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3,000 Miles

Tracy Chapman
2005-09-134:56 minSynced lyrics

"3,000 Miles" is a song by Tracy Chapman, released in 2005 in the Pop genre. The song is 4:56 long and contains 63 lines and 296 words.

Lyrics

0:40Good girls walk fast
0:41In groups of three
0:45Fast girls walk slow
0:47On side streets
0:50Sometimes the girls who walk alone
0:55Aren't found for days or weeks
1:01On the busy boulevards
1:05Bad boys call you names
1:07And cruise you hard
1:11Bullies laugh and grin and beat
1:15Your soft skin against
1:17The cold concrete
1:21I'm 3000 miles away
1:26I'm 3000 miles away
1:31I'm 3000 miles away
1:36I'm 3000 miles away
1:41Knock you down
1:42Make you bleed
1:46Make you cry
1:47And make you think
1:51I'll die here soon if I don't leave
1:56If I don't leave if I don't leave
2:01This patch of sky and native ground
2:06Take turns to push and pull you down
2:11Forget trying to live and be happy
2:16I'll take safe and terror free
2:21I'm 3000 miles away
2:26I'm 3000 miles away
2:31I'm 3000 miles away
2:37I'm 3000 miles away
2:42Hit the floor
2:43Shut off the lights
2:45As the bullets fly
2:47Terror rules the dark night
2:49Dogs hang from the trees
2:51This training ground for punks and thieves
2:54Home of poor white retirees
2:57Who didn't bail
2:58And couldn't sell
2:59When color made the grass less green
3:02I'm 3000 miles away
3:07I'm 3000 miles away
3:12I'm 3000 miles away
3:17I'm 3000 miles away
3:41Apples are filled with razor blades
3:44But fools and innocents believe
3:46That love and faith and truth and beauty
3:49Can make a garden of this human factory
3:52I'm 3000 miles away
3:56I'm 3000 miles away
4:02I'm 3000 miles away
4:06I'm 3000 miles away
4:11Bad girls run fast
4:13Leave home alone
4:16No trace or clue of where they've gone
4:21Sometimes these girls are never found
4:26Never found never found
4:31I'm 3000 miles away
4:36I'm 3000 miles away
4:41I'm 3000 miles away
4:46I'm 3000 miles away
4:51I'm 3000 miles away
4:56I'm 3000 miles away
Good girls walk fast
In groups of three
Fast girls walk slow
On side streets
Sometimes the girls who walk alone
Aren't found for days or weeks
On the busy boulevards
Bad boys call you names
And cruise you hard
Bullies laugh and grin and beat
Your soft skin against
The cold concrete
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
Knock you down
Make you bleed
Make you cry
And make you think
I'll die here soon if I don't leave
If I don't leave if I don't leave
This patch of sky and native ground
Take turns to push and pull you down
Forget trying to live and be happy
I'll take safe and terror free
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
Hit the floor
Shut off the lights
As the bullets fly
Terror rules the dark night
Dogs hang from the trees
This training ground for punks and thieves
Home of poor white retirees
Who didn't bail
And couldn't sell
When color made the grass less green
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
Apples are filled with razor blades
But fools and innocents believe
That love and faith and truth and beauty
Can make a garden of this human factory
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
Bad girls run fast
Leave home alone
No trace or clue of where they've gone
Sometimes these girls are never found
Never found never found
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away
I'm 3000 miles away

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