Lost my soulmate two years ago. Just trying to find a new home now, but nothing feels right. Maybe I am not ever meant to have a new life. The other head light is in danger of going out.
My interpretation of the song has expanded to believe that the headlights represents two people who care for each other very much (family members, platonic or romantic). Only one is now alive... one headlight. The one living will carry the memory of what they both had together alive, and drive it home with one headlight until his time comes, too. on int meaning
@@jenniferbacon6837 I'm so sorry to hear about your soulmate passing :( stuff like that just breaks my heart! My condolences go out to you, I hope you're doing well. I had a soulmate once, she passed away about 4 years ago in August (It may sound silly to some, but she was a rat) The bond we had was something I'll never experience again, I've missed her every day since
Life is all about making changes that can be really hard to make! I have been through some tough stuff in my life that has shaped who I am as a person and as a woman today. I maybe weak in mind and emotions but I am humble in heart and that gets me in trouble being an adult now.
Jenn, thank you. This was my wife Erin and my song, we were married in March 98, couple of stupid kids with a baby on the way no plan for the future. But this song right here, and what that one headlight meant, pretty much defined the first couple years of our marriage. Sadly, we ended our marriage this year but I really love this song and the good memories that it brings back when I hear it. Because it was those years that we only had one headlight, we were the closest. When Love is the only thing that mattered. God bless E. C.
This song hits home. To me hes talking about a girl he lost. The funeral in the first verse is a metaphor to the breakup. He always felt he didnt deserve her cause he couldnt give her what she wanted in life. (I wonder why she hung around this place) she is sick of the mediocre life (theres gotta be something better than in the middle) They tried hard to make it work and couldnt. They failed so much she was to the point of suicide (she hit the end, its just her window ledge) She left him and he sits alone where they used to live. They are strangers again. Her death once again is a metaphor because he is grieving a living person. The chorus is him saying they did so much together with so many memories...and even tho their relationship is over and broken, hes willing to take her back and finish life together with her, even though they are broken. They will still make it home...even with one headlight.
I too am curious about would what was in the mind of the writer creating these lyrics. That said, in every art form the audience brings its own interpretation to the work. Art is supposed to be subjective. This is what makes it a personal experience. When you have a song that is obvious and superficial, it detracts from the experience. I really appreciate the ambiguity here. It's an example of what songwriters should be aiming for. Indeed, every aspect of this song is absolutely brilliant. The guitars, bass, drums, vocals, and that little organ in there, are simply perfect. So simple yet so great. There is nothing to add and nothing to take out. 25 years on, this song is as good as the day of release-exquisitely crafted, immortal, perfect. That's all I have.
Whatever the writer might have had in mind is not the point. Observe that no mention is made of specific names and times and places. About all we know is that someone died. In this way anyone who knows someone who died can listen to the music in the context of their own lives. This is the correct and appropriate application of art. A painting that precisely duplicates what the eye would see is not art any more than a photocopy is art. Art is the most subjective thing there is.
This song always grounds me, when I feel like absolutely sobbing. It brings a sense of peace and allows me to cry, when I think about my beloved father who is dead.
Sameeee omg. My dad was killed by a drunk driver and ejected from the sunroof of his car. He was 47. I spoke to him about 5 minutes before his accident. It was Halloween night. 3 minutes away from home. Miss you dad♥️😔 Life will never be the same without you. We will meet soon😭♥️
This song came along when my mom died, barely an adult. None of my friends had dead parents, so marcinda would drive me in the back country roads so fk up…all I ever wanted was my mom back. Almost 30yrs later, all I have are memories. RIP. Glad I had a friend, who broke the laws to keep driving and picking me up the cemetery where my mama was
I was like 9 when this came out or I discovered this song I have always loved this. And even at 9 the one line that always stuck to me "I sit alone and I feel just like somebody else Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same" 26 years later I'm listening to this song word for word this is my song for my brother I miss you baby boy ❤
This feels like a crying out plead. He knows what it's like to have to go through losing someone to suicide. The chorus is just begging you to hang on. "Come on, try a little. Nothing is forever." It's telling you to keep going, try for more ("there's got to be something better than in the middle"). He keeps her memory alive (cinderella, whoever she is), to urge us to life. But, as he describes her life, we have sympathy for her and why she did what she did. Everybody has to die someday, nothing lasts forever, but try to keep going so nobody has to drive home with one headlight.
That or much more. Just lost my soulmate addiction at first but his poor body was dying of cancer he didn't tell me made excuses why the cancer center was calling him.. found him half alive last month did everything I could so traumatic he knew but I didn't 😢 This song kills me. Cry I think it's called by guns and roses he played me that night (we loved music) 5 hours later he passed..
