So now I've gotta run, so I can undo this mistake At least I've gotta try The capillaries in my eyes are bursting If our love died, would that be the worst thing? For somebody I thought was my saviour You sure make me do a whole lot of labour The calloused skin on my hands is cracking If our love ends, would that be a bad thing? And the silence haunts our bed chamber You make me do too much labour All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid Nymph then a virgin, nurse then a servant Just an appendage, live to attend him So that he never lifts a finger 24-7, baby machine So he can live out his picket fence dreams It's not an act of love if you make her You make me do too much labour All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid Nymph then virgin, nurse and a servant Just an appendage, live to attend him So that he never lifts a finger 24-7, baby machine So he can live out his picket fence dreams It's not an act of love if you make her You make me do too much labour All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid (The capillaries in my eyes are bursting) Nymph then virgin, nurse and a servant (If our love died, would that be the worst thing?) Just an appendage, live to attend him (For somebody I thought was my saviour) So that he never lifts a finger (You sure make me do a whole lot of labour) 24-7, baby machine (The calloused skin on my hands is crackin') So he can live out his picket fence dreams (If our love ends, would that be a bad thing?) It's not an act of love if you make her (And the silence haunts our bed chamber) You make me do too much labour