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.
@24kabuki8 ай бұрын
Luke Coombs cover did just that
@mikemerrill1756 ай бұрын
is that’s what’s happening???
@soficausey99393 ай бұрын
I *just* had this thought and then saw your comment. Huge wave of nostalgia/melancholy washed over me
@cara83023 ай бұрын
@@cara8302Same. Makes you reflect on life.
@albertmaraj3 ай бұрын
Ain’t it fun by Paramore gave me that exact feeling
@dylanbrookes95013 ай бұрын
Here after her 2024 Grammy performance anyone?
@lerinemechouela13863 ай бұрын
Yep.😊
@lettiegrant94472 ай бұрын
You betcha!
@IVant2BAlone2 ай бұрын
Yes but I’ve been a fan since the 90s.
@trekstarsam24942 ай бұрын
❤
@supriyaneteler84252 ай бұрын
Of course
@michaellawlor12672 ай бұрын
She rocked the Grammy’s.
@imcoup3 ай бұрын
She shined like a star.✨💞 It was a beautiful duet.
@elfin12u2 ай бұрын
A1q@@elfin12u
@ilmacardosofroes77262 ай бұрын
Her smile was everything ❤️
@JennyLouLou2 ай бұрын
Tracy grew up in poverty, when she sings you can feel her reaching out to us from those childhood moments. God bless you!
@avatar88503 ай бұрын
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)
@theharshtruthoutthere2 ай бұрын
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.
@gerardquinn66372 ай бұрын
How can someone write a song that breaks your heart and lifts your soul at the same time? Absolute legend.
@aviladauvin2 жыл бұрын
Could just cry memories
@douglasfraser57992 жыл бұрын
Powerful!!
@sevynthdaye28632 жыл бұрын
When they been to places only few are lucky to come back from
@JayDidntDoIt2 жыл бұрын
@@douglasfraser5799 me too
@isoldemuhlenbrock12612 жыл бұрын
@@sevynthdaye2863 A
@brunogulamo25532 жыл бұрын
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
@jesusbasketball87407 ай бұрын
♥♥♥
@toastiepostie37613 ай бұрын
beautifully stated.
@pamorama3 ай бұрын
I love this song, it goes down deep, full of love, faith and hope😢❤❤❤❤❤❤ Gloria of Tampa FL
@gloriamcnair67123 ай бұрын
@@pamoramaYea, I might have to plagiarize that in a poem. 🤣
@DreiSkins1013 ай бұрын
Aloha. You forgot songs that will make you cry!
@adamyoung4803 ай бұрын
35 yrs after the original release she takes the 2023 CMA Song of the Year award! BRAVO TRACY! X
@eddymclain12916 ай бұрын
Ditto!
@geralddutcher36625 ай бұрын
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.
@agolzad5 ай бұрын
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
@eddymclain12915 ай бұрын
Kind of a slap in the face that it took this long... But good that it happened nonetheless.
@justinjones16443 ай бұрын
Finally the world catches up with Tracy Chapman's greatness
@nancyshell28553 ай бұрын
No fancy light, props dancing, costume..just pure singing..pure Gold.
@susanlucas11253 ай бұрын
Yes! True artistry.
@charlottecolon67043 ай бұрын
Beautiful voices aren't enchanced with clothes or other things. Guitar & Beautiful voice......timeless
@jerilynndougherty51023 ай бұрын
And depth of soul
@shelbyclark46202 ай бұрын
, no light show, no costumes, dancing . just Real deal
@leerobbins34672 ай бұрын
yep - "nothing to prove" as the lyrics state
@anitadualeh57082 ай бұрын
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.....
@aleemallaham9158 Жыл бұрын
Hang in there buddy ❤
@dettol3647 Жыл бұрын
@@dettol3647 guess he needed a different AA
@allmall1985 Жыл бұрын
God bless you ❤
@MM.PhD. Жыл бұрын
Sir, days will soon get better.
@kenne5282 Жыл бұрын
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!
@fmed2412 Жыл бұрын
This song is timeless ❤❤thank you Tracy !who’s listening in 2024
@suzannefrancis12423 ай бұрын
Yup! Goosebumps
@amankaur99743 ай бұрын
hugs
@fabricerwakabishya43963 ай бұрын
She just came back for another rendition with Luke Combs at the Grammys!
@NationFirstGreenville223 ай бұрын
Yes❤
@PrincessWowNetwork3 ай бұрын
Absolutely everyone after that grammy's performance, its No2 on iTunes one day later! Strike that, No 1 !
@anethers75453 ай бұрын
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.
@pamorama3 ай бұрын
Same here! Bad marriage.. fast car was my song.. it gave me hope.. got out and my life changed!
@donnamcardle89283 ай бұрын
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.
@ladydove58952 ай бұрын
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.
@jake531ful2 ай бұрын
Ok @pamorama now you got me 😢 ❤❤❤❤😊
@MoGeeinternationalsince19692 ай бұрын
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 ❤❤
@erastusndakize47652 ай бұрын
This is crazy how she basically wrote a movie in lyrical form. 😮
@darrenwoolston71264 ай бұрын
I never thought of it like that but now that you mentioned it,I totally agree
@robmiller93122 күн бұрын
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.
