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tracy chapman - fast car (lyrics on the side)
You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Anyplace is better Starting from zero got ...
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car ( with lyrics)
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Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman helped restore singers/songwriters to the spotlight in the 80s. The multi-platinum success of Chapman’s eponymous 1988 debut was unexpected, and it had a lasting impact. Although Chapman was working from the same confessional singer/songwriter foundation that had been popularised in the 70s, her songs were fresh and powerful, driven by simple melodies and affecting lyrics. At the time of her first album, there were only a handful of artistes performing such a style successfully, and her success ushered in a new era of singers/songwriters that lasted well into the 90s. Her album also helped usher in the era of political correctness along with 10,000 Maniacs and R.E.M., Chapman’s liberal politics proved enormously influential on American college campuses in the late 80s.
Of course, such implications meant that Chapman’s subsequent recordings were greeted with mixed reactions, but after several years out of the spotlight, she managed to make a very successful comeback in 1996 with her fourth album, New Beginning, thanks to the Top Ten single ‘Give Me One Reason’.
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Soon, the single 'Fast Car' began climbing the charts, eventually peaking at number six. The album's sales soared along with the single, and by the end of the year, the record had gone multi-platinum. Early the following year, the record won four
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presenting a more fragile Osho in a song that emotionally addresses a women's journey of lost identity and perfection, perfectly communicated to the audience through a soulfully touching vocal delivery that reminded me of Tracy Chapman's Fast Car.
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CC: I love Tracy Chapman and I'm devastated she hasn't come up with a new record, but I think that lyrically, she is just a genius and so raw and so humble. “You've Got a Fast Car” is just such an awesome song and is timeless forever and ever. |
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RT @: Tracy Chapman, Fast Car what a song. Definately a classic, bet there's no one that doesn't know the lyrics! 
RT @: Tracy Chapman, Fast Car what a song. Definately a classic, bet there's no one that doesn't know the lyrics! 
Tracy Chapman, Fast Car what a song. Definately a classic, bet there's no one that doesn't know the lyrics! 
I liked a @ video Fast Car Tracy Chapman Lyrics
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