Fast life

The original song by Tracy Chapman "Fast Car" embodies what difficulties, experiences, and challenges that we have to face in life through poetry. Tracy Chapman uses a reoccurring motif of a car. The car is a "getaway" vehicle because she is describing how she wants to escape from where she is in life. The title also gives off a sense that the "Fast car" can symbolizes life moving to quickly to slow down and wait. "Starting from zero got nothing to lose" Tracy Chapman uses this line to show that she already is at her lowest point in life and their can't be anything worse that she can lose. These are some of the things in the song that expresses a reoccurring theme of life's struggles and opportunities.




Tracy Chapman also seems to use the person in the car possibly a male figure because through using similes and just the way of words that she has in these lines make it like there is someone accompanying her through this journey, "So I remember when we were driving / Driving in your car / Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk / City lights lay out before us / And your arms wrapped around my shoulders and ...." . When she says "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk", Tracy Chapman is trying to use a simile to make her emotions play out like poetry. When Tracy Chapman uses poetic language to enhance the song she adds several meanings to it, for anyone to look at it in any way. Yet any way that you look at the song is a positive way because it is saying that you have to let go and find yourself and never give up when the times are rough, there is always something else.