@chr9708 ай бұрын
I’m crying
@steviemack69695 ай бұрын
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.
@bentk11205 ай бұрын
@@bentk1120 is it on KZhead
@chr9705 ай бұрын
@@bentk1120 got it. Watched it, amazing talent, audience knew how to appreciate and enjoy.
@chr9705 ай бұрын
one of the best songs written - EVER
@christinaliening82205 ай бұрын
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
@maren85972 жыл бұрын
Verdade eu me sinto tão leve
@mabeanselmo3263 Жыл бұрын
Me has borrado.e sido llo lo siento te agradecería que vol vieras .a restablecer todo.90...
@jesuspinillaloriente582 Жыл бұрын
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
@AbbyNormal777 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely agree
@tiarawilson3067 Жыл бұрын
Perfect description of this song and the lyrics.
@rjk8008 Жыл бұрын
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.
@scootertramp43552 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@reemahabdulfattah56742 ай бұрын
✨️❤🙏
@ceciliamelgar54812 ай бұрын
Thats an awesome , inspiring story fe keep them memorable times close by fr
@paco31322 ай бұрын
Awesome buddy !!!
@stevejacobs83752 ай бұрын
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.
@texlad042 ай бұрын
There is not a sole on earth, nor will ever be, that can cover this song better than the original. No way no how.
@rwachtell5 ай бұрын
Exactly
@dannygregory99173 ай бұрын
Luke Combs covered it and sang it with her at the Grammys!
@christymcdaniel39063 ай бұрын
I enjoy Luke Combs’ version, but I always have to listen to hers after
@slenky26403 ай бұрын
It is definitely her song no matter who sings it
@TubE-tr8yi3 ай бұрын
I hope not, but you never know. She is crazy talented and sings from the soul.
@stevenknudsen79023 ай бұрын
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
@nicklockhart17042 жыл бұрын
I agree black lives matter
@bondock4795 Жыл бұрын
way more than a million hearts bro
@pulau6481 Жыл бұрын
. K Mk K0pplpo Om . Mom. K
@fagon5260 Жыл бұрын
It’s billions heart bro 😎
@tintuvarghese1781 Жыл бұрын
God bless your pure heart Brother, Carry on.
@shawnbeasom2542 Жыл бұрын
Pure legend. One of the best songs ever written. Period.
@aaronreed550210 ай бұрын
Yes- one of the best songs written by a human being❤love you Tracy Chapman.
@jmk253010 ай бұрын
Couldn't agree more!
@Whom-hi8cx9 ай бұрын
100% agree
@baurndo19829 ай бұрын
Yes she is wicked to my sonxxxx
@debbiephilips29059 ай бұрын
Agree.
@MegaWritergurl8 ай бұрын
The live version sounds exactly the same as the recorded version what a legend
@funnelnutz32273 ай бұрын
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.
@user-ig6zr4bp8k3 ай бұрын
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
@TubE-tr8yi3 ай бұрын
This is the most timeless and beautifully written song of all time. This rings deep into your soul.
@carolynharmon10782 ай бұрын
Me too. i feel like ive known this song for 30 years and i havent even been alive that long.
@lovendor2 ай бұрын
This song still feels fresher than ever in 2023... Absolutely timeless 😊❤
@Aang_L._Jackson9 ай бұрын
Amen
@user-yk5ec1rw3v9 ай бұрын
God Bless Tracy Chapman 🙏
@darin57948 ай бұрын
💯
@Johnjones-vx1wy8 ай бұрын
Agree. It’s hits harder though as the years go by. At 68 the emotions are different than they were at 33.
@Pelican50778 ай бұрын
@@Pelican5077I totally agree, i m 46, feel the same, of course not the same impact, but the way you discribe
@ganeshgames4018 ай бұрын
This type of song makes an artist immortal.
@Youngescapeplanlife3 жыл бұрын
Best comment I ever had the pleasure of reading
@LIMONENSA3 жыл бұрын
an artist
@deanonewton87043 жыл бұрын
@@deanonewton8704 I'm sorry about that.
@Youngescapeplanlife3 жыл бұрын
Hemajl molla I’m
@deanonewton87043 жыл бұрын
@@deanonewton8704 😂😁😂
@Youngescapeplanlife3 жыл бұрын
"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.
@rebeccareiter74083 ай бұрын
I will leave on my bicycle! :)
@natasiaroderick2 ай бұрын
I will leave on foot tonight, since I don’t have a bicycle nor a car.😂
@maud.142 ай бұрын
Knocked me flat when this first came out in 1988, still does in 2024. Timeless, Haunting Classic 😊
@susanwalters79373 ай бұрын
Haunting, yes
@stevenknudsen79023 ай бұрын
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!
@parkmccann787811 ай бұрын
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.
@missjo203611 ай бұрын
@@missjo2036 no disrespect to any of these artists (80s is probably my favourite era of music , ) but was it invented back then?
