'I Wanted To Crawl In A Hole': Tracy Chapman Told Luke Combs His 'Fast Car' Lyrics Were Wrong
"I think about it every single time I sing this song," Combs said.
Tracy Chapman, Luke Combs (Facebook, Jeremy Cowart)
Luke Combs has recalled the moment Tracy Chapman told him he sang the wrong words in his rendition of her song Fast Car. Upon discovering his mistake, Combs remembered that he “wanted to crawl in a hole.”
Combs shared the revelation during a recent concert, telling his fans that he had recorded the song’s final line — “we gotta make a decision” — as “still gotta make a decision.”
Addressing the crowd, Combs said that it was during a conversation with Chapman that he realised his mistake.
“That was the first time I knew I had recorded the song incorrectly,” Combs said in videos filmed by fans. “I remember when she said it, I wanted to crawl in a hole.
“Luckily, she was awesome about it. I think about it every single time I sing this song, and I will think about it every single time I sing this song for the rest of my whole life, but she was so cool about it.”
He continued, “So, the words you know as ‘Still gotta make a decision’ is not the words … not the words … I just made that up in my head … so tonight I will probably sing ‘We gotta make a decision’ because Tracy Chapman told me to and damn it, I’m gonna do it.”
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You can watch the footage below.
Luke Combs’ 2023 rendition of Fast Car has been an enormous success. It won Single of the Year at the CMA Awards and was nominated for a Grammy award (for Best Country Solo Performance). During the Grammy Awards, the pair performed the song together, with Chapman making her long-awaited return to the stage.
Combs’ Fast Car also got to #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay Chart, making Chapman the first black woman to have a sole writing credit on a chart-topping country song.
Upon releasing his version of the song, Combs described Fast Car as his “first favourite song probably ever.”
He added, “I love [Fast Car] so much, and I think it’s such a great song that it deserves to be heard by a whole generation of people that haven’t heard it before, and so to be able to, like, have an opportunity to do that, especially with a song that’s meant so much to me and my love of music from as far back as I can remember is super unique.”
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