It's funny how you can hear a song when you're young and have no life experience, then hear the same song again years later, and it hits completely different.
I was married in 1976 and my wife and I used to go for drives in the evening almost every night. It was a time when we could share where we wanted to go in life and how we could get there. They were good times and I remember them well. When this song was released in 1988 I had been divorced for a year and was now a single parent of three. This song brought back those memories and on occasion caused me grief. All those dreams gone forever. But it also inspired me. I was a Father of three young children and they relied on me to help make their dreams come true. I would take my youngsters everywhere with me. I'd listen to what they wanted and how they thought they would get there while we were out just driving around. I had a motorcycle with a sidecar in those days and we were out often just roaming around. It introduced my kids to a whole new world of bikers and how they lived and what their values were. I used to take my brats to live music venues so they could appreciate real music performed by real people. We did a lot of things together and I always tried to open their eyes up to the real world. To this day every time I hear this song I am reminded of those three babes and how much they learned from our "Driving our fast car". I never achieved so many of those things I wanted in the early days due to circumstances but I did achieve one thing. My kids still remember those days and they know who their Dad is. That's good enough for me.
We all are on a fast ride, a ride which can end at any moment. Souls ain´t alright nor right with GOD, to go back home. Choosing not to repent and BORN AGAIN, souls still daily live in sins. (Luke: 13:3 KJV) Perishing because of the knowledge, which they didn´t care about knowing. (HOSEA 4:6 KJV)
Tracy did not grow up in Poverty. What is remarkable is how she inhabits what it feels like to struggle. To have little money when the world says that you can never have enough. She is Singing a Feeling... a moment in time that most everyone can relate to even not having lived it.
There are songs that cause you to dance, there are songs that cause you to sing out loud, and there are songs that keep you silent in the stillness of your soul . This song is the latter…truly touching
I was in my early 20s when I moved to Canada to find a better life for myself. This song was released right about that time and I fell in love with it instantly. It's one of those songs that makes you happy and sad at the same time. It always reminds me of those days.
I can so relate to your words. I was 13 when we left the UK to live in Vancouver. From a small northern village to a high school of 3,500! I was lonely and terrified of this new life of which I had no choice. I always turned to music for answers. All kinds of music. Country touched me deeply. Tracy Chapman, not only for the amazing lyrics that touched home for me, but for her rich deep and soulful voice. @@agolzad
Oh how I remember where I was when I first heard this song. I was in a terrible marriage, looking for a way out. I bought the CD (which btw has numerous great songs), and listened to this over and over again. It's an emotionally and melodically complicated song that clearly resonates with SO MANY different people. Thank you, Tracy Chapman, and I'm so glad I got to see you sing this live.
First time I heard this song I was in a bad marriage. I was coming home from work and I related to it right away and I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to hearing it all the time.
It’s so rare that a song can paint a picture that makes you feel as if you’ve watched a whole movie with these characters and are feeling the emotions right there with them
She's got more talent in her little finger than Taylor Swift's whole body. She should be a super star and she probably would be if she were white and blonde. Sad but true
35 years ago this was a masterpiece of writing and singing. 35 years later? Still a complete masterpiece. Tracy sounds just as good. Man, she looks like she aged about 2 hours! Incredibly talented. Her blues guitaring is sensational. Beautiful musician.
Her 1988 Oakland Coliseum show was one of the best live performances of all time. I've watched it dozens of times and it blows me away each time I watch it.
This is called real talent. Never heard of this song until the Grammys 2024, and now I cant stop listening to it. It came out before I was born. Thanks Tracy for sharing this treasure with us.
I was a 22yo wreck this song hit me dead in the face, I started trying to get my life together after a tremulous childhood and then a heartbreaking breakup and what do u know it comes back and hits me dead in the face again
Growing up with an alcoholic father ,dropped out of school as an A student at his request, only to lose him to suicide 18 years after. This is my story as a grown man whose been recovering from addiction myself. Broken homes. Shattered lives , this song touches lives on so many levels.....
I hope you have been able to get your life together. We can decide to live in our past and be victims or turn the page and be grateful for surviving that and being stronger for it. I chose to live my life with no regrets. It’s not easy but it’s worth it!
Pure, raw talent. Just her amazing voice, and a guitar. No filters, no flashing lights, dancers or anything. Just Tracy Chapman singing so beautifully.
She certainly doesn’t need any studio recording tricks to make her voice better. Sounds every bit as amazing live as it does on the radio. Awesome song!
Remember this song growing up, always playing in background, now listening to the lyrics at 40, this has to be one of the best songs ever written, it hits me in the gut, she is truly gifted.
I absolutely love the fact that you could literally hear a pin drop during most of this song because the audience was dead silent just listening to her sing an absolute legendary piece of work. Love this song even more now than when I heard it when I was younger. Means soo much more now.
Yes. Immortality is when popular opinion becomes fact. It is believed to be, so it is. Fucked up how existential life had become. It really became immortal not too long after it was released, we were just too young/ naive to realize it.
So... immortal? Dunno if that's quite the word, but... I'm a 78 year old white guy who was frickin' BLOWN AWAY when this song first appeared on VH1 in 1988. I was a pastor in Birmingham AL and was captivated by it. I just joined Ultimate Guitar (subscription), logged in... had to select a decade - hmmm... picked the 80s (some of the greatest pop music EVER made) - and somehow, of the 10s of 1,000s of songs I could have picked from the catalog to find the chords to was... Yep... Tracy's Fast Car. So, here I am... again - as deeply impressed by the simplicity of the chord progression and the stunning depth of the gut-wrenching lyrics of heart-longing as the first time I heard it. THAT, my brothers & sisters IS A SONG, IS MUSIC. Thanks, Tracy, for breaking the glass ceiling of a young black female soloist with GUTS and your message waaaay back in 1988.
This song speaks to the struggle of the average person especially marginalized members of our society. It's quite a composition. There's just something special about Tracy Chapman.
While I understand where you’re coming from when watching videos. But I must admit that there is nothing like a good crowd sing along. Gives me goose bumps each time. Shows the importance of the song to everyone who was singing along.
I’ve never seen Tracy Chapman live but I did shoot KD Lange’s show in Portland. It was as epic, I imagine. I had to put down my camera to cry when she sang Hallelujah.
