One Headlight

The Wallflowers

 

So long ago I don't remember when

That's when they said I lost my only friend

Well they said she died easy of a broke heart disease

As I listened through the cemetery trees

 

I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn

With the long broken arm of human law

Now it always seemed such a waste

She always had a pretty face

I wondered why she hung around this place

 

Hey-ey-ey

Come on try a little

Nothing is forever

Got to be something better than in the middle

 

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 be an opening

Somewhere here in front of me

 

Through this maze of ugliness and greed

And I've seen the sign up ahead at the county line bridge

Sayin' all is good and nothingness is dead

We run until she's out of breath

She ran until there's nothing left

She hit the end, just her window ledge

 

Hey-ey-ey

Come on try a little

Nothing is forever

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

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

 

Hey, hey, hey-ey-ey

Come on try a little

Nothing is forever

There's got to be something better than in the middle

 

Me and Cinderella

We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

Done