#one headlight

[mudwerks]

(via One Headlight - The Wallflowers (1996)

[liquidgirl13]

The Wallflowers

"One Headlight" (Official Music Video)

🥰🎸🎙️🎶

[mortifiedandawesome]

One Headlight-Torn BY Dj Axel feat X4

[tears-in-my-tardis]

analyzing the songs in my good omens playlist

One Headlight by The Wallflowers

link to the whole playlist here

choice lyrics include:

So long ago I don’t remember when, that’s when they say I lost my only friend.

come on now. i don’t even need to explain this one even a little. i just can’t pick if it’s more devastating as crowley or aziraphale.

Come on, try a little, nothing lasts forever.

“you can’t leave this bookshop.” “oh crowley, nothing lasts forever.”

Gotta be something better than in the middle.

We. Could. Have. Been. Us.

We put it all together, we can drive it home with one headlight.

this just feels bentley to me. not that crowley would allow her to be in such disrepair.

But there’s got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me through this maze of ugliness and greed.

think aziraphale realizing the angels aren’t as good as they say they are.

We ran until she’s out of breath, she ran until there’s nothing left, she hit the end, just her window ledge.

think crowley trying to run away to the stars, s1 or 2.

Well this place is old, it feels just like a beat up truck.

restlessness with the status quo something something.

I turn the engine, but the engine doesn’t turn.

bentley making her own choices.

This place is always such a mess, sometimes I think I’d like to watch it burn.

the way this lyric had me scream. crowley being bitter alone on earth anyone?

I’m so alone, feel just like somebody else, man, I ain’t changed but I know I ain’t the same.

i feel like this is also self explanatory and dually applicable.

[vmures]

On the topic of things that don't stop being awesome even as you age: putting on a playlist of songs you like to sing along with/jam out to for any reason whatsoever (you had a shit day, you're in a particular mood, you need a boost, you just want some music).

We don't think anything of doing that as kids or teens. Hell, it's generally expected that we'll listen to our music too loud and annoy the shit out of our parents. But a lot of people treat it as cringe to do the older you get. But the endorphins and power of music don't stop just because you got older. So pick out new faves and old faves, turn the volume up, and let yourself have fun with it.

Sing your heart out. Dance with wild abandon. Rage along with Rage Against the Machine. Feel your eyes well up as you belt along with "This is Me." Let yourself be transported to another place in time by the memory of the first time you heard a song.

[chickenwaang]

Think we can make it through the cosmos with one headlight..? Maybe that’s what all the stars are..

[danu2203]

ONE HEADLIGHT

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: May 21, 1996

Lyrics:

So long ago, I don't remember when

That's when they say I lost my only friend

Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease

As I listened through the cemetery trees

Hey

I seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn

The long broken arm of human law

Now it always seemed such a waste, she always had a pretty face

So I wondered why she hung around this place

Come on, try a little

Nothing is forever

There's got to be something better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We'll put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

She said, "It's cold, it feels like Independence Day

And I can't break away from this parade."

But there's got to be an opening

Somewhere here in front of me

Through this maze of ugliness and greed

Hey

And I seen the sun up ahead at the county-line bridge

Saying all there's good and nothingness is dead

We'll run until she's out of breath

She ran until there's nothing left

She hit the end, it's just her window ledge

Come on, try a little

Nothing is forever

There's got to be something better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

Well, this place is old, it feels just like a beat up truck

I turn the engine, but the engine doesn't turn

What smells of cheap wine, cigarettes

This place is always such a mess

Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn

Hey, hey, hey

I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody else

Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same

But somewhere here in between

The city walls of dying dreams

I think her death, it must be killing me

Songwriter: Jakob Dylan

Come on, try a little

Nothing is forever

There's got to be something better than

In the middle

But me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

SongFacts:

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Homepage:

The Wallflowers

[tornbluefoamcouch]