God Bless you Tracy for this beautiful beautiful song 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I just love this song and all of your beautiful music well done sweetie ❤❤❤❤❤❤
"Fast Car" is a song by Tracy Chapman that tells a poignant story of hope, longing, and the pursuit of a better life. It portrays the struggles and aspirations of a young woman seeking to escape her current circumstances and find a better future. The song begins with the narrator's desire to escape her dead-end town and her mundane life. She dreams of owning a fast car as a means of leaving her troubles behind and embarking on a new journey. The fast car represents freedom, opportunity, and the chance to break free from the limitations imposed on her. Throughout the song, Chapman weaves a narrative that highlights the harsh realities and challenges faced by the protagonist. She yearns for a different life, away from poverty, hardship, and unfulfilled dreams. The lyrics reflect the longing for something better and the willingness to take risks to achieve it. As the song progresses, the narrator's dreams become entangled with a romantic relationship. She meets someone who also seeks to escape their circumstances, and together they hope to build a better life. However, despite their initial optimism, the relationship becomes strained, and the narrator realizes that the other person's promises may be empty. This realization forces her to confront the harsh truth that simply escaping her current situation may not solve all her problems. "Fast Car" ultimately conveys a sense of bittersweet reality. It portrays the struggles faced by individuals living in poverty and the challenges of breaking free from such circumstances. While the fast car represents the hope of a better life, it also serves as a reminder that true happiness and fulfillment require more than just physical escape. The song's lyrics are powerful and evocative, addressing themes of socioeconomic inequality, the yearning for a better future, and the complexities of human relationships. Tracy Chapman's soulful delivery and the song's stripped-down, acoustic sound contribute to its emotional impact, making "Fast Car" a timeless anthem that resonates with listeners on a personal and universal level.
She doesn't dream of owning a fast car. She's singing about her boyfriend who has a fast car, and as she tries to work their way out of poverty, he loses jobs and drives around late at night with his friends, not helping at all, and she watches her dream of a better life slowly get further and further away.
I was born and raise in another country and not having a clue what she was singing about I'm now living in the States. I'm so fortunate to be able to understand what she sings about ¡Bravo!
OH tHOMAS! I wish you could understand. When you grow up so far DOWN, so much pain and heartache. All you can see as a little one is being in a fast car (life going 100 miles an hour), your father breaking your little heart and you see nothing and no way out, nowhere to go. But when you are strong and look up, you can capture what you feel in the music. She held on to it so tightly. FOR YEARS. Many like me identified with what she was saying. No one, NO ONE heard her until someone else in another culture identified with her plight. Now, just like from the beginning of time, in real time she is heard. Can you understand where I'm coming from? You have to have been there, lived those words she transformed, to hear her plight. What a great poet, musician, and artist. AMEN. (PS) Thomas, welcome to the USA. So glad you are here.
I've loved this song since it was released in the late 80s. More recently, I've studied trauma and adverse childhood conditions, and I can say this song so poignantly captures the desperate plight of so many souls. Look at the way that the song seems to meander in the first half in the same locked pattern - like the way people are locked into the patterns of their lives. This musical repetition seems to go on longer than is usually expected in a song: when we think it ought to break into a chorus, it returns to "You got a fast car..." and holds the same pattern. It builds a tension which makes the break, when it comes, more powerful. The chorus "I remember we were driving..." is that emotional outpour, not quite a dam burst, but a surge of desperate hope fueled by one single moment in time where everything felt right, or right enough, in which she glimpsed a fleeting vision of how life could and should be, where she felt she belonged and could be someone. "Be someone, be someone," echoes the desperation of those whose thwarted ambitions are inextricably bound in self-defeating patterns and trauma. And then the musical surge is lost and, true to the nature of emotional dissociation, we go back again to the repetition of "You got a fast car..." In writing the song, Tracy was surely too young to have technical knowledge of things like trauma and dissociation - and yet it's there - she knew it introspectively, and captured it instinctively as an artist in the lyrics and how they are woven with the music. The song doesn't flinch in honestly portraying that such positive dreams aren't enough for so many people who hold on to the vision for a while, as reality continues to fail to meet it, and it becomes less real to them, until that one inspiring memory of feeling a sense of belonging loses its power as emotional fuel for the future, and comes to be just a memory of a moment in one's past, though a memory still worth cherishing. The song has been beautifully breaking my heart for 35 years.
Just pure raw talent. This song is all about dreams. Without dreams we die. The only way to make it in life is to dream big and never let anyone tell you that you cant make it. Believe in you always, Always.
Believe in You, Always! I’m old now, but doubt and uncertainty never got me what I needed. Follow your dreams, you may find out that your dreams lead to something unexpected, but even better than you imagined.
Not only is this a beautiful song. But the lyrics are so impactful. I’ve been listening since it was released and it has the same impact on me even now. Genius at work
one of the best songs ever written. It grabs hold of your soul and takes you for a ride. Absolutely beautiful. I never get tired of heard this, any time, any where.
Concordo com você meu amigo James essa fera tracys quê canta demais e com uma simplicidade com sua guitarra..por onde quer quê vá trás sempre no rosto um sorriso tão cativante e meiguice no olhar é coisa de louco muito linda como às músicas 🎶 🎶 🎶 quê éla interpreta..meus parabéns pôr ter tanto gosto como éu ok..então quê Deus te abençoe sempre desta sua nova amiga Estrela da Conceição beijos 👄 💋 🎵 🔥🎶🎶🎵🎵💘🎼🎼💘👍👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
I think it was the N.Y. Times that did a hit piece on Combs for what they claimed was effectively a racist steal of a black woman's signature song. Tracy doesn't think so. Combs explained it was his favorite song growing up and he did it as a tribute to Tracy, nothing more. Some people are just so full of hate that they can never see anything positive in anything. All they see is race and hate.
Thank you Tracy for your talent, your clean voice , your music , it was a pleasure to see you at the 2024 Grammy, you showed that we still have real artists.
I agree with Frank Bruno of the New York Times (in his opinion article of this week): this song is perfect. Ms. Chapman’s voice is clear, ever so poignant, and agelessly beautiful; her inner and her outer beauty is timeless, everlasting; her eyes both (1) invite us to her soul; and (2) drill into ours with ruthless, but loving precision. Like so many others who commented, I have loved this song since she first gave it to us and it never ever loses its luster. I first heard Fast Car when I was 27; now, at 61, it is still one of my very few “go to” songs for comfort, solace, and inspiration. Thank you for sharing this precious gem, Ms. Chapman!
Tracy Chapman. Fast Car. Love this song. Hits on such a personal level and im sure many have gone through similar or same circumstances. Tracys voice brings back nostalgia.
There's is something about this song that makes me cry remember I was in a shelter homeless work was hard too find with a girlfriend and a child on the way am glad grateful today a home two grown children I love this song
@@animal1nstinct394Luke Combs is great, but he has never lived in poverty, so his rendition doesn’t resonate with me. I grew up in a dead broke household but had excellent family support, this song has a special place in my heart.
@@trenragerYou couldn't have put it any better. I live in a 3rd world country. I never lacked beyond what I really needed, as my family is middle class. But this original rings deep.
@@trenrageryou do realize that Tracy grew up in a working class neighborhood in Cleveland. How is that any different that Luke combs? Seems like you are assuming instead of gathering the facts
@@animal1nstinct394 Luke Combs version of this is a good song with a good sound, but Tracy's version of it is a great song that touches your soul. There's no comparison between the two
My mom who passed away loved this song so I did too. Luke combs brought those feelings to the surface again and I'm so thankful for this song. I'm tired of all the comparisons, both songs are amazing. Even tracey doesn't like all the hate revolving around Luke's cover.
