Tracy Chapman: Fast Car and a 35 Year Legacy
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Tracy Chapman: Fast Car and a 35 Year Legacy
On Sunday at the Grammy awards we saw Grammy winner and singer Tracy Chapman share the stage with Luke Combs as they sung her famous song Fast Car to a global audience.
It was beautiful.
As we seen the two artists get past their first hiccups of Luke doing a cover to her song and the dust up from that, Tracey extended grace and shared the stage with Luke in an awesome performance for the night.
Tracy with her timeless voice, ageless beauty and guitar in our hand took her sun amongst a generation yearning for good ole time music. And it works.
Fast Car
You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere
Any place is better
Starting from zero, got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
Me, myself, I got nothing to proveYou got a fast car
I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
Won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be livingSee, my old man's got a problem
He lives with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said, somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I didYou got a fast car
Is it fast enough so we can fly away?
We gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this waySo I remember we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someoneYou got a fast car
We go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbsSo I remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someoneYou got a fast car
I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on drivingSo I remember when we were driving, driving in your car
Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged
I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someoneYou got a fast car
Is it fast enough so you can fly away?
You gotta make a decision
Leave tonight or live and die this way
Youngsters jumped to make Fast Car #1 on U.S. iTunes Chart. I just hope they go pump up the numbers from the rest of her catalog like:
Give Me One Reason
Talking ‘Bout A Revolution
Crossroads
Music is a way to share our struggles, our pain, our resilience. Great artists make music for a time and that last.
Tracy did just that.
Looking at her album cover, it is modest to me, calm and humble. With her start locs in her hair and her youthful face it inspires women everywhere.
She didn’t hide her talents and her deep struggles are inside. We can hear her vocalize them in her lyrics that touch across demographics and genders. It touched us all.
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And that is Black History. In fact, it is also Women’s Empowerment.
A non-traditional singer telling her story to the world and doing it her way.
Her story
Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She was raised by her mother, who bought her a ukulele at age three.[3] Her parents divorced when she was four years old.[4] She began playing guitar and writing songs at age eight. She says that she may have been first inspired to play the guitar by the television show Hee Haw.[5] In her native Cleveland she experienced frequent bullying and racially motivated assaults as a child.[6]
Raised a Baptist, she attended an Episcopal high school[5] and was accepted into the program A Better Chance, which sponsors students at college preparatory high schools away from their home communities. She graduated from Wooster School in Connecticut then attended Tufts University, majoring in Anthropology.[3][4][7][8] While a student at Tufts, she busked in nearby spots, including Harvard Square and on MBTA Red Line platforms.[9][10] Chapman recorded demos of songs on the Tufts University radio station, WMFO, while she was a student there for copyright purposes, in exchange for the station's right to play her songs.[11]
History isn’t just 100s of years ago. We make history in the recent and she made history Sunday.
She has made so many feats that they would be too many to list here like her 8 solo albums.
Putting aside any hard feelings, fan sentiments and worry, Tracy shared the stage and blessed us modern adults with her voice.
Fast Cars is 35 years old, and I am 39. That tells how long her legacy is.
Watch the performance below from Entertainment Tonight and enjoy.
There are many ways that women can be inspired and impactful. One way is through music and musicians who make history.
You don’t need to look a certain way, tell all your business or get into mess dramas to be beloved or to be important.
Icons are those who live their life their way and do what they feel compelled to do.
A 35-year legacy is a statement. And Tracy made it.
Tell us what you think about her, her song, her legacy and how it impacted you.
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