@codythelavabucket267811 ай бұрын
Cap if you ask me it’s pretty mid
@christrinidad336011 ай бұрын
@@christrinidad3360nah its cap.
@CarWizard10 ай бұрын
@@CarWizard random seeing the Wizard in the comments of a KZhead suggested music rabbit hole but I'm not disappointed
@michaelheckman347410 ай бұрын
One of the greatest songs ever written.
@discgolfinrude3 жыл бұрын
You got that right.
@rogerbyington56403 жыл бұрын
I totally agree!
@vw16493 жыл бұрын
I liked when she smiled at .the beginning of the song, because she knew the crowd is gonna like this one
@rogerbyington56403 жыл бұрын
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.
@eccentra893 жыл бұрын
@@rogerbyington5640 0000000000000000000horas con
@juancar0433 жыл бұрын
I was 14 when this song came out ...I'm 51 now , she still sounds bad ass !
@7013lore4 ай бұрын
Totally agree. This song is like wine. It's even better and more heart wrenching now.
@k9element3 ай бұрын
She a true talent
@dannygregory99173 ай бұрын
Yep! I’m 60 now, I loved this song when it first came out ! I loved it then…and I love it now! 💕
@barbarapowell67462 ай бұрын
Really??
@ambitiousbelmondo92192 ай бұрын
Songs like this can only be written by an artist not an entertainer
@abrahamuyanna5743 ай бұрын
I am 58 years old. This is one of the most impactful songs I've ever heard, back in the day.
@diannerobb99007 ай бұрын
Still hits deep when I hear it now
@PurpleIrishSweater5 ай бұрын
58 years sir what gets you
@jareds22534 ай бұрын
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
@jareds22534 ай бұрын
Back at you.
@Walmers273 ай бұрын
Me too
@davidsaurers8193 ай бұрын
The only difference between this version and the latest Comb’s release is Tracy’s sends shivers up your spine.
@def379710 ай бұрын
And tears down your face
@MJ-gw2zu5 ай бұрын
I love both versions but yeah, agree! Tracy’s version is just powerful.
@ChristianTulsaPeru5 ай бұрын
You are so right!!!
@kathrynlouyse15045 ай бұрын
She slowed it down just enough to make me lock myself in the bathroom
@dullboy23215 ай бұрын
And so does Luke. They are both incredible
@CGagnon55 ай бұрын
Pure, raw talent. Just her amazing voice, and a guitar. No filters, no flashing lights, dancers or anything. Just Tracy Chapman singing so beautifully.
@VJAllison19743 ай бұрын
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.
@5500billy5 ай бұрын
This song has undoubtedly withstood the test of time. It has perhaps reached a point where we can agree that it is immortal
@nhlanhlanene48473 жыл бұрын
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.
@Luci-rv1hl3 жыл бұрын
Could not agree more. 😫
@KeyKeyJournals3 жыл бұрын
Super agree👍👍👍
@moniquetheunique81913 жыл бұрын
Ooh yeah
@sampuatisamuel97853 жыл бұрын
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.
@JohnWadeLongJr2 жыл бұрын
Credit to the audience for not singing along and allowing us to hear her beautiful voice.
@luke63503 жыл бұрын
I know right, it was a credit to her that big audience was almost silent during this
@hannathompson79983 жыл бұрын
All this time I thought she's a he O.O
@japperez41223 жыл бұрын
Awesome
@rustydines33553 жыл бұрын
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.
@kalbad3 жыл бұрын
Her beautiful voice? You mean *his* beautiful voice! That is a man!
@theimaginarygallery59353 жыл бұрын
You can feel and hear all the pain in her voice. I love this song.
@bigsisandlittlesiscarter67463 ай бұрын
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.
@bigredman52233 ай бұрын
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.
@superstuffanimalbrothers10 ай бұрын
You just said everything I feel. ❤
@imacop338 ай бұрын
Just turned 40 this year, and I can say we probably remember hearing this song at the exact same time. 😊 it’s a masterpiece.
@benrichardson28728 ай бұрын
I read the lyrics for the first time today and I agree so much. Those lyrics are sooooo good.
@stephanelarocque778 ай бұрын
4 real 🔥🙏🏽
@israeldavis47718 ай бұрын
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!
@mikelisacarb8 ай бұрын
Her voice is insanely good and the song was already recognized for its excellence by her fans before current popularity.
@kylemorlan75429 ай бұрын
luke combs version is better. he has a better voice
@animal1nstinct3946 ай бұрын
@@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.
@Tayl-top5 ай бұрын
Amen.
@ConGamePro5 ай бұрын
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.
@Idunno-gl1wz5 ай бұрын
He nailed it
@jestice754 ай бұрын
I’d pay big money to see this sung live. Absolute legend!
@TracyV03245 ай бұрын
Hello Tracy, happy thanksgiving!
@HarryJohnson-lq6qm5 ай бұрын
I'll give it a shot if you like! What kinda money are we talking about? Joking, of course 😏
@halabala19893 ай бұрын
She just performed the Grammys with Luke Combs❤
@jasminewhite14853 ай бұрын
I remember hearing this song on the radio as a kid in the 90's on our trips to visit my grandparents. I've always loved this song and have learned to understand and appreciate the emotion behind it more and more as time has passed. So happy for the newfound recognition Tracy has received for her talents and craft.