I am a SERIOUS Springsteen fan since 1975, BUT I am just saying that....... Whoaaa! Sounds as good as about any version live of "Thunder Road". Girl Power at WORK.
Her voice is velvet. I’m glad Combs covered this and brought it to a new generation who may have forgotten this masterpiece. Real music fans will always go looking for the original, so they get introduced to Chapman
Can you imagine how amazing it must be to write a song, sing it and have generations and generations fall in love with your words, your voice, your story, your feelings, your talent, you! I really wish I had such talent
Vivo en México y Tracy Chapman ha estado en mí repertorio musical desde niña, tantos maravillosos artistas desde los 50´s.60´s,70´s,80´s, 90´s, algunos ya se han ido y otros simplemente han sido olvidados...sé que hay música nueva, pero espero que se comience a revivir la buena música del pasado y no darla al olvido...son reliquias musicales.
Masterpiece, thank you Tracy Chapman for blessing the world with your talent. You rock at the Grammy what a beautiful surprise. I hope the Grammys remember to always bring back the artists that played a huge role in our childhood.
Muito joia Legal essas músicas internacional anos 80 70 me lembro quando a essência muito bacana quando era criança recordação me leva muito Tenho saudade daquele tempo😁😆😃🤩
I likr this song. It reminds me of my daughter who is at that point in her life that she makes some important decisions - stay and be tormentef or leave and live! May God help her to leave and come and live with her dad. I love her a lot❤. She's my princess!
There is something so achingly, yearningly sad about this song. It sounds like the opposite of having your whole life ahead of you. Like it’s already too late and you’re almost at the finish line, without having to truly live at all. Definitely one of the saddest songs for me, from the melody, the lyrics, even Tracy’s beautiful tone.
"I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere" are such sad lyrics. At the beginning she has hopes that life can get better, and plans for how they can accomplish that. Now all her hopes are dashed. 😞
Being 59 years old- I'm pretty sure I'll be in the grave before this song ever will. It's simple, it's sad, it's true and it can be played on the largest stage with only a guitar and Tracy's splendid voice. I think we all had a 'Fast Car' in our live.
"You ain't gonna go that soon dear brother Thomas. I PRAY for a long wholesome life for you and loads & loads of LOVE, JOY, PEACE & PROSPERITY always! GOD BLESS you always!" 🤗❤️🙏🏼🙌🏼
I have one of two involuntary reactions when I hear this song. Either I gently weep OR, I crank the volume up to a “10” and belt the song at the top of my lungs. 35 years and 1,000 plays later, this song still deeply touches my soul. 🤍
This is one of those songs that forces you to feel. You can’t ignore the poignancy of the words. Especially because so many kids have lived this exact story. It absolutely does break your heart when you think that despite what this child is experiencing, she still has dreams. Big, ridiculous dreams that may never come true. And yet, you find yourself almost in tears praying that she makes it. Such an amazing song. I remember the first time I heard it. I went to the record store the next day and bought it. So many, many years later, with all the pain and trauma that life throws at you, it really lands with more impact because it’s so damned real. We didn’t have a word back then. We do now. Parentification. The worst thing short of molestation a parent to do to their child.
You keep driving forward. 1 step at a time. Don't worry how long it takes to get there...you'll get there when YOU'RE supposed to get there. Sorry for you loss.
i too have one for my dead brother ( even 2) both japanese i don't know why but i feel they are better at make feel the feeling before and after a lost...
Your Dad is still with you inside you. You will hear his voice in your thoughts. Find yourself acting like him. Doing something the way he did it. Beyond the grief you will find him still with you.
The lyrics say “I got no plans, I ain’t going nowhere” and you can feel the weight of that decision: to accept that you are and will forever be trapped living a life without happiness. I respect you, Tracy. Thank you for writing this song
I know this this song evercince it came out,but I never paid real attention to it , never listend to the entire song and listening to the lyrics. I rediscovered it on TH-cam about 3 weeks ago, I listen every day since.
Sorry, but i desagree. If you read the complete song, i think that lyric means that she got what she want (got a job pays all the bills, children...), but her boyfriend didnt. So, she doesnt want to go anywhere, because she got what she was finding; Then, breaks with the boyfriend and tells hin to take a car and go away, and find his own life.
@@gonzalolopezdelerena5859 I agree, I don't think she is saying she is forever trapped in a life without happiness, but that her hopes and dreams to build something better with her man (now the father to her children) are now gone, and she continues to do the responsible thing, as a mother and provider, and is telling her man to get it together or get out, which I think is her accepting her situation. While not completely hopeless, it shows the struggle to escape the cycles of our parents, our situation. Not a happy ending, but at the same time she is not giving up to a life of unhappiness, while at the same time she realizes as a mother, and older, those youthful dreams are over, but she is still working on providing for her kids. So while splitting hairs a bit, it is definitely not a "happy ending", and it is sad her man doesn't have his stuff together for his family, and dreams of something much bigger/better have faded.
This song was my anthem of hope when I was 14! Growing up in addiction, poverty, and a broken home I wasn’t suppose to make it.....but here I am! I haven’t heard the song in years but It came on the radio this morning taking my husband to work and I just broke down! What a whirlwind of emotions! Thank you Tracy for this beautiful song that forever changed a lost broken little boy that is now a grown very successful blessed man!
Good Lord, she sounds better now than ever! I saw her in Cleveland when the song was first released. Could not be happier for her and Luke did right giving her the spotlight.
She is truly gifted. In high school when I heard it, I loved the melody and guitar. Not until now do I hear the heart breaking lyrics. She never over sings either.
I saw Tracy Chapman do this song live in Tokyo in 1988, when she opened for the Human Rights Now! tour headlined by Sting, Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen and Youssou N'Dour. But she was the highlight for me of the entire evening. Just like this video, she had corn rows, jeans, a t-shirt and a guitar. There was no back-up band. I got goosebumps. She is still the same, incredible, authentic human, thank God. It's on my bucket list to meet you in person and hug you someday Tracy!
I understand you perfectly. Life tramples you down. Hope is like this song, mixed with sadness and longing that it didn’t turn out quite the way you wanted.
I hear you almost 50 and nothing seems new fresh or exciting anymore. Only things that remain interesting are the materialistic luxuries and not people
I am 6 years younger than her I remember that song growing up got me through a lot of hard times know I am a Fisherman u own his own boats with everything paid for thanks Tracy❤
Most people don't realize this song goes deep into the struggles to grow, make a better living, how delusions and addiction can damage life, the fast car is that analogy to shortcuts and false expectations that life will be easier somehow. Those who had a hard upbringing or parents with alcohol abuse will get it.
