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Tracy Chapman - I Used To Be a Sailor Lyrics

Contributed by Ida Bagus Gede Pramana Adi Putra.

published at 09 Oct, 2024

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“I Used to Be a Sailor” by Tracy Chapman is a song from her album New Beginning, released in 1995.

Song lyrics

I used to be a sailor

Who sailed across the seas

But now I'm just an island

Since they took my boat away from me

Oh no

I don't like being stationary

I like the rocky wavy motions of the sea

I sit and rot behind these padded walls

Hoping one day they'll fall

And set me free

He wrote his epitaph

He wrote his eulogy

It said "I think that I can die now

For my true love won't come for me"

Oh no

I don't like being stationary

I like the rocky wavy motions of the sea

I sit and rot behind these padded walls

Hoping one day they'll fall

And set me free

I used to be a sailor

Who sailed across the seas

But now I'm just an island

Since they took my boat away from me

Oh no

I don't like being stationary

I like the rocky wavy motions of the sea

I sit and rot behind these padded walls

Hoping one day they'll fall

And set me free

Set me free

Set me free

Set me free

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