#SongLyricSunday-Fast Car-October 4

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This week for Song Lyric Sunday our host Jim Adams for has given us the prompt of User Choice where you can go your own way, or do your own thing.

Here are the “rules”:
• Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video, or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Sometimes as humans we don’t like to have too much freedom of choice. I’m not mad at Jim this week but having a wide range of choices can sometimes paralyze us. Here is an article on “excess choice”.

People in living out their lives often get stuck between crummy choices. I have empathy for folks caught in that dilemma. Not ever choice works out with a storybook ending.

Thankfully for me a song about people stuck with those types of “choices” came right to mind. I went with a Tracy Chapman song titled “Fast Car”.

This 1988 song is all about a couple that has to make a CHOICE in the midst of less than ideal consequences. Here are some facts about that song.

Chapman was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended college in Boston at Tufts University. She is one of many notable people that attended Tufts.

Here are the lyrics

Tracy Chapman can best described as singer/songwriter and in the late 1980’s there were not many labeled as mainstream but she became one.

Chapman climb to International Fame occurred in 1988 at a Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert in Wembley Stadium.

Here is that performance. Notice the huge crowd and she is up there all by herself with no back up band. Powerful.

Sometimes in life we get faced with USER CHOICES

“you got to make a decision-leave tonight or live and die this way”