... therefore she could see what people were going through in countries with less development and felt their sorrow. The influence it had on her songs, - and consequently her lyrics -, was genuine and sincere and had a major effect on her career. In her song 'Mountains o' Things', Tracy Chapman puts herself into the place of a girl that lives in a less-developed world. She came to the world with 'mountains o' nothing at birth'. She desires to enter the "other world", the world of greed and injustice but she can not, not on her own will. She is asking for them to help her because they are the ones who have the responsibility of the condition she is into now. She lives in poverty, fear, discrimination and torture and this is a result of their need to consume lavishly to no extent. She is just hoping that they ...

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