@ChrisHollobaugh6 ай бұрын
@@jareds2253 We'll see!
@ChrisHollobaugh4 ай бұрын
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.
@luizfcavalcanti3 жыл бұрын
definitely hits home in the same way for me brother ✊
@StricklandPropane33 жыл бұрын
the sadness
@kushuren3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely ... its deep
@Vik4703 жыл бұрын
So true ❤
@aimee78663 жыл бұрын
The protagonist found joy riding with her boyfriend in the fast car. Let her enjoy her few hours in peace.
@JanEwing693 жыл бұрын
This woman's musical genius was granted by God Himself.
@user-se4ik5tl9l7 ай бұрын
It just won the CMA Song of the Year award after 35 years.
@danilosolis72236 ай бұрын
and its No 1 on the itunes chart today, the day after the grammy's
@anethers75453 ай бұрын
@@anethers7545❤🎯
@willieshelton82953 ай бұрын
@@anethers7545 This song is a rare gem. I'm so happy it's gaining a new audience!!
@giovanna7223 ай бұрын
Industry didn’t appreciate it when she came out with it cause… only recognizing it cause Luke Combs God bless him
@Rg111953 ай бұрын
@@Rg11195 she won a grammy back in the day as you can see she's had a full career of releases tours and gaining a new generation of fans and respect
@ronpaizley93495 күн бұрын
Tracy is one of the true gifts of our lifetimes. This song stays with you forever. Be some one - good!
@gordondafoe35163 ай бұрын
This storytelling in this song is so vivid and well-written. A timeless masterpiece that never fails to make me smile. Thank you, Tracy.
@aizawa-kun1552 Жыл бұрын
35 year old song. Gives me chills hearing it again. Love it!!!
@chrisbgarrett10 ай бұрын
I've played this video so many times today. Thank you for this song, Tracy. It speaks to so many of us.
@masvas13 ай бұрын
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
@MrMRW145 ай бұрын
Its a song and when you hear it its never the shame ever
@jareds22534 ай бұрын
❤I love this song!
@kerriiffinger85483 ай бұрын
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
@Guill0rtiz3 жыл бұрын
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 KZhead about 3 weeks ago, I listen every day since.
@rogerbyington56403 жыл бұрын
How beautiful
@give_me_a_quiet_mind3 жыл бұрын
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.
@gonzalolopezdelerena58593 жыл бұрын
The entire album is a masterpiece
@baggydevil17493 жыл бұрын
@@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.
@RyanYewell2 жыл бұрын
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.
@davidb57117 ай бұрын
Wow, your thoughts and opinions are so poingnant ! Bravo to you..👍💖
@stevejacobs83754 ай бұрын
Absolutely amazing🔥
@IG_music4 ай бұрын
Amazing take
@hassanawodi58884 ай бұрын
Well said
@saram42234 ай бұрын
What a fantastic comment, completely agree 👍
@halabala19893 ай бұрын
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!
@jasthomas42913 ай бұрын
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.
@ingram18333 ай бұрын
The whisper quality of her voice. Goosebumps
@leendecanck47235 ай бұрын
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
@LutherAmosHouse8 ай бұрын
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!
@jamescreighton5559 Жыл бұрын
I agree
@bradfordjohnson43211 ай бұрын
When music was legendary ❤😊
@anthonytesoriero867611 ай бұрын
Woww I love it ❤
@JahReign92019 ай бұрын
35 years. That's how you know it's timeless
@joeycoco53963 ай бұрын
Quasiment 40ans 💖💘incroyablement intemporel 💖💖💖 merciii Madame tracy pour ses chansons qui me rappelle ma jeunesse, j'ai mal ..
@zouzou881522 сағат бұрын
"I had a feeling that I belonged. I had a feeling I could be someone". This is one of the best lines of all time!
@juvenallunaortega75463 жыл бұрын
Totally agree!
@woodwaif403 жыл бұрын
Sem dúvidas VC disse tudo
@fernandokuroski64913 жыл бұрын
This line sound like Jordan Peterson speaking....
@juliaoitape3 жыл бұрын
@Juvenal Luna Ortega do you know Someone to You by Banners? It isn't so deep like fast car but there is a idea that you may like.
@kinm70323 жыл бұрын
Just reading this takes my breath away.
@lorih66033 жыл бұрын
Who's listening in December 2020? Tracy is just Amazing!
@robertwilliam43683 жыл бұрын
Me 5am 7th Oct Liverpool, I have loved this song since its first recording but always thought she sang '' my arms and legs wrapped around your shoulders" and I still have to check myself when when belting this out in the garden 😳🙄
@maureenmurray89563 жыл бұрын
Me.i like her so much
@dalilaracimou29223 жыл бұрын
@@maureenmurray8956 Well explained, thank you.
@Youngescapeplanlife3 жыл бұрын
HEYO. Getting myself into a good place to be ready to play drums in a few hours.
