One Headlight by The Wallflowers

Intro

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Verse 1

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So long ago, I don't re-

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member when

That's

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when they say I lost my only

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friend

D/A

Well

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they said she died easy of a

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broken heart disease

As I

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listened through the cemetery

Bm

trees

D/A

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Bm

D/A

Verse 2

I seen the

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sun comin' up at the

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funeral at dawn

The

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long broken arm of human

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law

D/A

Now it

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always seemed such a waste, she

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always had a pretty face

So I

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wondered how she hung around this

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place

D/A

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Chorus 1

                    
                    Hey, 
                  
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                    come on try a little, 
                  
                    D
                  
                    Nothing is forever
                  
                    Em
                  
                    There's got to be something 
                  
                    A
                  
                    better than in the middle
                  
                    G
                  
                    But me and Cinderella 
                  
                    D
                  
                     We put it all together
                  
                    Em
                  
                     We can drive it home 
                  
                    A
                  
                     With one head-
                  
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                    light 
                  
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                    F#
                  
                    Bm
                  
                    D/A

Verse 3

                    
                    She said it's 
                  
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                    cold, It feels like Inde-
                  
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                    pendence Day
                  
                    And I 
                  
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                    can't break away from this pa-
                  
                    Bm
                  
                    rade 
                  
                    D/A
                  
                    But there's 
                  
                    G
                  
                    got to be an opening, 
                  
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                    Somewhere here in front of me
                  
                    F#
                  
                    Through this maze of ugliness and 
                  
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                    greed 
                  
                    D/A

Verse 4

And I seen the

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sun up ahead at the

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county line bridge

Sayin'

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all there's good and nothingness is

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dead

We'll

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run until she's out of breath, She

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ran until there's nothin' left

She

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hit the end, it's just her window

Bm

ledge

D/A

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F#

Chorus 2

                    
                    Hey, 
                  
                    G
                  
                    come on try a little, 
                  
                    D
                  
                    Nothing is forever
                  
                    Em
                  
                    There's got to be something 
                  
                    A
                  
                    better than in the middle
                  
                    G
                  
                    But me and Cinderella 
                  
                    D
                  
                     We put it all together
                  
                    Em
                  
                     We can drive it home 
                  
                    A
                  
                     With one headlight...

Solo

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Verse 5

                    
                    Well this place is 
                  
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                    old, It feels just like a 
                  
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                    beat up truck
                  
                    I turn the 
                  
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                    engine, but the engine doesn't 
                  
                    Bm
                  
                    turn 
                  
                    D/A
                  
                    Well it smells of 
                  
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                    cheap wine, cigarettes, This 
                  
                    D
                  
                    place is always such a mess
                  
                    Some-
                  
                    F#
                  
                    times I think I'd like to watch it 
                  
                    Bm
                  
                    burn 
                  
                    D/A

Verse 6

I'm so a-

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lone and I feel just like some-

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body else

Man, I ain't

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changed, but I know I ain't the

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same

D/A

But

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somewhere here in between the

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city walls of dyin' dreams

I

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think of death, it must be killin'

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me

D/A

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F#

Chorus 3

                    
                    Hey, hey Hey, 
                  
                    G
                  
                    come on try a little, 
                  
                    D
                  
                    Nothing is forever
                  
                    Em
                  
                    There's got to be something 
                  
                    A
                  
                    better than in the middle
                  
                    G
                  
                    But me and Cinderella 
                  
                    D
                  
                     We put it all together
                  
                    Em
                  
                     We can drive it home 
                  
                    A
                  
                     With one headlight...

Outro

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