The song is a metaphor for the death of America on a psychological level for whatever reason that was going on at the time that it was written for the songwriter. But nevertheless this song can be interpreted on a more personal level speaking to someone who new somebody, a friend, and the story of their death by suicide. Most people not knowing about the symbolic thing going on here in this song interprets it more personally like I do and are deeply moved by the evocative narration and imagery in the lyrics concerning the death of a friend as it clearly states in the beginning. A lot of people have experienced some kind of loss of a friend in their lives and this is where the real heart of this song lies for me. One is free to interpret it as one may.
"metaphor for the death of America on a psychological level .." what are you babbling about? that was the golden age of America. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and before 9/11 was the longest period of peace and prosperity, freedom and optimism the country has ever seen...the *only* time in living memory that we didn't have at least one sword of Damocles hanging over our head. The closest parallel might be the roaring 20s .. but w/less isolationism and quasi-fascist paranoia. The guy was talking about a very personal tragedy. thats it.
@@jv-lk7bc yes I altogether agree with your last sentence as I clearly indicated in my original post here, but for some reason it has been said that the song is a metaphor of some kind hence the official music video with a sort of American flag and a black hearse.
@@jv-lk7bc you're incorrect. Jacob Dylan himself said "The song's meaning is all in the first verse. It's about the death of ideas. The first verse says, 'The death of the long broken arm of human law.' At times, it seems like there should be a code among human beings that is about respect and appreciation."
Thank you for making this video with correct lyrics. I’m Japanese and not native speaker of English. I’m sorry about my broken English. May I ask you some question? What would you think if I added “it”and “of” to the chorus? Does the sentence “There’s got to be something better than it in the middle of me and Cinderella” make sense? Or “in the middle” is the object of “than”, and “ Me and Cinderella” are the subject of “put it all together”?
The world this hails from is long dead, if indeed it ever truly existed. The sad thing is just how melancholic and surreal this thinks it is in retrospect, huh? It really would make a person think. If thinking truly mattered all that much, anyway.
I'm waiting for someone to come rescue me, knowing that I will take some major losses, but if I keep fighting for the world outside this home, I'll likely lose everything I've ever cared about including her. I've tried everything else 😢
@@TheOneRini was so scared i would get pulled over. but i got lucky there was no cops. and also i was in the countryside. it was like 2 AM too. pretty dangerous in the country. because you're the only person driving around at 2 AM and the cops are super bored. so you'll usually get pulled over for anything
Wow this is actually the correct lyrics when so many others if not all other lyric videos of this song get a number of things incorrect. Back a couple of years ago I mentioned 3 common mistakes in the comment section on one of these lyric videos to this song. Thank you. p.s Was I the guy who inspired you to post these correct lyrics to this song?
You're wrong, go watch the official music video. There is a kind of dark version of the American flag, along with a hearse in it. The song is a metaphor for the death of America. Number two the sun can't say ("saying") anything but a sign can. It's a quote from the sign "saying". Now of course you can interpret it any way you want, but at least give the official music video a chance. I do agree though that the song can be taken on a more personal level about someone a friend who has died possibly by suicide. But it is not sun but sign in the lyrics.
@@grosbeak6130I've always struggled with the interpretation of this song. I see the drug references and a death due to overdose. But, there's the reference to the window ledge that leads one to believe the death was by suicide...
This is a song of a jockey and a race horse that runs a furlong further than it is physically made for. The filly that lost her stride at Saratoga in a 7 furlong race who lost for the first time and lost her life in August 2023
@@KoryHunter2388 Thanks for the reply. "Seedy" fits the context of the place being described and no part of the song suggests an urban setting, not that it has to I suppose. Do you have access to an authoritative source, such as the lyrics as submitted for copyright?
What type of runner and what was payday commission. You job bring cash register money. Stumbling drunk cash register. Keep trying to say something. To who email.
Lost my love of 44 years; nothing lasts forever, and now I'm trying to make it home with "One Headlight."
Well it seems like 10 years of marriage was not enough for hime anf he just left me so im trying to make home with one headlight too
Lost my soulmate two years ago. Just trying to find a new home now, but nothing feels right. Maybe I am not ever meant to have a new life. The other head light is in danger of going out.
My interpretation of the song has expanded to believe that the headlights represents two people who care for each other very much (family members, platonic or romantic). Only one is now alive... one headlight. The one living will carry the memory of what they both had together alive, and drive it home with one headlight until his time comes, too. on int meaning
Same IMS
I love your thoughts on this song I feel the same way my soulmate passed away almost 3 years ago in Nov.