@itsnicksharpbro3 жыл бұрын
Another real artist who is subdued by this corrupt industry
@wizz66483 жыл бұрын
What can I say, but Oh my God Tracy….Thank You!! Love from Utah ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@aGIMME12 ай бұрын
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.
@lilianasanchez9623 ай бұрын
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.
@iflostpleasereturn61356 ай бұрын
Its beautiul song dummy
@andyjones39723 ай бұрын
Same
@Hurpooter3 ай бұрын
Loser
@andyjones39723 ай бұрын
😭😭 I have to keep reminding myself it's not autobiographical
@AjAj-yb2zb3 ай бұрын
"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. 😞
@sueprice33153 ай бұрын
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.
@thomaselbek99222 жыл бұрын
This made me tear up. Yes it’s true.
@castawayonthemoon2 жыл бұрын
you not gonna die anytime soon papa you still got 60 more to go
@praisemadzima80032 жыл бұрын
"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!" 🤗❤️🙏🏼🙌🏼
@paraschaurasia33672 жыл бұрын
Correct thomas. My "fast car" moment is coming soon May the Lord guide me
@hectorlineusesquivel3648 Жыл бұрын
@@hectorlineusesquivel3648 reading your comment as I am watching this at the bus stop bcuz this song popped in my head, you and me both🔥🙏🔥
@payableondeath9091 Жыл бұрын
She differently deserved this award back in the 80s
@julieo62663 ай бұрын
THE BEST! Emotion, delivery and lyric.....god, I cry a good cry everytime I hear it. Beautiful
@davidmarin57713 ай бұрын
We don't look for old songs, we look for the memories they carry
@Tye84xx Жыл бұрын
Like
@irenerivas905 Жыл бұрын
More like the PASSION musicians used to have for their art
@Muffin_Masher Жыл бұрын
They bring the best times in our lives come back
@ransomndifang7510 Жыл бұрын
Beautifully said!! ❤
@comicnicky7611 ай бұрын
Beautiful melodies Tracy🇿🇦🇿🇼
@emilymunyukwa847410 ай бұрын
This is the only version that exists in my world. Tracy is amazing. Long live the 80s.
@jodycwilliams10 ай бұрын
I love the country version
@animal1nstinct39410 ай бұрын
@@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.
@trenrager10 ай бұрын
@@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.
@canivan347010 ай бұрын
@@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
@user-sp8bq9sr1l10 ай бұрын
@@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
@joeywray204110 ай бұрын
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.
@MicroTex233 ай бұрын
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.
@travelispassionromania19943 ай бұрын
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. 🤍
@ava86149 ай бұрын
me to Ava doing right now
@westcoastrednek53318 ай бұрын
Every. Time.
@poilaaliop3 ай бұрын
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.
@jezebelle573 ай бұрын
@ava8614 Yasssss girl! How about singing at the top of your lungs WHILE CRYING! 😄😭😄😭
@brendaestrada-schmidt21233 ай бұрын
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
@ekkamailax3 жыл бұрын
😢yup
@KeyKeyJournals3 жыл бұрын
And still do...💔
@sistergoldenhair18092 жыл бұрын
Keep on driving.
@catherinekille70462 жыл бұрын
Left it all in the rear view window....😞
@summerwilley50832 жыл бұрын
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.
@zeinamccartney76633 ай бұрын
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
@xavierhubbell45623 жыл бұрын
you story, listening to Tracy raised a tear
@spursman4life13 жыл бұрын
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.
@rickenterkin47202 жыл бұрын
Linda demais
@soniasilva69362 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️
@davidslaton2 жыл бұрын
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...
@thaeros2 жыл бұрын
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.
@jameslannon978811 ай бұрын
Yes James
@dalemums136011 ай бұрын
The best
@dalemums136011 ай бұрын
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 👄 💋 🎵 🔥🎶🎶🎵🎵💘🎼🎼💘👍👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
@conceicaoaparecida355710 ай бұрын
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.
@iontheball19 ай бұрын
Snap brother
@isnmckenna20568 ай бұрын
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!
@iancasey14865 ай бұрын
No cell phones. Everyone living in the moment. I miss those days.
@bradstrong41553 ай бұрын
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.
@muzicgr88 ай бұрын
Word.👊
@kagisojunior117 ай бұрын
Beautiful
@jareds22534 ай бұрын
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.
@hankgraver69343 ай бұрын
Who's listening to Tracy Chapman in 2021, this song and performance was amazing🤩, like if u agree..
@jordanpinto16883 жыл бұрын
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.
@JohnGaltShadow2 жыл бұрын
I’ll still have this and revolution on my playlist when I’m 80 🤙🏻
@ashrickard7212 жыл бұрын
TC is amazing
@sampuatisamuel97852 жыл бұрын
Yes, I saw Her the first time on the Tonight Show, I think it was, in the 80s! I got Her Cassettes!
@BETTERWORLDSGT2 жыл бұрын
Jordan - STOP IT!!!!
@libertygiveme19872 жыл бұрын
Just imagine being there live at 2:10... you're already engaged, zoned out and totally soothed by this beautiful music, and then she goes off on another tangent that's equally beautiful. So so so good.
