The Wallflowers - One Headlight

The Wallflowers es una banda formada en Los Ángeles (EE. UU.) a principios de los 90, compuesta por el vocalista y guitarrista Jakob Dylan (hijo de Bob Dylan), Fred Eltringham (batería), Rami Jaffee (teclado) y Greg Richling (bajo). Practican un rock honesto, con baladas hábiles y perspicaces y fuertes pinceladas de soul.
En 1996 editan Bringing Down the Horse, que consigue en gran éxito en las emisoras independientes con 6th Avenue Heartache; y a finales de 1996, se edita el single One Headlight el cual consiguió llegar a la cima de las listas de ventas. "Bringing Down the Horse"Bruce Springsteen en los MTV Video Music Awards de 1997.

Probablemente sea el ejemplo de un buen artista que tiene que demostrar siempre el doble que los demás, por ser hijo de su padre. Si bien es evidente que Jakob no llega al nivel de "papá Bob", es innegable que a partir de su talento (y el de sus compañeros de ruta) logró hacerse un merecido lugar en el mundo de la música. les vaió dos premios Grammy, uno por Mejor Interpretación Vocal de un Duo o Grupo de Rock y otro por Vocal en "One Headlight". Este single alcanzó el segundo lugar de las listas y lo cantaron junto con

The Wallflowers
One Headlight

So long ago I don't remember when
That's when they say I lost my only friend
They said she died easy of a broken heart disease
As I listened through the cemetery trees

I seen the sun coming up at the funeral at dawn
The long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed like such a waste
She always had a pretty face
I wondered why 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
Me and Cinderella
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
I see the sign up ahead
At the county line bridge
Saying all there's good and nothingness is dead
Run until she's out of breath
She ran until there's nothing 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
Me and Cinderella
Put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

This place is old
It feels just like a beat up truck
I turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn
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 these city walls of dying dreams
I think her death it must be killing me

Hey, hey, hey come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better than
In the middle
Me and Cinderella
Put it all together
We can drive it home
With one headlight

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