Work Text:
Stream at vimeo or below the cut. Password is texas.
Available for download from my vids page.
Avenues
Know the cops here they can't run down to your house
Sometimes I'll sit and wish I were somewhere else
So let's dim the daylights for us sweethearts that we are
Sometimes I find myself still lying in your arms
All the sweethearts of the world
Are out dancing in the places
Where me and all my friends go to hide our faces
Avenues run one way
Streets they run the same
Something in the air here
Still keeps me away
(instrumental)
Though the cops here they can't take me to your house
I get directions and pretend I was somewhere else
All the sweethearts of the world are out littering the bars
And I am still avenues from any place you are
You know avenues run one way
The streets they run the same
It's going to take a lot of shit for me to stay away
About this vid
It was clear from my recipient's request that a Tim Riggins vid would be the most happy-making thing ever, and I wanted to make that come true.
I think this one came together when I realized that initially what Tim loves most, where he finds home most, is the combination of Texas and football; and football is his real sweetheart; and in the end, even when football isn't there for him anymore, Texas still is. It's like he and Jason and Lyla said in the very first episode: Texas forever.
I also really love the first "Avenues run one way / streets they run the same" as a metaphor for how whether it's Panthers or Lions, the centrality of football (arguably football mania) is parallel. And then on the second repeat of those lines, it becomes about the women in his life, Tyra and Lyla, and how no matter who he's with, the things which make him essentially Tim remain.