@shaunyb25 ай бұрын
This is a timeless piece of art....I was a young man when this came out, and now at soon to be 47, I think of how this song played in my mind all of those years later when I went through the up and downs of surving in this world....songs like this still remind me that there is someone with a dream to make it despite the adversities....just gotta keep pushing toward your goals regardless of what hurdles life brings....you just keep moving!!....masterpiece work of art and a timeless contribution to the soundtrack of life
@quagmireswagga3 ай бұрын
You would have been 12 or 13 when this song was released. You were barely out of your teens, not even close to a grown man yet. I'm 47 and I know how old I was when I first heard this song and I was 15 and loved everything about the song.
@kguerr1973 ай бұрын
If you're watching this in 2021, I love you and you're not alone.
@linktaigo88-top12 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤😭
@brandivanderkooi34522 жыл бұрын
oh yeah im fuckin alone trust me
@JohnDoe-uq6ei2 жыл бұрын
Wow ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@enkhmargadganbold45242 жыл бұрын
Im alone but not lonely
@citiz3nalphazero7582 жыл бұрын
🥰🥰🥰🥰
@AntoninaSiqueira2 жыл бұрын
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
@b3xi.i.6022 жыл бұрын
Beautiful comment. Beautiful dream...I'm sure you're not the only one....
@jh61 Жыл бұрын
I hope you’ve written a song since this, you’ll never know if you don’t try
@georgetester Жыл бұрын
My daughter loves this song, too.
@debras.rodriguez6025 Жыл бұрын
I had the honor of seeing Tracey Chapman live in a park in Northampton,MA on a beautiful evening. It was magical! This performance was wonderful and seeing the happiness in her face as the audience cheered was the best! I am so glad a new generation s hearing her music.
@Ivehadenuff3 ай бұрын
Deserves way more credit. One of the best voices of our generation. Unbelievable
@jasonflett35875 ай бұрын
This is one of the most beautiful, honest, heartbreaking songs I have ever heard. I know how to play it, but I cannot make it through this song without tearing up. I hate when people request it because it physically hurts me to perform this song. I can’t explain it.
@DeanMadonia2 жыл бұрын
agree
@eclecticmusic1232 жыл бұрын
its not heartbreaking it sounds good lol
@pony87652 жыл бұрын
Well put, and me as well, usually during the chorus.
@TheMAKeleven2 жыл бұрын
I feel you! So just imagine how hard must be for her, telling her own story! And YES, finally, she became SOMEONE! This lady came from heaven!
@alexg63742 жыл бұрын
You don’t have to explain. Myself and I’m sure many more understand. 🙏
@swampdwellermichael2 жыл бұрын
Her voice is so free and real, filled with lots of emotions. I love her.
@infinitejock.24352 жыл бұрын
You can see the passion in her eyes too. I can't find a better cover either.
@stfuporfavor9102 Жыл бұрын
National treasure since the 90s.. she is the key to peace
@leoj913 күн бұрын
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.
@brianbeheydt46653 ай бұрын
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.
@rodfriesen4370 Жыл бұрын
❤️❤️
@maymunaadiouf4665 Жыл бұрын
Yeah. You have to live decades before it really sinks in how awfully crushing this song is.
@andrewforce6516 Жыл бұрын
Lindaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@matheusvicente6927 Жыл бұрын
same!
@KT-fm7dt10 ай бұрын
One of the most well-constructed songs of all time! Just incredible.
@justinsperanza36734 жыл бұрын
Weird to hear an actual story in a song now. Not just hooks, bridges and the chorus.
@nathangoddard81153 жыл бұрын
Agree 100%
@richardroginski75153 жыл бұрын
She (and this song!) are evergreen! Wow!
@joekraemer46203 жыл бұрын
@@nathangoddard8115 ! Q
@fatimmamoustakime28603 жыл бұрын
I'll see if song after all these yrs could some pain it would be great
@michelleirisjoysaschathyst54293 жыл бұрын
I’ve always loved Tracy chapman. Her voice is so smooth and full of emotion. ❤
@janedoefrommo3 ай бұрын
This song is a true work of art. It digs deep into the human experience and brings out emotions. Thank you Tracy Chapman.
@drewstuart68252 ай бұрын
This is the type of song that as you get older, the more you connect to it.
@ablanuza763 жыл бұрын
i find the song has a very different emotional impact at 50 something than it did at 20 something
@joedews72343 жыл бұрын
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😁😆😃🤩
@josevanderlei93423 жыл бұрын
I heard this song when I was 10 years old, on a sugar estate somewhere in Zimbabwe and I told my mother that it was the most beautiful sad song I had ever heard and now in 2020 it is still that song that takes me to a place that no other song can, in other words it's my favourite song in the whole world. ❤
@preciousr23273 жыл бұрын
@herzeliedstein5733 жыл бұрын
Oh that place where white people got kicked out of and then the dollar crashed, and they begged the white crop growers to come back? I’m sorry you are from there.
