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Talkin' 'bout a Revolution

Song · 1988 · Tracy Chapman. Album: Tracy Chapman

When you're waiting for things to finally turn ✊

Who it's for

Tracy Chapman sings of people stuck in poverty imagining the tables finally turning.

Worn down→Hopeful and stirred

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What it is

"Talkin' 'bout a Revolution" opens Tracy Chapman's self-titled 1988 debut album and was released as a single. It is a socially conscious song about economic inequality in the United States that expresses hope for activism and future change. Chapman wrote it in high school while attending a Connecticut preparatory school on financial aid, where she felt economically out of place.

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