Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (Lyrics)
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2023
- Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
You got a fast car
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(Lyrics):
[Verse 1]
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me, myself, I got nothing to prove
[Verse 2]
You got a fast car
I got a plan to get us outta here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
Finally see what it means to be living
[Verse 3]
See, my old man's got a problem
He lives with a bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
When mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said, "Somebody's gotta take care of him"
So I quit school and that's what I did
[Refrain]
You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
[Chorus]
So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
[Verse 4]
You got a fast car
We go cruising, entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs
[Chorus]
So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
[Verse 5]
You got a fast car
I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinkin' late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together, you and me'd find it
I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving
[Chorus]
So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car
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Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone
[Refrain]
You got a fast car
Is it fast enough so you can fly away?
You gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
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Who's here after that amazing Grammy performance?????
yes
I don't watch awards shows ever for reasons I won't get into but I heard about her performance so I found it on UA-cam, I love this song and Give Me One Reason is my favorite of Tracy's.
She was fascinating. Best performance of the night!!
🎉 amazing duet!
I loved that a young country kid listening in his dad's car fell in love this not so country song, and then as an adult country music star reaches across the aisle and says let's sing this. While the song will always stand on its own merit as a powerful and moving life story, I like how this has brought diverse musical worlds and experiences together--at least for this one night. Hoping this is the beginning of more bridging divides.
Glad to see a new generation appreciating Tracy Chapman she is a legend and deserves her flowers. She’s a great artist ❤❤
A true legend ♥️
Absolutely one of the best songs ever written❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
Yes and a poet this song saved my life
It's a boy but ok
Actually Tracy Chapman is a girl, but ok
I've loved this song since it was released. 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 first half of the song seems to linger in the same locked pattern - like locked-in patterns of emotional lives. This musical repetition goes on longer than expected: when we think it ought to break into a chorus, it returns to "You got a fast car..." and holds the pattern - building 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 return to our pattern - "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're woven with the music. The song doesn't flinch in honestly portraying that positive dreams aren't enough for so many people, individuals who hold on to their vision for a while, as reality continues to fail to meet it, and as it becomes less real to them, until that one inspiring memory of deeply-felt belonging loses its power as emotional fuel for the future, and dwindles to 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.
Lol 2:54
😂🎉😢😮😅😊 4:43
I love your interpretation of this song. It's right on
Precisely… someone who hears songs like I do!! 👏🏽👏🏽
What in the hell, do your write for Rolling Stone???
Thank you Luke for bringing a classic back to life. He covered it cause it was his his favorite song. Tracey’s version is untouchable.
@@paul-gs4be”you” suck though
Amen to that
@@paul-gs4beyeap. Only thankful that his trash version pushed me to listen to the real one
@@paul-gs4be no it doesn't, your clueless kid, luke did this song justice, stop assuming things kid
@@benjaminholliday2453 wrong clueless kid, luke did a great cover, and its not "trash", your clueless
To those struggling on a daily basis,this is our anthem
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)
YESSSS!!!! I genuinely didn't wanna make it past 18.... I didn't wanna be an adult..... but here I am, 24 years old, four kids (2 mine, and my 2 extras 🥹🩶) and I'm starting my own store in a brand new town, and I don't think I've ever been happier..... it truly sucks being a kid, it really fkn does, I wasn't supposed to make it to 16 even (TW! SS attempt) my first attempt was 12/17/15 and, every year I think about just how close I was to losing EVERYTHING I hold dear to my heart.
I could be someone😢
True
True
"leave tonight or live and die this way" is such a deep and powerful lyric. and it just gets more heartbreaking and more amazing to hear the older you get. it resonates so deeply. the entire song is. like i was just rooting for them to make a break for it and make it through life.
This is a song about having dreams but ending up stuck with no drive. Pun intended. I was 17 when this song came out and i didn't truly understand it. Now im 53 and it rings very true. This song is a lyrical masterpiece.
for me this is also a song about generational poverty and addiction. amazing how each listener has different interpretations of this song depending on how it resonates with them. a testament to tracy's talent and soul. ❤
For me it's about repeating the cycle while trying to get out of it. Her dad drank and she had to take care of him and her mama wanted more from life and is basically living the same life as her mother, her husband sees more of his friends at the bar then his own kids. 😢
@ashleynrota89 agreed 👍🏼
Ditto.
