My festivid (signed and remastered)
Title: Last Chance Texaco
Artist: Ricki Lee Jones
Fandom Caprica (episodes 1-13)
Characters Graystones
Warnings: Flashing lights, self harm, suicidal ideation
Format: DivX
Size: 49.1 MB
Summary: She’s not there
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Last Chance Texaco is a strange song. Powerful - it stays with you, stayed with me 30 years. It’s all essence of torch singer at the bitter end of a long and winding career but Jones was what 23? Probably younger when she wrote it and there’s something wrong about that. Maybe it is just a song about a car after all.
I had the idea for using it in a Caprica vid (woman = machine, I am nothing if not obvious) about two days before the festivid assignments came in and when Caprica was mine, I was very happy. Initially I could see Amanda all through the first verse and the lyrics for the second were very, very Daniel but I couldn’t see how to connect the two or end it until I read Sabaceanbabe’s letter asking for Zoe. Zoe, absence of Zoe, the missing piece. Zoe-Amanda, Zoe-Daniel, Daniel-Amanda. So that’s what I did.
A long stretch of headlights
Bends into I-9
Tiptoe into truck stops
And sleepy diesel eyes
Volcanoes rumble in the taxi
And glow in the dark
Camels in the driver's seat
A slow, easy mark
But you ran out of gas
Down the road a piece
Then the battery went dead
And now the cable won't reach...
It's your last chance
To check under the hood
Last chance
She ain't soundin' too good,
Your last chance
To trust the man with the star
You've found the last chance Texaco
Well, he tried to be Standard
He tried to be Mobil
He tried living in a world
And in a Shell
There was this block-busted blonde
He loved her - free parts and labor
But she broke down and died
And threw all the rods he gave her
But this one ain't fuel-injected
Her plug's disconnected
She gets scared and she stalls
She just needs a man, that's all
It's her last chance
Her timing's all wrong
Her last chance
She can't idle this long
Her last chance
Turn her over and go
Pullin' out of the last chance Texaco
The last chance
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Artist: Ricki Lee Jones
Fandom Caprica (episodes 1-13)
Characters Graystones
Warnings: Flashing lights, self harm, suicidal ideation
Format: DivX
Size: 49.1 MB
Summary: She’s not there
Click to viewDownload from here (Right/control click and save target as)
Last Chance Texaco is a strange song. Powerful - it stays with you, stayed with me 30 years. It’s all essence of torch singer at the bitter end of a long and winding career but Jones was what 23? Probably younger when she wrote it and there’s something wrong about that. Maybe it is just a song about a car after all.
I had the idea for using it in a Caprica vid (woman = machine, I am nothing if not obvious) about two days before the festivid assignments came in and when Caprica was mine, I was very happy. Initially I could see Amanda all through the first verse and the lyrics for the second were very, very Daniel but I couldn’t see how to connect the two or end it until I read Sabaceanbabe’s letter asking for Zoe. Zoe, absence of Zoe, the missing piece. Zoe-Amanda, Zoe-Daniel, Daniel-Amanda. So that’s what I did.
A long stretch of headlights
Bends into I-9
Tiptoe into truck stops
And sleepy diesel eyes
Volcanoes rumble in the taxi
And glow in the dark
Camels in the driver's seat
A slow, easy mark
But you ran out of gas
Down the road a piece
Then the battery went dead
And now the cable won't reach...
It's your last chance
To check under the hood
Last chance
She ain't soundin' too good,
Your last chance
To trust the man with the star
You've found the last chance Texaco
Well, he tried to be Standard
He tried to be Mobil
He tried living in a world
And in a Shell
There was this block-busted blonde
He loved her - free parts and labor
But she broke down and died
And threw all the rods he gave her
But this one ain't fuel-injected
Her plug's disconnected
She gets scared and she stalls
She just needs a man, that's all
It's her last chance
Her timing's all wrong
Her last chance
She can't idle this long
Her last chance
Turn her over and go
Pullin' out of the last chance Texaco
The last chance
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