@Chasecka3 жыл бұрын
@@Chasecka Imagine not being able to hear a nice, personal story someone shares regarding a beautiful song without bringing race into it. Get a life, my guy.
@zozo68623 жыл бұрын
@@Chasecka, get therapy.
@matthiastroitzsch76663 жыл бұрын
Zo Zo It is just a fact. They are the racists. They killed whites.
@Chasecka3 жыл бұрын
She's a poet and a beautiful soul
@albertgoss44473 ай бұрын
So glad Luke covered this and she is getting more recognition by a new generation. This touched my soul when first released.
@davidsaurers8193 ай бұрын
This is quite possibly the most beautiful song I've ever heard in my life. God bless that woman.
@godzilladestroyscities17573 жыл бұрын
Makes everything okay 🔥🔥🔥
@jayelma97383 жыл бұрын
Godzilla Destroys Cities I thought this was a dude
@myidentityisamystery51423 жыл бұрын
Piano Impro ikr
@JustinTimeForParties3 жыл бұрын
@@myidentityisamystery5142 fun fact she's a woman 😊
@roxannemcv42593 жыл бұрын
First time I heard it it touched my spirit ❤👏🏼😎
@lindacarter70133 жыл бұрын
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!
@kirstinmartin43212 жыл бұрын
Wow, that sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing.
@peteyesco2 жыл бұрын
It is called dreadlocks
@leeanndap70202 жыл бұрын
locs not cornrows but everything else it true 🤙🏽
@itsmealanaa2 жыл бұрын
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
@terrencedube97022 жыл бұрын
Didn't realize this song was that old. Thought it was early 90s
@crieverytim2 жыл бұрын
I really need a fast car now!!!😢😢 just buried my dad Sunday 😢😢🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@tiffanywilliams95455 ай бұрын
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. 🙏
@dwolf97573 ай бұрын
Remember. As long as your 🩸 flow and maybe children 🩸 flow. Part of him is still around
@thewatchmen49203 ай бұрын
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.
@francesmendenhall1893 ай бұрын
sorry for your loss 🎀
@amlou49752 ай бұрын
How many of you who have listened to this song have wondered when they stood at this crossroad....did they make the right choice? For some of us the fast car is gone and so is the woman who was the center of their universe.
@dariofabiani85693 ай бұрын
There are a lot of singer story tellers, but Tracy Chapman has to be one of the BEST in my opinion.
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.
❤
Of course
She rocked the Grammy’s.
She shined like a star.✨💞 It was a beautiful duet.
A1q@@elfin12u
Her smile was everything ❤️
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.
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
@@sevynthdaye2863 A
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
♥♥♥
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
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 is timeless ❤❤thank you Tracy !who’s listening in 2024
Yup! Goosebumps
hugs
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 !
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 ❤❤
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
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 KZhead
@@bentk1120 got it. Watched it, amazing talent, audience knew how to appreciate and enjoy.
one of the best songs written - EVER
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.
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.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
✨️❤🙏
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.
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.
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
. K Mk K0pplpo Om . Mom. K
It’s billions heart bro 😎
God bless your pure heart Brother, Carry on.
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.
The live version sounds exactly the same as the recorded version what a legend
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.
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
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 😂😁😂
"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.😂
Knocked me flat when this first came out in 1988, still does in 2024. Timeless, Haunting Classic 😊
Haunting, yes
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 KZhead suggested music rabbit hole but I'm not disappointed
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
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??
Songs like this can only be written by an artist not an entertainer
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
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, raw talent. Just her amazing voice, and a guitar. No filters, no flashing lights, dancers or anything. Just Tracy Chapman singing so beautifully.
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.
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.
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!
You can feel and hear all the pain in her voice. I love this song.
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.
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!
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
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❤
I remember hearing this song on the radio as a kid in the 90's on our trips to visit my grandparents. I've always loved this song and have learned to understand and appreciate the emotion behind it more and more as time has passed. So happy for the newfound recognition Tracy has received for her talents and craft.
@@jareds2253 We'll see!
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.
This woman's musical genius was granted by God Himself.
It just won the CMA Song of the Year award after 35 years.
and its No 1 on the itunes chart today, the day after the grammy's
@@anethers7545❤🎯
@@anethers7545 This song is a rare gem. I'm so happy it's gaining a new audience!!
Industry didn’t appreciate it when she came out with it cause… only recognizing it cause Luke Combs God bless him
@@Rg11195 she won a grammy back in the day as you can see she's had a full career of releases tours and gaining a new generation of fans and respect
Tracy is one of the true gifts of our lifetimes. This song stays with you forever. Be some one - good!
This storytelling in this song is so vivid and well-written. A timeless masterpiece that never fails to make me smile. Thank you, Tracy.
35 year old song. Gives me chills hearing it again. Love it!!!
I've played this video so many times today. Thank you for this song, Tracy. It speaks to so many of us.
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!
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 KZhead 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.
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 👍
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.
The whisper quality of her voice. Goosebumps
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
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 ❤
35 years. That's how you know it's timeless
Quasiment 40ans 💖💘incroyablement intemporel 💖💖💖 merciii Madame tracy pour ses chansons qui me rappelle ma jeunesse, j'ai mal ..