@@jenniferbacon6837 I'm so sorry to hear about your soulmate passing :( stuff like that just breaks my heart! My condolences go out to you, I hope you're doing well.
I had a soulmate once, she passed away about 4 years ago in August (It may sound silly to some, but she was a rat) The bond we had was something I'll never experience again, I've missed her every day since
@@crane7354 God has given and God has taken away.
Life is all about making changes that can be really hard to make!
I have been through some tough stuff in my life that has shaped who I am as a person and as a woman today.
I maybe weak in mind and emotions but I am humble in heart and that gets me in trouble being an adult now.
Classic, Never get tired of hearing this song.
Jenn, thank you. This was my wife Erin and my song, we were married in March 98, couple of stupid kids with a baby on the way no plan for the future. But this song right here, and what that one headlight meant, pretty much defined the first couple years of our marriage. Sadly, we ended our marriage this year but I really love this song and the good memories that it brings back when I hear it. Because it was those years that we only had one headlight, we were the closest. When Love is the only thing that mattered.
God bless
E. C.
I second that! Absolutely
Yesterday i found the name of this song..love it. 24/11/24, and still listening..
This song hits home. To me hes talking about a girl he lost. The funeral in the first verse is a metaphor to the breakup. He always felt he didnt deserve her cause he couldnt give her what she wanted in life. (I wonder why she hung around this place) she is sick of the mediocre life (theres gotta be something better than in the middle)
They tried hard to make it work and couldnt. They failed so much she was to the point of suicide (she hit the end, its just her window ledge)
She left him and he sits alone where they used to live. They are strangers again. Her death once again is a metaphor because he is grieving a living person.
The chorus is him saying they did so much together with so many memories...and even tho their relationship is over and broken, hes willing to take her back and finish life together with her, even though they are broken. They will still make it home...even with one headlight.
Great interpretation. I love this angle. Thanks for sharing
I too am curious about would what was in the mind of the writer creating these lyrics. That said, in every art form the audience brings its own interpretation to the work. Art is supposed to be subjective. This is what makes it a personal experience.
When you have a song that is obvious and superficial, it detracts from the experience. I really appreciate the ambiguity here. It's an example of what songwriters should be aiming for.
Indeed, every aspect of this song is absolutely brilliant. The guitars, bass, drums, vocals, and that little organ in there, are simply perfect. So simple yet so great. There is nothing to add and nothing to take out. 25 years on, this song is as good as the day of release-exquisitely crafted, immortal, perfect. That's all I have.
😊😊😊
art is not subjective, and if it is, its bad art.
This is not subjective, its a very straightforward story
Whatever the writer might have had in mind is not the point. Observe that no mention is made of specific names and times and places. About all we know is that someone died. In this way anyone who knows someone who died can listen to the music in the context of their own lives. This is the correct and appropriate application of art. A painting that precisely duplicates what the eye would see is not art any more than a photocopy is art. Art is the most subjective thing there is.
That's what I was going to say🙄😉
Well if I were able to express my perceptions or thoughts as good as you that's what I would've said
The apple didn't fall very far from the tree! You can hear his father in there...
No one here seems to realize he's Dylan's son. Talk about being a poet. The lyrics to the song are not a disappointment. Amazing
No one knows who his father is? I think everyone does.
@@philm.6113 I just learned this today and been listening to this song for over 20 years
Wait, the lead singer is Bob Dylan's son?? I didn't know that!
This song always grounds me, when I feel like absolutely sobbing. It brings a sense of peace and allows me to cry, when I think about my beloved father who is dead.
I have a very similar reaction to this song. ❤
Sameeee omg. My dad was killed by a drunk driver and ejected from the sunroof of his car. He was 47. I spoke to him about 5 minutes before his accident. It was Halloween night. 3 minutes away from home. Miss you dad♥️😔 Life will never be the same without you. We will meet soon😭♥️
So sorry to here. God bless u, until u meet with him again😇🙏❤️
So sorry you had to go through that 😢
Believing in Christ will help you see him again.❤
'I think her death, it must be killing me' - such an emotional lyric.
This song came along when my mom died, barely an adult. None of my friends had dead parents, so marcinda would drive me in the back country roads so fk up…all I ever wanted was my mom back. Almost 30yrs later, all I have are memories. RIP. Glad I had a friend, who broke the laws to keep driving and picking me up the cemetery where my mama was
The summer of1999 in the California Central Valley with the love of my life.
I miss her so.😥
Always hear this song on Radio but did not know the band or singer, found it on RUclips by accident, Love this song
This Song Takes Me Back to 1997 LOL.