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It's funny how you can hear a song when you're young and have no life experience, then hear the same song again years later, and it hits completely different.
Luke Coombs cover did just that
is that’s what’s happening???
I *just* had this thought and then saw your comment. Huge wave of nostalgia/melancholy washed over me
@@cara8302Same. Makes you reflect on life.
Ain’t it fun by Paramore gave me that exact feeling
Here after her 2024 Grammy performance anyone?
Yep.😊
You betcha!
Yes but I’ve been a fan since the 90s.
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Of course
I was married in 1976 and my wife and I used to go for drives in the evening almost every night. It was a time when we could share where we wanted to go in life and how we could get there. They were good times and I remember them well.
When this song was released in 1988 I had been divorced for a year and was now a single parent of three. This song brought back those memories and on occasion caused me grief. All those dreams gone forever. But it also inspired me. I was a Father of three young children and they relied on me to help make their dreams come true. I would take my youngsters everywhere with me. I'd listen to what they wanted and how they thought they would get there while we were out just driving around. I had a motorcycle with a sidecar in those days and we were out often just roaming around. It introduced my kids to a whole new world of bikers and how they lived and what their values were. I used to take my brats to live music venues so they could appreciate real music performed by real people. We did a lot of things together and I always tried to open their eyes up to the real world.
To this day every time I hear this song I am reminded of those three babes and how much they learned from our "Driving our fast car". I never achieved so many of those things I wanted in the early days due to circumstances but I did achieve one thing. My kids still remember those days and they know who their Dad is. That's good enough for me.
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Thats an awesome , inspiring story fe keep them memorable times close by fr
Awesome buddy !!!
As a child of a broken man who had a broken man as father and grandfather, I think what you've accomplished is already a great thing.
This song is timeless ❤❤thank you Tracy !who’s listening in 2024
Yup! Goosebumps
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She just came back for another rendition with Luke Combs at the Grammys!
Yes❤
Absolutely everyone after that grammy's performance, its No2 on iTunes one day later! Strike that, No 1 !
How can someone write a song that breaks your heart and lifts your soul at the same time? Absolute legend.
Could just cry memories
Powerful!!
When they been to places only few are lucky to come back from
@@douglasfraser5799 me too
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This is crazy how she basically wrote a movie in lyrical form. 😮
I never thought of it like that but now that you mentioned it,I totally agree
Tracy grew up in poverty, when she sings you can feel her reaching out to us from those childhood moments. God bless you!
We all are on a fast ride, a ride which can end at any moment. Souls ain´t alright nor right with GOD, to go back home.
Choosing not to repent and BORN AGAIN, souls still daily live in sins. (Luke: 13:3 KJV)
Perishing because of the knowledge, which they didn´t care about knowing. (HOSEA 4:6 KJV)
Tracy did not grow up in Poverty. What is remarkable is how she inhabits what it feels like to struggle. To have little money when the world says that you can never have enough. She is Singing a Feeling... a moment in time that most everyone can relate to even not having lived it.
She rocked the Grammy’s.
She shined like a star.✨💞
It was a beautiful duet.
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Her smile was everything ❤️
There are songs that cause you to dance, there are songs that cause you to sing out loud, and there are songs that keep you silent in the stillness of your soul . This song is the latter…truly touching
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beautifully stated.
I love this song, it goes down deep, full of love, faith and hope😢❤❤❤❤❤❤
Gloria of Tampa FL
@@pamoramaYea, I might have to plagiarize that in a poem. 🤣
Aloha. You forgot songs that will make you cry!
35 yrs after the original release she takes the 2023 CMA Song of the Year award! BRAVO TRACY! X
Ditto!
I was in my early 20s when I moved to Canada to find a better life for myself. This song was released right about that time and I fell in love with it instantly. It's one of those songs that makes you happy and sad at the same time. It always reminds me of those days.
I can so relate to your words. I was 13 when we left the UK to live in Vancouver. From a small northern village to a high school of 3,500! I was lonely and terrified of this new life of which I had no choice. I always turned to music for answers. All kinds of music. Country touched me deeply. Tracy Chapman, not only for the amazing lyrics that touched home for me, but for her rich deep and soulful voice. @@agolzad
Kind of a slap in the face that it took this long... But good that it happened nonetheless.
Finally the world catches up with Tracy Chapman's greatness
No fancy light, props dancing, costume..just pure singing..pure Gold.
Yes! True artistry.
Beautiful voices aren't enchanced with clothes or other things. Guitar & Beautiful voice......timeless
And depth of soul
, no light show, no costumes, dancing . just Real deal
yep - "nothing to prove" as the lyrics state
Oh how I remember where I was when I first heard this song. I was in a terrible marriage, looking for a way out. I bought the CD (which btw has numerous great songs), and listened to this over and over again. It's an emotionally and melodically complicated song that clearly resonates with SO MANY different people. Thank you, Tracy Chapman, and I'm so glad I got to see you sing this live.
Same here! Bad marriage.. fast car was my song.. it gave me hope.. got out and my life changed!
Yep, I remember my sister-in-law had the whole album on cassettes. She played it over and over daily😊. I always love Tracy C.
First time I heard this song I was in a bad marriage. I was coming home from work and I related to it right away and I thoroughly enjoyed it and look forward to hearing it all the time.
Ok @pamorama now you got me 😢 ❤❤❤❤😊
This lady is not married, but she gives the best marriage advise. We are now 8 years married with my baby girl who I love so much ❤❤
It’s so rare that a song can paint a picture that makes you feel as if you’ve watched a whole movie with these characters and are feeling the emotions right there with them
Verdade eu me sinto tão leve
Me has borrado.e sido llo lo siento te agradecería que vol vieras .a restablecer todo.90...
She's got more talent in her little finger than Taylor Swift's whole body. She should be a super star and she probably would be if she were white and blonde. Sad but true
Absolutely agree
Perfect description of this song and the lyrics.
35 years ago this was a masterpiece of writing and singing. 35 years later? Still a complete masterpiece. Tracy sounds just as good. Man, she looks like she aged about 2 hours! Incredibly talented. Her blues guitaring is sensational. Beautiful musician.
I’m crying
Her 1988 Oakland Coliseum show was one of the best live performances of all time. I've watched it dozens of times and it blows me away each time I watch it.
@@bentk1120 is it on TH-cam
@@bentk1120 got it. Watched it, amazing talent, audience knew how to appreciate and enjoy.
one of the best songs written - EVER
There is not a sole on earth, nor will ever be, that can cover this song better than the original.
No way no how.
Exactly
Luke Combs covered it and sang it with her at the Grammys!
I enjoy Luke Combs’ version, but I always have to listen to hers after
It is definitely her song no matter who sings it
I hope not, but you never know. She is crazy talented and sings from the soul.
Songs like this can only be written by an artist not an entertainer
The only difference between this version and the latest Comb’s release is Tracy’s sends shivers up your spine.
