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When Dean says those words at the end of the The Winchesters pilot & goes off driving Baby down that 2 lane road, I initially thought it meant he was driving Baby in Heaven & that Dean is talking to us during the drive he had in Heaven before Sam arrives. (Assuming 15x20 exists, tho it doesn’t)

Now I’m not so sure. Specially since I found out that every episode’s title is also the title of a song. Meaning, he’s picking the songs we’re listening to. Meaning Dean’s the driver, we’re riding shotgun & he’s driving the story however he sees fit.

In the beginning of the pilot Dean said the story might sound familiar “but I’m gonna put the pieces together in a way that just might surprise you.” This implies that there’s more than one way to put these pieces together. More than one version of the story.

We’re getting Dean’s version. The one he’s driving. The one where he’s picking the music & the music he pics is the ep we see.

Being the music obsessed nerd that I am, I decided to carefully listen to the song that gives each ep its title to see what it tells us about the characters, the episode, where the season is going, the SPN universe in general…

Let’s begin with the pilot.

Now the pilot doesn’t have a song title.

So I listened to the songs in it & I found one that I think is the equivalent.

I’d Love to Change the World by Ten Years Later.

We listen to this song twice in the episode.

This is song that’s playing when John steps off the bus. It’s our introduction to John, to this younger version of John that just got back from the war.

The song describes the counterrevolution, the older generation complaining about social changes, about “freaks & hairies”, “dykes & fairies”. It is what the singer refers to when he says “I’d like to change the world”.

I see John as both. This present John is one who wants to change the world, but doesn’t know what to do & yet the rest of the lyrics is who he will become, which is the opposite of what he wants in this moment.

Another thing I find interesting viewing this song as our introduction to John. Is the chorus.

I’d love to change the world / But I don’t know what to do / So I’ll leave it up to you

Which is what John did. He left it up to his children, specially Dean to change or save the world the way he couldn’t or didn’t know what to do.

We hear the song again at the end of the pilot when we see Dean next to Baby on that mysterious two lane road.

Now besides us riding shotgun & listening to this story Dean is driving, we hear this song, which makes me think he’s talking to someone else as well.

I mean, who delivered Henry’s letter to John? He wrote it in 2013 & gave it go Dean & Sam. Maybe it was Dean leaving it up to John to change their family’s story.