I was like 9 when this came out or I discovered this song I have always loved this. And even at 9 the one line that always stuck to me "I sit alone and I feel just like somebody else
Man, I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same" 26 years later I'm listening to this song word for word this is my song for my brother I miss you baby boy ❤
Thank you Jenn for letting the song play all the way thru - everyone else cuts it off
This is one of my favorite songs
How it is music thearpy
Music helps me
This feels like a crying out plead. He knows what it's like to have to go through losing someone to suicide. The chorus is just begging you to hang on. "Come on, try a little. Nothing is forever." It's telling you to keep going, try for more ("there's got to be something better than in the middle"). He keeps her memory alive (cinderella, whoever she is), to urge us to life. But, as he describes her life, we have sympathy for her and why she did what she did. Everybody has to die someday, nothing lasts forever, but try to keep going so nobody has to drive home with one headlight.
That or much more. Just lost my soulmate addiction at first but his poor body was dying of cancer he didn't tell me made excuses why the cancer center was calling him.. found him half alive last month did everything I could so traumatic he knew but I didn't 😢 This song kills me. Cry I think it's called by guns and roses he played me that night (we loved music) 5 hours later he passed..
Wow...the best song ever.
Courage the cowardly dog...your message meant everything to me. Thankyou💝
(Queen of pentacles)
Pls more context
thank you Jenn for doing this.
Wonderful song. I love your Forum Jenn. Thank you for being beautiful :)
Love this song and the way it's done
“Drive it home, with one headlight”….
Home sounds like Heaven to me😊
The song is a metaphor for the death of America on a psychological level for whatever reason that was going on at the time that it was written for the songwriter. But nevertheless this song can be interpreted on a more personal level speaking to someone who new somebody, a friend, and the story of their death by suicide. Most people not knowing about the symbolic thing going on here in this song interprets it more personally like I do and are deeply moved by the evocative narration and imagery in the lyrics concerning the death of a friend as it clearly states in the beginning. A lot of people have experienced some kind of loss of a friend in their lives and this is where the real heart of this song lies for me. One is free to interpret it as one may.
"metaphor for the death of America on a psychological level .." what are you babbling about? that was the golden age of America.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and before 9/11 was the longest period of peace and prosperity, freedom and optimism the country has ever seen...the *only* time in living memory that we didn't have at least one sword of Damocles hanging over our head.
The closest parallel might be the roaring 20s .. but w/less isolationism and quasi-fascist paranoia.
The guy was talking about a very personal tragedy. thats it.
@@jv-lk7bc yes I altogether agree with your last sentence as I clearly indicated in my original post here, but for some reason it has been said that the song is a metaphor of some kind hence the official music video with a sort of American flag and a black hearse.
@@jv-lk7bc you're incorrect. Jacob Dylan himself said "The song's meaning is all in the first verse. It's about the death of ideas. The first verse says, 'The death of the long broken arm of human law.' At times, it seems like there should be a code among human beings that is about respect and appreciation."
@@jv-lk7bc Everyone has a right to their own interpretation
Mr.Ballen video on RUclips talks about the story this song is based on..pretty interesting
I’ve been looking for the name to this song and finally found it 😀
Me too. 👍
@@Michaelaaj With One Headlight
Nice job. Thank you for the correct lyrics! ❤
Good quality upload, thank you.
Great famous lyrics love it
nicely.done, jenn blue
"Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease as I listened through the cemetery trees..." 😊
One Headlight. Two people with a singular vision.
Fuck yeah
Thank you for making this video with correct lyrics.
I’m Japanese and not native speaker of English.
I’m sorry about my broken English.
May I ask you some question?
What would you think if I added “it”and “of” to the chorus?
Does the sentence “There’s got to be something better than it in the middle of me and Cinderella” make sense?
Or “in the middle” is the object of “than”, and “ Me and Cinderella” are the subject of “put it all together”?
i just watched the unbearable weight of massive talent
All the various interpretations are proof of life
RIP Shannon Dennis ❤️ ❤️
@luta2100 I Believe Your Right because I lived it and the one survived with only the good time memories of Us 💖 2024
SONG IS A LIGHTER for a fire. FIRE IS EVERYTHING THAT GUVES IFE.
Pete Davidson brings it back! LOVE IT!
I believe the song is about thriving to make it to Heaven❤
Back when music was good.
Music and the ppl
Come on, try a little. Nothing is forever... Damn right.
The world this hails from is long dead, if indeed it ever truly existed. The sad thing is just how melancholic and surreal this thinks it is in retrospect, huh? It really would make a person think. If thinking truly mattered all that much, anyway.