And tears down your face
I love both versions but yeah, agree! Tracy’s version is just powerful.
You are so right!!!
She slowed it down just enough to make me lock myself in the bathroom
And so does Luke. They are both incredible
Pure legend. One of the best songs ever written. Period.
Yes- one of the best songs written by a human being❤love you Tracy Chapman.
Couldn't agree more!
100% agree
Yes she is wicked to my sonxxxx
Agree.
Knocked me flat when this first came out in 1988, still does in 2024. Timeless, Haunting Classic 😊
Haunting, yes
This is called real talent. Never heard of this song until the Grammys 2024, and now I cant stop listening to it. It came out before I was born. Thanks Tracy for sharing this treasure with us.
I was a 22yo wreck this song hit me dead in the face, I started trying to get my life together after a tremulous childhood and then a heartbreaking breakup and what do u know it comes back and hits me dead in the face again
This is the most timeless and beautifully written song of all time. This rings deep into your soul.
Me too. i feel like ive known this song for 30 years and i havent even been alive that long.
Growing up with an alcoholic father ,dropped out of school as an A student at his request, only to lose him to suicide 18 years after. This is my story as a grown man whose been recovering from addiction myself. Broken homes. Shattered lives , this song touches lives on so many levels.....
Hang in there buddy ❤
@@dettol3647 guess he needed a different AA
God bless you ❤
Sir, days will soon get better.
I hope you have been able to get your life together. We can decide to live in our past and be victims or turn the page and be grateful for surviving that and being stronger for it. I chose to live my life with no regrets. It’s not easy but it’s worth it!
This song still feels fresher than ever in 2023... Absolutely timeless 😊❤
Amen
God Bless Tracy Chapman 🙏
💯
Agree. It’s hits harder though as the years go by. At 68 the emotions are different than they were at 33.
@@Pelican5077I totally agree, i m 46, feel the same, of course not the same impact, but the way you discribe
The live version sounds exactly the same as the recorded version what a legend
Pure, raw talent. Just her amazing voice, and a guitar. No filters, no flashing lights, dancers or anything. Just Tracy Chapman singing so beautifully.
One woman, one guitar and a million hearts touched. So many emotions captured so beautifully. The world needs more Tracy's instead of all this hate
I agree black lives matter
way more than a million hearts bro
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It’s billions heart bro 😎
God bless your pure heart Brother, Carry on.
This type of song makes an artist immortal.
Best comment I ever had the pleasure of reading
an artist
@@deanonewton8704 I'm sorry about that.
Hemajl molla I’m
@@deanonewton8704 😂😁😂
I was 14 when this song came out ...I'm 51 now , she still sounds bad ass !
Totally agree. This song is like wine. It's even better and more heart wrenching now.
She a true talent
Yep! I’m 60 now, I loved this song when it first came out ! I loved it then…and I love it now! 💕
Really??
"You gotta make a decision. Leave tonight or live and die this way." I am listening on repeat...and I will make a decision. Thank you Tracy.
I will leave on my bicycle! :)
I will leave on foot tonight, since I don’t have a bicycle nor a car.😂
She certainly doesn’t need any studio recording tricks to make her voice better. Sounds every bit as amazing live as it does on the radio. Awesome song!
I keep telling everyone that 80's and back singers had real talent. They didn't need voice overs or a computer to make them sound better.
@@missjo2036 no disrespect to any of these artists (80s is probably my favourite era of music , ) but was it invented back then?
Cap if you ask me it’s pretty mid
@@christrinidad3360nah its cap.
@@CarWizard random seeing the Wizard in the comments of a TH-cam suggested music rabbit hole but I'm not disappointed
Remember this song growing up, always playing in background, now listening to the lyrics at 40, this has to be one of the best songs ever written, it hits me in the gut, she is truly gifted.
You just said everything I feel. ❤
Just turned 40 this year, and I can say we probably remember hearing this song at the exact same time. 😊 it’s a masterpiece.
I read the lyrics for the first time today and I agree so much. Those lyrics are sooooo good.
4 real 🔥🙏🏽
I first heard this song when I was already about 40 yrs old ....... and I knew right away that it was one of the best songs ever written! Still is!
I absolutely love the fact that you could literally hear a pin drop during most of this song because the audience was dead silent just listening to her sing an absolute legendary piece of work. Love this song even more now than when I heard it when I was younger. Means soo much more now.
35 years. That's how you know it's timeless
This song has undoubtedly withstood the test of time. It has perhaps reached a point where we can agree that it is immortal
Yes. Immortality is when popular opinion becomes fact. It is believed to be, so it is. Fucked up how existential life had become. It really became immortal not too long after it was released, we were just too young/ naive to realize it.
Could not agree more. 😫
Super agree👍👍👍
Ooh yeah
So... immortal? Dunno if that's quite the word, but... I'm a 78 year old white guy who was frickin' BLOWN AWAY when this song first appeared on VH1 in 1988. I was a pastor in Birmingham AL and was captivated by it. I just joined Ultimate Guitar (subscription), logged in... had to select a decade - hmmm... picked the 80s (some of the greatest pop music EVER made) - and somehow, of the 10s of 1,000s of songs I could have picked from the catalog to find the chords to was... Yep... Tracy's Fast Car. So, here I am... again - as deeply impressed by the simplicity of the chord progression and the stunning depth of the gut-wrenching lyrics of heart-longing as the first time I heard it. THAT, my brothers & sisters IS A SONG, IS MUSIC. Thanks, Tracy, for breaking the glass ceiling of a young black female soloist with GUTS and your message waaaay back in 1988.
I am 58 years old. This is one of the most impactful songs I've ever heard, back in the day.
Still hits deep when I hear it now
58 years sir what gets you
Its just a song about how much you care I thought at first. But I m an idiot and a fool this lady knew the future
Back at you.
Me too
I’d pay big money to see this sung live. Absolute legend!
Hello Tracy, happy thanksgiving!
I'll give it a shot if you like! What kinda money are we talking about?
Joking, of course 😏
She just performed the Grammys with Luke Combs❤
You can feel and hear all the pain in her voice. I love this song.
We don't look for old songs, we look for the memories they carry
Like
More like the PASSION musicians used to have for their art
They bring the best times in our lives come back
Beautifully said!! ❤
Beautiful melodies Tracy🇿🇦🇿🇼
This storytelling in this song is so vivid and well-written. A timeless masterpiece that never fails to make me smile. Thank you, Tracy.
This song speaks to the struggle of the average person especially marginalized members of our society. It's quite a composition. There's just something special about Tracy Chapman.
I've played this video so many times today. Thank you for this song, Tracy. It speaks to so many of us.
Credit to the audience for not singing along and allowing us to hear her beautiful voice.
I know right, it was a credit to her that big audience was almost silent during this
All this time I thought she's a he O.O
Awesome
While I understand where you’re coming from when watching videos. But I must admit that there is nothing like a good crowd sing along. Gives me goose bumps each time. Shows the importance of the song to everyone who was singing along.