Anyone in 2024
please wake me up in the dream call my mom Rebecca juco and ALJON juco Lord Nicole juco I love you
Me🇨🇷🇨🇷
Definitely
I'm here💯
hey
Whose still listening to this beautiful piece in 2024😊😊😊
me deffo xx
Yes
Me
Me
Kc in pa
This is real life. Not the internet, not fake influencers with their filters and pretend life. People are struggling- emotionally, mentally, financially.
Thank you for this
Absolutely ❤
YESSSS! THIS IS THE COMMENT RIGHT HERE💯🙌🏿
Such kind thoughts, hopefully many others are putting it out in the universe ❤❤❤thank you ❤️
Awesome song. The "Ah-I" added another layer to the feel. I never realized until I saw all of the lyrics that she is basically giving an ultimatum to the other person at the end, telling them to either get responsible or get gone.
I always looked at it as she wanted a better life like her Mom but cause of the alcohol got stuck with her Dad.
@edwardmunoz7853 we tend to marry a version of our parents. Seems like she did. Circle of life.
I was going through a separation and divorce when this came out after my wife left with our 2 year old daughter. A bleak, sad life. The song hit home. Going back to Jesus broke the cycle. New wife, full life, even a greater relationship with my grown daughter (and older son) as well as 2 more children. Break the cycle
Good for you, man! Happy to hear that! ❤
This song breaks my heart so much. It's about having dreams and disappointment.
You understand.
I listened to this song in highschool and over 20 years later I still thinks it's one of the best songs ever written. It's pretty funny being a white boy singing about being a checkout girl but Tracy's lyrics are relatable to the financial struggles of life and are timeless.
Nobody sings fast car like Tracy! Awesome duet at the Grammy Awards.
I speak Spanish, live in Mexico, but liked this song and bought the LP when I was younger as i could relate to the lyrics, which back then i was able to understand at maybe 50%. Great Tracy!
I've loved this song since it 1st came out. (I think it was 1988) It hits just as hard now as it did back then. I miss this kind of music, it make u feel like the artist is just singing from experience. I understand why and share Luke Comb's love of this song, and thanks to him, people are reminded of why our hearts were moved.
As a boy, I remember hearing this song on the radio in my Nan’s 1990s maroon Plymouth Acclaim. We were picking up my older cousin from middle school (He’s married and had a baby now) I totally forgot this song existed until the recent cover by Luke Combs started playing on the radio. I love his version and I’m glad it brought me back to that nice memory
Well said. 😥😊
Wish I’d experienced this time!
I was born in 98’ and I’m so happy that I’m the last generation that grew up without smartphones,insta,UA-cam list goes on!
Promoting domestic violence, a solution should not be found?
I had a feeling I could be someone. I used to feel this way.
This song will never get old. It always resonates.
Like this song relates how much people are living this same way. Tracy Chapman very good singer, pour out her heart in this song.
I'm 64 and when this song came out, I could relate but..things would get better. Had ups, but downs and now..I'm 64...Now I am this song.
Since the 1980s this song has spurred me onward "leave tonight, or live and die this way"
Mmm sage words ❤
Bro Luke Combs version is alright but this version!🔥
This version is sublime and just beautiful. Perfection.
This isn’t a version, this is it.
@@corey6160so true
This IS the OG
Looking at some reels that had this song in it. My husband recognized this song. He said do me a fav, play this song for me. I said of course. 😊
It is a sad song, but a hopeful one. She struggled, and keeps struggling, but she got out. Her future is, if not bright, then at least clear and light. She don’t need that guy and his fast car anymore, because she is in a place where she is happy, okay, and she can keep on improving herself, her life, her kids life, and all of their future.
So it is sad, but more in a bittersweet way. And I love the song for that.
Yes!!!!!
Tracy Chapman’s voice is very beautiful and unique and nobody will ever be able to outdo her on this masterpiece. But credit where credit is due, Luke Combs did a gorgeous cover on this by keeping it very traditional. I think he honored this song and Tracy very well in his cover. I like both versions very much, and applause to both singers for both for an amazing job.