"I had a feeling that I belonged. I had a feeling I could be someone". This is one of the best lines of all time!
Totally agree!
Sem dúvidas VC disse tudo
This line sound like Jordan Peterson speaking....
@Juvenal Luna Ortega do you know Someone to You by Banners? It isn't so deep like fast car but there is a idea that you may like.
Just reading this takes my breath away.
Who's listening in December 2020? Tracy is just Amazing!
Me 5am 7th Oct Liverpool, I have loved this song since its first recording but always thought she sang '' my arms and legs wrapped around your shoulders" and I still have to check myself when when belting this out in the garden 😳🙄
Me.i like her so much
@@maureenmurray8956 Well explained, thank you.
HEYO. Getting myself into a good place to be ready to play drums in a few hours.
Another real artist who is subdued by this corrupt industry
What can I say, but Oh my God Tracy….Thank You!! Love from Utah ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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.
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🔥🙏🔥
She differently deserved this award back in the 80s
THE BEST! Emotion, delivery and lyric.....god, I cry a good cry everytime I hear it. Beautiful
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 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
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.
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.
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! 😄😭😄😭
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....😞
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.
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
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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...
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
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!
No cell phones. Everyone living in the moment. I miss those days.
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.
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!!!!
Just imagine being there live at 2:10... you're already engaged, zoned out and totally soothed by this beautiful music, and then she goes off on another tangent that's equally beautiful. So so so good.
This is a timeless piece of art....I was a young man when this came out, and now at soon to be 47, I think of how this song played in my mind all of those years later when I went through the up and downs of surving in this world....songs like this still remind me that there is someone with a dream to make it despite the adversities....just gotta keep pushing toward your goals regardless of what hurdles life brings....you just keep moving!!....masterpiece work of art and a timeless contribution to the soundtrack of life
You would have been 12 or 13 when this song was released. You were barely out of your teens, not even close to a grown man yet. I'm 47 and I know how old I was when I first heard this song and I was 15 and loved everything about the song.
If you're watching this in 2021, I love you and you're not alone.
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oh yeah im fuckin alone trust me
Wow ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Im alone but not lonely
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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.
I had the honor of seeing Tracey Chapman live in a park in Northampton,MA on a beautiful evening. It was magical! This performance was wonderful and seeing the happiness in her face as the audience cheered was the best! I am so glad a new generation s hearing her music.
Deserves way more credit. One of the best voices of our generation. Unbelievable
This is one of the most beautiful, honest, heartbreaking songs I have ever heard. I know how to play it, but I cannot make it through this song without tearing up. I hate when people request it because it physically hurts me to perform this song. I can’t explain it.
agree
its not heartbreaking it sounds good lol
Well put, and me as well, usually during the chorus.
I feel you! So just imagine how hard must be for her, telling her own story! And YES, finally, she became SOMEONE! This lady came from heaven!
You don’t have to explain. Myself and I’m sure many more understand. 🙏
Her voice is so free and real, filled with lots of emotions. I love her.
You can see the passion in her eyes too. I can't find a better cover either.
National treasure since the 90s.. she is the key to peace
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.
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Yeah. You have to live decades before it really sinks in how awfully crushing this song is.
Lindaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
same!
One of the most well-constructed songs of all time! Just incredible.
Weird to hear an actual story in a song now. Not just hooks, bridges and the chorus.
Agree 100%
She (and this song!) are evergreen! Wow!
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I'll see if song after all these yrs could some pain it would be great
I’ve always loved Tracy chapman. Her voice is so smooth and full of emotion. ❤
This song is a true work of art. It digs deep into the human experience and brings out emotions. Thank you Tracy Chapman.
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😁😆😃🤩
I heard this song when I was 10 years old, on a sugar estate somewhere in Zimbabwe and I told my mother that it was the most beautiful sad song I had ever heard and now in 2020 it is still that song that takes me to a place that no other song can, in other words it's my favourite song in the whole world. ❤
Oh that place where white people got kicked out of and then the dollar crashed, and they begged the white crop growers to come back? I’m sorry you are from there.
@@Chasecka Imagine not being able to hear a nice, personal story someone shares regarding a beautiful song without bringing race into it. Get a life, my guy.
@@Chasecka, get therapy.
Zo Zo It is just a fact. They are the racists. They killed whites.
She's a poet and a beautiful soul
So glad Luke covered this and she is getting more recognition by a new generation. This touched my soul when first released.
This is quite possibly the most beautiful song I've ever heard in my life. God bless that woman.
Makes everything okay 🔥🔥🔥
Godzilla Destroys Cities I thought this was a dude
Piano Impro ikr
@@myidentityisamystery5142 fun fact she's a woman 😊
First time I heard it it touched my spirit ❤👏🏼😎
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
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 🎀
How many of you who have listened to this song have wondered when they stood at this crossroad....did they make the right choice? For some of us the fast car is gone and so is the woman who was the center of their universe.
There are a lot of singer story tellers, but Tracy Chapman has to be one of the BEST in my opinion.
She lived it