One Headlight

One Headlight es una estupenda canción interpretada por la banda estadounidense The Wallflowers. La canción fue escrita por el cantante del grupo Jakob Dylan y fue lanzada en febrero de 1997 como segundo single del álbum Bringing Down the Horse. Recibió el Premio Grammy 1998 a la Mejor Canción de Rock y a la Mejor Interpretación de Dúo o Grupo. La canción, seguramente sea el mayor éxito que haya conseguido hasta ahora la banda norteamericana y su canción más conocida. Para mi es una de las mejores canciones que se han compuesto en los 90, que junto a una melodía y unos acordes muy pegadizos, la oscura y susurrante voz de Jakob Dylan, y esa mezcla de guitarras eléctricas y órganos que le hace tener un sonido tan único y especial, consiguen que por mucho que pase el tiempo siga sonando actual.

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

I seen the sun comin' 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 how she hung around this place

Hey, 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

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

And I seen the sun up ahead

At the county line bridge

Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead

We'll run until she's out of breath

She ran until there's nothin' left

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

Hey, 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

Well it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes

This place is always such a mess

Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn

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 dyin' dreams

I think her death it must be killin' me

Hey, hey, heyyyyy 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