Her beautiful voice? You mean *his* beautiful voice! That is a man!
Who's listening to Tracy Chapman in 2021, this song and performance was amazing🤩, like if u agree..
I’ve never seen Tracy Chapman live but I did shoot KD Lange’s show in Portland. It was as epic, I imagine. I had to put down my camera to cry when she sang Hallelujah.
I’ll still have this and revolution on my playlist when I’m 80 🤙🏻
TC is amazing
Yes, I saw Her the first time on the Tonight Show, I think it was, in the 80s! I got Her Cassettes!
Jordan - STOP IT!!!!
God Bless you Tracy for this beautiful beautiful song 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 I just love this song and all of your beautiful music well done sweetie ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Introduced my late son to Tracy Chapman he absolutely adored this song RIP Chris will see you one dayxxx
One of the greatest songs ever written.
You got that right.
I totally agree!
I liked when she smiled at .the beginning of the song, because she knew the crowd is gonna like this one
From one of the best artists ever. The term 'artist' gets thrown around way too often, but doesn't even scratch the surface of TC's magnificence.
@@rogerbyington5640 0000000000000000000horas con
This woman's musical genius was granted by God Himself.
Tracy is one of the true gifts of our lifetimes. This song stays with you forever. Be some one - good!
The whisper quality of her voice. Goosebumps
When she sings ‘take your fast car and keep on driving’ my heart breaks!
"Fast Car" is a song by Tracy Chapman that tells a poignant story of hope, longing, and the pursuit of a better life. It portrays the struggles and aspirations of a young woman seeking to escape her current circumstances and find a better future.
The song begins with the narrator's desire to escape her dead-end town and her mundane life. She dreams of owning a fast car as a means of leaving her troubles behind and embarking on a new journey. The fast car represents freedom, opportunity, and the chance to break free from the limitations imposed on her.
Throughout the song, Chapman weaves a narrative that highlights the harsh realities and challenges faced by the protagonist. She yearns for a different life, away from poverty, hardship, and unfulfilled dreams. The lyrics reflect the longing for something better and the willingness to take risks to achieve it.
As the song progresses, the narrator's dreams become entangled with a romantic relationship. She meets someone who also seeks to escape their circumstances, and together they hope to build a better life. However, despite their initial optimism, the relationship becomes strained, and the narrator realizes that the other person's promises may be empty. This realization forces her to confront the harsh truth that simply escaping her current situation may not solve all her problems.
"Fast Car" ultimately conveys a sense of bittersweet reality. It portrays the struggles faced by individuals living in poverty and the challenges of breaking free from such circumstances. While the fast car represents the hope of a better life, it also serves as a reminder that true happiness and fulfillment require more than just physical escape.
The song's lyrics are powerful and evocative, addressing themes of socioeconomic inequality, the yearning for a better future, and the complexities of human relationships. Tracy Chapman's soulful delivery and the song's stripped-down, acoustic sound contribute to its emotional impact, making "Fast Car" a timeless anthem that resonates with listeners on a personal and universal level.
She doesn't dream of owning a fast car. She's singing about her boyfriend who has a fast car, and as she tries to work their way out of poverty, he loses jobs and drives around late at night with his friends, not helping at all, and she watches her dream of a better life slowly get further and further away.
Thanks for both explaining so well the meaning of this song ❤
Thank you for capturing this so beautifully 😊
What can I say, but Oh my God Tracy….Thank You!! Love from Utah ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I was born and raise in another country and not having a clue what she was singing about
I'm now living in the States.
I'm so fortunate to be able to understand what she sings about
¡Bravo!
OH tHOMAS! I wish you could understand. When you grow up so far DOWN, so much pain and heartache. All you can see as a little one is being in a fast car (life going 100 miles an hour), your father breaking your little heart and you see nothing and no way out, nowhere to go. But when you are strong and look up, you can capture what you feel in the music. She held on to it so tightly. FOR YEARS. Many like me identified with what she was saying. No one, NO ONE heard her until someone else in another culture identified with her plight. Now, just like from the beginning of time, in real time she is heard. Can you understand where I'm coming from? You have to have been there, lived those words she transformed, to hear her plight. What a great poet, musician, and artist. AMEN. (PS) Thomas, welcome to the USA. So glad you are here.
I've loved this song since it was released in the late 80s. More recently, I've studied trauma and adverse childhood conditions, and I can say this song so poignantly captures the desperate plight of so many souls. Look at the way that the song seems to meander in the first half in the same locked pattern - like the way people are locked into the patterns of their lives. This musical repetition seems to go on longer than is usually expected in a song: when we think it ought to break into a chorus, it returns to "You got a fast car..." and holds the same pattern. It builds a tension which makes the break, when it comes, more powerful. The chorus "I remember we were driving..." is that emotional outpour, not quite a dam burst, but a surge of desperate hope fueled by one single moment in time where everything felt right, or right enough, in which she glimpsed a fleeting vision of how life could and should be, where she felt she belonged and could be someone. "Be someone, be someone," echoes the desperation of those whose thwarted ambitions are inextricably bound in self-defeating patterns and trauma. And then the musical surge is lost and, true to the nature of emotional dissociation, we go back again to the repetition of "You got a fast car..." In writing the song, Tracy was surely too young to have technical knowledge of things like trauma and dissociation - and yet it's there - she knew it introspectively, and captured it instinctively as an artist in the lyrics and how they are woven with the music. The song doesn't flinch in honestly portraying that such positive dreams aren't enough for so many people who hold on to the vision for a while, as reality continues to fail to meet it, and it becomes less real to them, until that one inspiring memory of feeling a sense of belonging loses its power as emotional fuel for the future, and comes to be just a memory of a moment in one's past, though a memory still worth cherishing. The song has been beautifully breaking my heart for 35 years.
Wow, your thoughts and opinions are so poingnant ! Bravo to you..👍💖
Absolutely amazing🔥
Amazing take
Well said
What a fantastic comment, completely agree 👍
Just pure raw talent. This song is all about dreams. Without dreams we die. The only way to make it in life is to dream big and never let anyone tell you that you cant make it. Believe in you always, Always.
Word.👊
Beautiful
Believe in You, Always! I’m old now, but doubt and uncertainty never got me what I needed. Follow your dreams, you may find out that your dreams lead to something unexpected, but even better than you imagined.
Not only is this a beautiful song. But the lyrics are so impactful. I’ve been listening since it was released and it has the same impact on me even now. Genius at work
Its a song and when you hear it its never the shame ever
❤I love this song!
35 year old song. Gives me chills hearing it again. Love it!!!
one of the best songs ever written. It grabs hold of your soul and takes you for a ride. Absolutely beautiful. I never get tired of heard this, any time, any where.