Wut?
@@michaelharton7869 If you have to ask, you're lost.
I'm waiting for someone to come rescue me, knowing that I will take some major losses, but if I keep fighting for the world outside this home, I'll likely lose everything I've ever cared about including her. I've tried everything else 😢
Bersyukur apa yang ada, jalan terus walau dengan satu lampu untuk ke destinasi seterusnya...
Hell of a song !!! Better impossible.
Thank You!!!
I have a “padiddle” a one headlight, for a while now.
It’s going to take some rewiring of the electrical system for it to work again lol
this is my favorite song. write that on my grave
I don’t remember where I heard that this song was written for one of his close friends who had or passed from breast cancer
That's me, the one with one headlight. Here call it open third eye, opened up pineal gland, but I think of it as Catholic illumination.
2023 saludos desde El Salvador
i drove it home with 0 headlights once
Good you made it to your destination
Wait why did I laugh 💀that’s scary-
@@miguelg2650 my lights on my truck burned out I don't know how or why. but luckily I made it home safely. and luckily there was no cops around
@@jf752ah the same thing happened to me back in 2022 except I did get pulled over lmao
@@TheOneRini was so scared i would get pulled over. but i got lucky there was no cops. and also i was in the countryside. it was like 2 AM too. pretty dangerous in the country. because you're the only person driving around at 2 AM and the cops are super bored. so you'll usually get pulled over for anything
HEY HEY HEEEEEYYYyyyyyyyyyy
Hey's For Horses.
Wow this is actually the correct lyrics when so many others if not all other lyric videos of this song get a number of things incorrect. Back a couple of years ago I mentioned 3 common mistakes in the comment section on one of these lyric videos to this song. Thank you.
p.s
Was I the guy who inspired you to post these correct lyrics to this song?
RIP *Kelly Downs* 1984-2020
Por desgracia, y aunque es una canción relativamente joven, ya no se hacen canciones así.
Always thought it was a Robbie Robertson song. I sit corrected.
One dead light - the long arm of the human lawn LOL
Man I ain't changed, but I know I ain't the same....
Nothing IS forever .
I love this song, did not understand the meaning.. im still confused…
I think it's about a love dying not a person...weird how people interpret things different...to each!
Jakob Dylan is such a freaking narcissist but shit this is one of the all-timers, this is the only way to watch this on OOTOOB
💛💯
It’s SUN up ahead at the county line bridge…not sign…and it’s talking about the death (suicide) of a friend
You're wrong, go watch the official music video. There is a kind of dark version of the American flag, along with a hearse in it. The song is a metaphor for the death of America. Number two the sun can't say ("saying") anything but a sign can. It's a quote from the sign "saying". Now of course you can interpret it any way you want, but at least give the official music video a chance.
I do agree though that the song can be taken on a more personal level about someone a friend who has died possibly by suicide. But it is not sun but sign in the lyrics.
How can a sun say, "all is good and nothingness is dead"? Suns don't say anything but signs do...
@@grosbeak6130I've always struggled with the interpretation of this song. I see the drug references and a death due to overdose. But, there's the reference to the window ledge that leads one to believe the death was by suicide...
this song destroys me and gives me hope
0:22
This is a song of a jockey and a race horse that runs a furlong further than it is physically made for. The filly that lost her stride at Saratoga in a 7 furlong race who lost for the first time and lost her life in August 2023
My opinion is it represents the Hollywood industry. Bring t home with one headlight is what it represents. Just a thought....🤔
I wrote it. It's about addiction and suicide. L.ol
I heard that this song is a tribute to River Phoenix but can't understand the connection
Hahahah play it again I solute that car😂😂😂😂😂😂
Uh, I believe the correct lyric is "seedy walls" not "city walls" - Jakob??
It’s city walls. 🤣
@@KoryHunter2388 Thanks for the reply. "Seedy" fits the context of the place being described and no part of the song suggests an urban setting, not that it has to I suppose. Do you have access to an authoritative source, such as the lyrics as submitted for copyright?
@@warrenhallila5612 search it up
go to the official music video and look carefully at the environment. It's "city".
My gospel as it is change nothing. I love you.
one headlight with maxwell house in hand!
HUMAN LAW
D'ey..
What type of runner and what was payday commission.
You job bring cash register money.
Stumbling drunk cash register. Keep trying to say something. To who email.
What a jerk...so whos crazy but i love her id never run from here?
I don't think your gonna like the answer...so I'll stay quiet
This is such a horribly bland song
W😑🤘