Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (Live)

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.

How can someone write a song that breaks your heart and lifts your soul at the same time? Absolute legend.

She rocked the Grammy’s.

Tracy grew up in poverty, when she sings you can feel her reaching out to us from those childhood moments. God bless you!

35 yrs after the original release she takes the 2023 CMA Song of the Year award! BRAVO TRACY! X

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

No fancy light, props dancing, costume..just pure singing..pure Gold.

This song is timeless ❤❤thank you Tracy !who’s listening in 2024

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

This is crazy how she basically wrote a movie in lyrical form. 😮

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.

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.

This song still feels fresher than ever in 2023... Absolutely timeless 😊❤

Pure legend. One of the best songs ever written. Period.

There is not a sole on earth, nor will ever be, that can cover this song better than the original. No way no how.

Knocked me flat when this first came out in 1988, still does in 2024. Timeless, Haunting Classic 😊

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

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.....

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.

Pure, raw talent. Just her amazing voice, and a guitar. No filters, no flashing lights, dancers or anything. Just Tracy Chapman singing so beautifully.