I agree. Luke Combs honored this song and did it justice. I love his cover but there’s nothing like the original. Tracy Chapman is iconic
Fast Car is a beautifully poignant song that captures the essence of hope and longing with an acoustic simplicity that is both powerful and evocative. Tracy Chapman's soulful voice and heartfelt delivery bring to life a narrative of struggle and aspiration, making it a deeply relatable and moving experience. The song's lyrics paint a vivid picture of the pursuit of a better life, and its melancholic yet hopeful tone resonates with listeners on a profound level. "Fast Car" is a timeless classic that showcases Chapman's extraordinary ability to convey deep emotion and tell compelling stories through her music.
Too bad Luke botched it at the end! This version is much better.
We keep on fighting until our lucky day. Break the cycle of POVERTY. We all should belong. I'll get that fast car 1 day, I just hope I don't fly away too soon🕊️
Me, I’m here. Such a great moment to see Tracy Chapman again. Hearing this makes me want to cry everything about it is so authentic. But it brings back the best days of my life - this song was sooooo great and still is!
Listening in 2024. I never really understood this song till tonight
Words CANNOT DESCRIBE HOW MUCH THIS SONG MEANS TO ME 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Nothing compares to the original track *Tracy is a legend!*
I totally agree but glad Luke combs brought it back to the charts ♥️
I have always loved Tracy Chapman since the 90’sand love love this song and her version
The lyrics are so deep!
First song I heard after on my car after my Dad passed. Was on the way to pick up my 5 year sister at her last day of 1st grade
Tracy Chapman is probably the most underrated musician ever. I prefer her live versions of everything she does
Heartbreak poetry
Tracy chapman ...... One of my favourite singer ever
Nobody Could Ever Do It Better.
What a great finally recognized song. Only Tracy Chapman can deliver the greatest of this song!
I’ve listened to this song since the day I was born. I remember when my mom could drive and she’d play this song all the time on the radio. It’s still one of her favorites, and by proxy, also one of mine.
Her voice still amazes me and gives me the chills. Loveeee this song so much
Why can't there be any good music like this in today's top-40 anymore??
industry plants mostly
Nah Tracy Chapman is just a amazing singer honestly like I would die for Tracy
This has always been a favorite of mine; it has always made me think about the despair some people have. Thank you Tracy for this song.
💝💝
Hope In dispair
I remember my mother crying to this when. My sister died in 1991 and she never was the same
After then the bottle got her im thinking about both as its a shity day idk why i found this we don't get ti pick the life we giving but i am thankful i have it
I'm so sorry..
This song is still EVERYTHING‼️
Just had to google the lyrics. When it came out so long ago, i was only hearing part of the lyrics due to the fast tempo. It is one of the greatest songs ever written.
Same, I’m 45 and remember this song when it was new. Never really paid it any attention….listened to the lyrics, amazing song.
I had to reconnect to this amazing song! Timeless!
❤
The original and the best. Authentic. Luke Combs is a great country twang cover but Chapmans voice just sounds real and personal to this song. Luke Combs sounds like a really good stage cover for a talent show or something. Can't beat the OG.
I don't expect one artist's rendition to be the same as anyone else's version. Thats why they call them artists. Tracy is best but Luke has a different level of feeling to his voice that is also interesting and moving.
💯
Tracy is a legend
Thanks to Tracy and namesake Luke, for a wonderful creation and recreation!
This song is Beautiful 100,000,000%❤️
I know
Me myself got nothing to prove ❤
The song is deeper than what you hear..
Woke up with it on my mind, and trying to figure out why. Certainly what you've said.
The BEST version
This is a great song, happy to see it get recognition once again.
This song is an anthem for Gen X. Damn, those times were tough. Just couldn’t get ahead. This song says it all.
I feel like it’s also generation Y anthem as well, and that’s coming from a millennial
@@lizzyleverone7253as a millennial who literally quit school to care for my dad, totally agree
@@jaehenlee7633 Thank you I glad you agree
"Damn those times were tough" As opposed to now, with the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation and the shitty economy? 😂
@@AscendingGoogle123at least they could afford housing lol
For real one of the most beautiful songs in the last 20 years
I can feel every word
She released it 35 years ago. It makes me cry.
She is so humble, so gracious. Beautiful song, beautiful human.
She has been so underrated throughout her career!
We are here to make her noticed ❤
No one makes these kind of songs anymore 😢
They need to cause times are worse than ever with Covid and high azz prices. Folks can't even afford an apartment nowadays
Anybody can sing this song and do it well, but there will always be a special place for the first to do it.
I completely disagree my friend. “Anybody” cannot replicate this. This is a phenomenal piece of writing and recording. Only the experienced musician can do this justice.
