fv_poster | Gift for Dogstar by Kass (Friday Night Lights)

Title of vid: Avenues
Recipient: Dogstar
Vidder: Kass
Fandom: Friday Night Lights
Music: Avenues by Whiskeytown
Summary: Tim Riggins finds home in football... and in Texas.
Content notes: No standardized notes apply
Signed length: 02:26
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Lyrics
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

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

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From:

leanwellback

YOU MADE ME A TIM RIGGINS VID OMG I LOVE YOU. I may be crying right now, but you can't prove it. (Oh, who am I kidding, I'm totally crying.) That was gorgeous and ugh the song is so perfect and akfl;sjf;laj TIM. I love what you did with having the Panthers and the Lions on 'avenues' and 'streets' and then again with Lyla and Tyra the second time and just GAH this is perfect. I am going to watch it on repeat and hug it to my chest and cry some more ♥♥♥

PS Thank you for that last shot of him in his pants, it was much appreciated ;)

From:

kass

I'm so glad the vid made you happy!

And I'm glad the thing with the Panthers and Lions on "avenues" and "streets," and then again with Lyla and Tyra, came across the way I wanted it to.

Happy Festivids! It was a joy to vid for you.

From:

heresluck

I really love this. I love the song for Tim, and I especially love how "sweethearts" means both Lyla and Tyra (and eventually Becky) but the "you" of the song is football -- the game, the lights, the feeling of team, the sense of purpose that Tim struggles so hard to find after graduation. The vid just captures so much about him and his story. Gorgeous.

From:

kass

Thank you so much, honey -- and thank you for all of your help in making this vid (and its fellows) so much better than they otherwise would have been. OUR SHOW. ♥ ♥ ♥

From:

chaila

What a good character vid for Tim! I love how at the beginning it already feels nostalgic and a bit lost, and only then does it go back to the football. I loved that Tim did get to find his Texas forever post-football, even if he had to struggle so much to find it, and I love how this vid captures all of that.

From:

kass

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it -- and glad that the nostalgia / lost feeling came through, as well as the sense that Tim got to find his Texas forever in his own way.