![]() ![]() Well, maybe, his mind aged faster than his body did. Alcohol ages a person faster than anything else. Her father turned into alcohol to cope up with the stresses of family life. She could not leave her father behind.īut things did not turn out to be so smooth after her mother left. She would have taken her daughter, but she refused. She wanted more from life and the singer’s father could not provide her that in this small town. ![]() It comes from her mother who left her and her father both behind to leave for the city. We also get to know where her thirst for ‘something more’ for life comes from. In the third verse of “Fast Car,” we hear a little back story of the singer and why she is in her current situation. She just wants to give herself the opportunity. The city just next to their town seems to brim with opportunities. She knows she has no future with her music in this town. Her job at the convenience store barely makes their ends meet. Tracy Chapman is the determined girlfriend and her boyfriend has a car. The dialogue converts more and more to a story between a couple. Tracy believes the city will bring her more opportunities. She can use that money to get them out of this dead town and drive just across the border into the city. She was working at the local convenience store and managed to save a few hundred dollars. In the second verse, too, we hear Tracy Chapman dreaming about that car that represents her freedom from everything she is stuck in right now. All she has for herself is “Me, myself, I.” Verse 2 But she knows for certain that she will not succeed from where she is now. The singer does not know for certain that she will find success where she is headed. It is quite ironic that her song titled “Fast Car” was her ticket out of her struggles after it won her a Grammy award. While she does not see herself as the protagonist of “Fast Car,” she probably can relate. The fast car symbolizes an opportunity.Īlthough Tracy Chapman said the song was not autobiographical, she lived through her fair share of struggles before recording her debut studio album. The fast car isn’t necessarily a real car. ![]() ![]() So, for Tracy the ‘fast car’ represents her golden ticket out of this world she is stuck in. Tracy herself has nothing to her name and she knows she is rotting in the same small village she is in unless she makes a move. In the first verse of the song, Tracy Chapman is heard talking to somebody–somebody with a car. “Fast Car” Lyrics Meaning and Song Review Verse 1 However, Tracy Chapman also added that the song is not a direct reflection of her life īuy Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” on Vinyl from Amazon I’ve raised by a single mom, I was just watching people, being in a community of people who were struggling. “In United States, “Fast Car” was the song that was played on the radio, more than “Talkin’Bout A Revolution” so it was something that turned out to take a significant role in shaping my first record and probably the public perception of me as a singer-songwriter who is writing about stories, songs which tells stories about people lives and very generally represents the world that I saw it when I was growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, coming from a working-class background. “Fast Car” won the ‘Best Pop Vocal Performance Female’ at the 1988 Grammy Awards and was nominated for the ‘Song of the Year’ at the same event.ĪboutTrac圜hapman blog gives us an insight into what Tracy Chapman said about “Fast Car” in an interview with BBC in 2010 Rolling Stone magazine also inducted the song onto their coveted ‘ The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time’ List at #167. MetroWeekly ranked “Fast Car” at #39 on their ’50 Greatest Pop Songs of the ’80s’ list. ![]()
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