Yes James
The best
Concordo com você meu amigo James essa fera tracys quê canta demais e com uma simplicidade com sua guitarra..por onde quer quê vá trás sempre no rosto um sorriso tão cativante e meiguice no olhar é coisa de louco muito linda como às músicas 🎶 🎶 🎶 quê éla interpreta..meus parabéns pôr ter tanto gosto como éu ok..então quê Deus te abençoe sempre desta sua nova amiga Estrela da Conceição beijos 👄 💋 🎵 🔥🎶🎶🎵🎵💘🎼🎼💘👍👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
I think it was the N.Y. Times that did a hit piece on Combs for what they claimed was effectively a racist steal of a black woman's signature song. Tracy doesn't think so. Combs explained it was his favorite song growing up and he did it as a tribute to Tracy, nothing more. Some people are just so full of hate that they can never see anything positive in anything. All they see is race and hate.
Snap brother
Thank you Tracy for your talent, your clean voice , your music , it was a pleasure to see you at the 2024 Grammy, you showed that we still have real artists.
I first heard this song as a young boy, I thought it was nice.
As I've grown older, I've also grown to love this song. It's absolutely beautiful
This song is therapeutic for those of us who grew up in an abusive home where mom and dad took pleasure in destroying our soul
😢yup
And still do...💔
Keep on driving.
Left it all in the rear view window....😞
I agree with Frank Bruno of the New York Times (in his opinion article of this week): this song is perfect. Ms. Chapman’s voice is clear, ever so poignant, and agelessly beautiful; her inner and her outer beauty is timeless, everlasting; her eyes both (1) invite us to her soul; and (2) drill into ours with ruthless, but loving precision. Like so many others who commented, I have loved this song since she first gave it to us and it never ever loses its luster. I first heard Fast Car when I was 27; now, at 61, it is still one of my very few “go to” songs for comfort, solace, and inspiration. Thank you for sharing this precious gem, Ms. Chapman!
I agree
When music was legendary ❤😊
Woww I love it ❤
Tracy Chapman. Fast Car. Love this song. Hits on such a personal level and im sure many have gone through similar or same circumstances. Tracys voice brings back nostalgia.
There's is something about this song that makes me cry remember I was in a shelter homeless work was hard too find with a girlfriend and a child on the way am glad grateful today a home two grown children I love this song
This is the only version that exists in my world. Tracy is amazing. Long live the 80s.
I love the country version
@@animal1nstinct394Luke Combs is great, but he has never lived in poverty, so his rendition doesn’t resonate with me. I grew up in a dead broke household but had excellent family support, this song has a special place in my heart.
@@trenragerYou couldn't have put it any better. I live in a 3rd world country. I never lacked beyond what I really needed, as my family is middle class. But this original rings deep.
@@trenrageryou do realize that Tracy grew up in a working class neighborhood in Cleveland. How is that any different that Luke combs? Seems like you are assuming instead of gathering the facts
@@animal1nstinct394 Luke Combs version of this is a good song with a good sound, but Tracy's version of it is a great song that touches your soul. There's no comparison between the two
Her voice is insanely good and the song was already recognized for its excellence by her fans before current popularity.
luke combs version is better. he has a better voice
@@animal1nstinct394 o, get a grip and go wash your mouth. Tracy's version sends shivers up everyone's spine. The covers not so much. Nicely tried tho.
Amen.
My mom who passed away loved this song so I did too. Luke combs brought those feelings to the surface again and I'm so thankful for this song. I'm tired of all the comparisons, both songs are amazing. Even tracey doesn't like all the hate revolving around Luke's cover.
He nailed it
She differently deserved this award back in the 80s
I am a SERIOUS Springsteen fan since 1975, BUT I am just saying that....... Whoaaa! Sounds as good as about any version live of "Thunder Road". Girl Power at WORK.
Her voice is velvet. I’m glad Combs covered this and brought it to a new generation who may have forgotten this masterpiece. Real music fans will always go looking for the original, so they get introduced to Chapman
Can you imagine how amazing it must be to write a song, sing it and have generations and generations fall in love with your words, your voice, your story, your feelings, your talent, you! I really wish I had such talent
Beautiful comment. Beautiful dream...I'm sure you're not the only one....
I hope you’ve written a song since this, you’ll never know if you don’t try
My daughter loves this song, too.
Vivo en México y Tracy Chapman ha estado en mí repertorio musical desde niña, tantos maravillosos artistas desde los 50´s.60´s,70´s,80´s, 90´s, algunos ya se han ido y otros simplemente han sido olvidados...sé que hay música nueva, pero espero que se comience a revivir la buena música del pasado y no darla al olvido...son reliquias musicales.
Masterpiece, thank you Tracy Chapman for blessing the world with your talent. You rock at the Grammy what a beautiful surprise. I hope the Grammys remember to always bring back the artists that played a huge role in our childhood.
This is the type of song that as you get older, the more you connect to it.
i find the song has a very different emotional impact at 50 something than it did at 20 something
Muito joia Legal essas músicas internacional anos 80 70 me lembro quando a essência muito bacana quando era criança recordação me leva muito Tenho saudade daquele tempo😁😆😃🤩
If you're watching this in 2021, I love you and you're not alone.
❤❤❤❤❤😭
oh yeah im fuckin alone trust me
Wow ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Im alone but not lonely
🥰🥰🥰🥰
THE BEST! Emotion, delivery and lyric.....god, I cry a good cry everytime I hear it. Beautiful
I likr this song.
It reminds me of my daughter who is at that point in her life that she makes some important decisions - stay and be tormentef or leave and live!
May God help her to leave and come and live with her dad. I love her a lot❤.
She's my princess!
There is something so achingly, yearningly sad about this song. It sounds like the opposite of having your whole life ahead of you. Like it’s already too late and you’re almost at the finish line, without having to truly live at all.
Definitely one of the saddest songs for me, from the melody, the lyrics, even Tracy’s beautiful tone.
Its beautiul song dummy
Same
Loser
😭😭 I have to keep reminding myself it's not autobiographical
"I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere" are such sad lyrics. At the beginning she has hopes that life can get better, and plans for how they can accomplish that. Now all her hopes are dashed. 😞
Being 59 years old- I'm pretty sure I'll be in the grave before this song ever will. It's simple, it's sad, it's true and it can be played on the largest stage with only a guitar and Tracy's splendid voice. I think we all had a 'Fast Car' in our live.
This made me tear up. Yes it’s true.
you not gonna die anytime soon papa you still got 60 more to go
"You ain't gonna go that soon dear brother Thomas. I PRAY for a long wholesome life for you and loads & loads of LOVE, JOY, PEACE & PROSPERITY always! GOD BLESS you always!" 🤗❤️🙏🏼🙌🏼
Correct thomas. My "fast car" moment is coming soon
May the Lord guide me
@@hectorlineusesquivel3648 reading your comment as I am watching this at the bus stop bcuz this song popped in my head, you and me both🔥🙏🔥
I love this song and ALWAYS love Tracy singing it no matter who sings it today 😊
She's a poet and a beautiful soul
I have one of two involuntary reactions when I hear this song. Either I gently weep OR, I crank the volume up to a “10” and belt the song at the top of my lungs. 35 years and 1,000 plays later, this song still deeply touches my soul. 🤍
me to Ava doing right now
Every. Time.