I wish we had so many more songs rom Tracey Chapman.
Same here, @lateblossom. Same here! 🥲
She does…Tracy had at least 8 albums. I just found this out myself. And I bought the album that had the fast car on it from iTunes..!
Oh yes, she does , she does!
I’ve been listening to whole new songs of Tracy Chapman on UA-cam with lyrics, her lyrics are always SOUL-TOUCHING.,! Timeless, masterpiece..!❤❤❤
It’s about life,it never gets old.
This song brings so many emotions to the surface man ...
Tracy is so great.
One of a few...
This is the best version ever. Much better than that lousy Grammy performance with that half-yodeling Luke.
I'm an Assamese. This song reminds me of our Parbati Prasad. Also of Suman as I know Bengali.Both tell us of dream,may be shattered but urge us to continue dreaming.
After all of these years still top 3 for me. Amazing.
I love you nima 2024🎉happy birthday ❤
I had a feeling I could be someone.
you should have won 2000000000 Grammys for this song! People who 💯% agree
"You gotta make a decision, leave tonight or live and die this way"
I love both version. I just got chills listening to this
My life is blessed today, but for many years it was a nightmare. It seemed the more I tried to make things better, the more broken they remained. The desire to “run away” thinking it will fix what’s broken (it doesn’t) is profound. 😢
I always loved her music im 35,i just love good music❤😊😊
I like this song ALOT we need more songs from Tracy chapman
My mum played this song all the time when I was a teenager, I miss her so much…RIP MUM, always in my heart, best mum ever🙏🏾❤
Beautiful song, beautiful voice, beautiful person
I love the lyrics it's so basic about people problems and aspirations,love dual at Grammy with Luke combs
THIS SONG HAS :
▶️ SOUND & MUSIC... 🎼🎶
▶️ LYRICS... [ abc ]
AND
▶️ SOUL... 🌈💙🌈
It's WONDERFUL 👍👍👍
This song remind me of the time i randomly jumped in a raggedy car with no money and my off the wagon ex and drove from lower alabama to california. Hung up in ass fuxk kansas, ran outt gas with 0 dollars in utah , snowed in a car during a blizzard ,got stranded on oakland and had to walk lmao ..its one of those how tf miracle stories. 😢❤😅 bitter sweet 😂❤
Tracey does it best!
I had to learn this the hard way. "Me, myself I got nothing to prove."😁😁😁💖💖💖That's where I'm @ now..."finally see what It means to be living."😁😁😁💖💖💖
this is it. dont let luke combs water it down.
Luke Combs sucks. Never heard a song I liked from him. But then again, I don’t like country.
@@gj_116I agree!
@@gj_116agreed
Oldies like Kevin will always find the original better, no matter what.
Just ignore ‘em.
Tracy said she loved his version so...
In the Navy, I found this in my seabag inside a battery-operated player to help ride out hurricane Hugo at Rosey Roads, PR in '89 and had it when stuck for the Kuwait invasion (Desert Shield) in '90. Became my "ride or die" music
I love love love this song. Heard this song when I was in High School and now I'm in love with it all over again........
I was in middle school when this song 🎵 came out. I loved it then & to this day I’ve come to love it even more. They DEFINITELY don’t make music like this anymore.
Never been able to listen to this song without crying
Luke I give you props but how many is still enjoying this classic in 2024
I remember this song
April 2024❤❤❤
I am here with u the best ERA
Love and appreciate how she can sing this song live, without auto-tune. Her voice is not of this world.
I do relate a lot to this music. Sadly when I make it, my Mum died. It hurts till today as she gave all for us and died without experiencing a day without a struggle. We make it somehow. She would be proud of us❤
This song always hits hard
This is it. The OG fast car!!
I am crazy on her voice..what a voice
Loved tracy since my first ever real girlfriend introduced me to her music im 41 now and still love her ❤
Tracy, you are a singing master… love you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the song i listened to beffoore i left my abusive husband in the 90s my daughter fits the description of how he tormented her and you know i loved to ride in my car ....and finally be some one .. some things change but many remain the same...he kept my daughter out of school....and i finally got the courage to escape with 5 kids to a shelter...so ya this song hits me in many places and i will cherish her words forever thank you ...tracie bless you
Classic💖💖💖
I’ve beeen listening to this song for 10 years, and it’ll never get old
This version you just feel it