SEARCH HERE: BROWSE 409412 LYRICS BY ARTIST/BAND NAME: #A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SITE MENU Last Updates Request Lyrics Submit / Correct Popularity Charts VISITORS Login / Register Your Thoughts My Playlists [ More Tracy Chapman lyrics ] add to playlist     see a mistake?    comment Artist/Band: Tracy Chapman Lyrics for Song: I Used To Be A Sailor Lyrics for Album: Matters Of The Heart [1992] 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 Album Lyrics: Matters Of The Heart [1992] Tracy Chapman "Matters Of The Heart [1992]" 1. So 2. I Used To Be A Sailor 3. The Love That You Had 4. Woman's Work 5. If These Are The Things 6. Short Supply 7. Dreaming On A World 8. Matters Of The Heart