This is one of those songs that forces you to feel. You can’t ignore the poignancy of the words. Especially because so many kids have lived this exact story. It absolutely does break your heart when you think that despite what this child is experiencing, she still has dreams. Big, ridiculous dreams that may never come true. And yet, you find yourself almost in tears praying that she makes it. Such an amazing song. I remember the first time I heard it. I went to the record store the next day and bought it. So many, many years later, with all the pain and trauma that life throws at you, it really lands with more impact because it’s so damned real.
We didn’t have a word back then. We do now. Parentification. The worst thing short of molestation a parent to do to their child.
@ava8614 Yasssss girl! How about singing at the top of your lungs WHILE CRYING! 😄😭😄😭
My mom passed away when I was 5 years old. This was her favorite song, and one of the only ways I truly feel connected to her. Chills every time
you story, listening to Tracy raised a tear
You keep driving forward. 1 step at a time. Don't worry how long it takes to get there...you'll get there when YOU'RE supposed to get there.
Sorry for you loss.
Linda demais
❤️❤️❤️
i too have one for my dead brother ( even 2) both japanese i don't know why but i feel they are better at make feel the feeling before and after a lost...
So glad Luke covered this and she is getting more recognition by a new generation. This touched my soul when first released.
I really need a fast car now!!!😢😢 just buried my dad Sunday 😢😢🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
It’s been 2 months. I hope you are doing ok. I am sorry for your loss. I hope the memories keep you going. Or maybe this song can help. 🙏
Remember. As long as your 🩸 flow and maybe children 🩸 flow. Part of him is still around
Your Dad is still with you inside you. You will hear his voice in your thoughts. Find yourself acting like him. Doing something the way he did it. Beyond the grief you will find him still with you.
sorry for your loss 🎀
The lyrics say “I got no plans, I ain’t going nowhere” and you can feel the weight of that decision: to accept that you are and will forever be trapped living a life without happiness. I respect you, Tracy. Thank you for writing this song
I know this this song evercince it came out,but I never paid real attention to it , never listend to the entire song and listening to the lyrics. I rediscovered it on TH-cam about 3 weeks ago, I listen every day since.
How beautiful
Sorry, but i desagree. If you read the complete song, i think that lyric means that she got what she want (got a job pays all the bills, children...), but her boyfriend didnt. So, she doesnt want to go anywhere, because she got what she was finding; Then, breaks with the boyfriend and tells hin to take a car and go away, and find his own life.
The entire album is a masterpiece
@@gonzalolopezdelerena5859 I agree, I don't think she is saying she is forever trapped in a life without happiness, but that her hopes and dreams to build something better with her man (now the father to her children) are now gone, and she continues to do the responsible thing, as a mother and provider, and is telling her man to get it together or get out, which I think is her accepting her situation. While not completely hopeless, it shows the struggle to escape the cycles of our parents, our situation. Not a happy ending, but at the same time she is not giving up to a life of unhappiness, while at the same time she realizes as a mother, and older, those youthful dreams are over, but she is still working on providing for her kids. So while splitting hairs a bit, it is definitely not a "happy ending", and it is sad her man doesn't have his stuff together for his family, and dreams of something much bigger/better have faded.
This song was my anthem of hope when I was 14! Growing up in addiction, poverty, and a broken home I wasn’t suppose to make it.....but here I am! I haven’t heard the song in years but It came on the radio this morning taking my husband to work and I just broke down! What a whirlwind of emotions! Thank you Tracy for this beautiful song that forever changed a lost broken little boy that is now a grown very successful blessed man!
I’ve always loved Tracy chapman. Her voice is so smooth and full of emotion. ❤
Good Lord, she sounds better now than ever! I saw her in Cleveland when the song was first released. Could not be happier for her and Luke did right giving her the spotlight.
She is truly gifted. In high school when I heard it, I loved the melody and guitar. Not until now do I hear the heart breaking lyrics. She never over sings either.
❤️❤️
Yeah. You have to live decades before it really sinks in how awfully crushing this song is.
Lindaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
same!
I saw Tracy Chapman do this song live in Tokyo in 1988, when she opened for the Human Rights Now! tour headlined by Sting, Phil Collins, Bruce Springsteen and Youssou N'Dour. But she was the highlight for me of the entire evening. Just like this video, she had corn rows, jeans, a t-shirt and a guitar. There was no back-up band. I got goosebumps. She is still the same, incredible, authentic human, thank God. It's on my bucket list to meet you in person and hug you someday Tracy!
Wow, that sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing.
It is called dreadlocks
locs not cornrows but everything else it true 🤙🏽
They are called dreadlocks not cornrows but your story is sweet thanks for sharing would love to hug her too someday God willing of cause
Didn't realize this song was that old. Thought it was early 90s
No cell phones. Everyone living in the moment. I miss those days.
Thank you for the beautiful music Tracy❤
One of the rare moments when the live performance is better than the actual recording
everywhere i go i see this guy's face
There are a lot of singer story tellers, but Tracy Chapman has to be one of the BEST in my opinion.
She lived it
beautiful song awesome singer Tracy chapman jaja thankyou heart & soul my dear lovely friend namaste from England bravooo xd muah woah xxxxxxxx
All absolutely wonderful !
Beautiful song. Reminds me of my long faded youth. I miss being filled with hope. 🥺
I understand you perfectly. Life tramples you down. Hope is like this song, mixed with sadness and longing that it didn’t turn out quite the way you wanted.
Stay true to hope and faith.
I hear you almost 50 and nothing seems new fresh or exciting anymore. Only things that remain interesting are the materialistic luxuries and not people
Oh, this comment hit hard.
Too bad you wasted your life away.
She's beautiful in every possible way, lyricist, musician, woman
Spent my first ever wage packet to buy this as my first ever vinyl in 1989
ja...ich au ❤
i thought she was a dude 💀
@@swanthechosenone3975 Then you need to go to an optician
Tracy is great, she grabs our Soul’s!
I am 6 years younger than her I remember that song growing up got me through a lot of hard times know I am a Fisherman u own his own boats with everything paid for thanks Tracy❤
Most people don't realize this song goes deep into the struggles to grow, make a better living, how delusions and addiction can damage life, the fast car is that analogy to shortcuts and false expectations that life will be easier somehow.
Those who had a hard upbringing or parents with alcohol abuse will get it.
definitely hits home in the same way for me brother ✊
the sadness
Absolutely ... its deep
So true ❤
The protagonist found joy riding with her boyfriend in the fast car. Let her enjoy her few hours in peace.