Artista: The Wallflowers Álbum: Bringing Down The Horse Ano: 1996 Faixas/Tempo: 11/51min Estilo: Alternative Rock Data de Execução: 30/04/2024 Nota: 7,0 Melhor Música: One Headlight

[mortifiedandawesome]

One Headlight-Torn BY Dj Axel feat X4

[myimaginaryradio]

One Headlight - The Wallflowers - 1996

[duranduratulsa]

The Wallflowers - One Headlight (Official Music Video)

90's Fest Song of the day 2: One Headlight by The Wallflowers (1996) from Bringing Down The Horse #thewallflowers #oneheadlight #bringingdownthehorse #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest

[ckret2]

So y'all know the Gravity Falls production bible that leaked three weeks ago. Someone in one of my discord servers pointed this out:

And, naturally, that spawned an entire AU.

AU Concept: Ford was kicked out instead of Stan and takes a job as a trucker to makes ends meet since he couldn't go to college, while still studying the weird and anomalous however he can.

Ford driving around from quirky small town to quirky small town, drifting through the liminal spaces of truck stops, meeting odd people in isolated diners, seeing strange things out on the road—a deer with too many eyes bounding across a two-lane highway, a flirty woman at a rest stop who doesn't blink or breathe, mysterious lights in the sky at night, inhuman growls on the CB or 50-year-old broadcasts on the radio—and taking notes when he stops for gas or food.

Aside from having gotten kicked out before graduating high school, Ford's the same person he is in canon.

He's still an ambitious guy, and here "ambitious" means working hard and saving as much money as he can—so, a long haul owner-operator who spends weeks at a time on the road. (He goes through a LOT of educational audiobooks.) Plus, this is the easiest way for him to get to travel the country; and since it looks like his "travel the world" dreams with Stan are dead, he'll take what he can get.

Since he's never in the same spot long and carries his life in a truck, almost all of Ford's research is in his journal. His bag of investigation supplies has an instant camera, a portable tape recorder, a thermometer, a flashlight, rubber gloves, and a few zip lock bags—and that's about it. It has to share space with all his clothes, toiletries, and nonperishable food when he's on the road. He doesn't have much opportunity to closely examine anything odd he finds, unless he's lucky enough to run into something when he can stop for the night. He has to cram his paranormal research around the side of his full-time job.

He doesn't live in Gravity Falls, but he knows it exists. Every time he moves—to Chicago, to Nebraska, to California—he seems to inch closer. He currently lives in Portland and usually hauls loads between the Pacific Northwest and Chicago or New York. He stops at the truck stop outside Gravity Falls when he can and has gone fishing in town a few times. He doesn't have the benefit of extensive research to know that this is the weirdest town in the world; but it seems pretty weird to him, there are local rumors about the town, and he's had some weird experiences in the area.

Plus, he can't explain it, but it's like the town's calling to him. He wants to move there, but it'd put him over an hour outside of Portland where the nearest jobs are. Maybe if somebody chucked him like $100k to build a cabin in the woods; but what are the odds of that?

He does know Fiddleford. Truck broke down somewhere and Fiddleford kindly pulled over to fix it on the fly. They looked at each other, had mutual knee-jerk "dumb trucker/hillbilly" reactions, and within ten minutes both went "oh wait you're the most brilliant genius i've ever met." Fiddleford's living the same life he was in canon before Ford called him to Gravity Falls—with his family in California, trying to start a computer company out of his garage—but they make friends and keep in contact.

One time Ford stops at a kitschy roadside knickknack store that also sells new agey magic things—crystals, tarot cards, incense, etc. He bought a "lucky" rearview mirror ornament that looks like an Eye of Providence in a top hat and hung it from his cab fan, and ever since then he's had weird dreams whenever he sleeps in his truck.

Things I don't know yet: what Stan's up to; or why Ford's the one who got kicked out. I tend to believe that in canon Stan wasn't just kicked out because he ruined Ford's college prospects, but rather because the family thought he deliberately sabotaged Ford; so in this AU, Ford would've been kicked out over a proportionate crime.