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Luke Combs Messed Up The Lyrics For “Fast Car”
“Fast Car” is one of the biggest country music covers of all-time, and it’s well-known that Luke Combs was such a big fan of Tracy Chapman growing up, that all he wanted to do was make her proud with his version.
So, what do you think Luke was thinking when Tracy let him know he screwed up the lyrics on the studio recording?
To be fair, it was a small mistake.
Instead of saying “WE gotta make a decision” . . . he said, “STILL gotta make a decision.”
At a recent concert, Luke talked about the blunder.
He was reliving the moment when Tracy asked him why he switched the lyric and said,
“And that was the first time that I knew that I recorded the song incorrectly. Because I remember when she said it, I wanted to crawl in a hole.”
Luke said she was awesome about it, but that he will think about it every single time he sings the song for the rest of his life.
He closed his speech by saying,
“So tonight I will probably sing ‘WE gotta make a decision’, because Tracy Chapman told me to . . . and damnit, I’m gonna do it.”
