If you watch the video as well as listen to the song you see there are purposely multiple meanings to this song because he is going through a metamorphosis of who he is. You see and hear this feeling of regret as well as a metaphorical need to "Swim Good" he has the regrets and pain (Hearts in his Trunk) with him and as he has been shackles to the shoes and suit he wears to the empending funeral of his old self. When he drives his car into the water he is leaving all of that at the bottom of the sea and letting the waves wash over him as he removes the past (shoes and suit) so that he may swim good. He uses the audiotune of Kanye from his 808 heartbreak album and uses references to that in order to decribe the pain. At the very end the sing you hear seagulls and peaceful waves so that you know he saw good and after struggling to see if he actually wanted to do this change. He is finally at peace with the man that he was and will be
If you watch the video as well as listen to the song you see there are purposely multiple meanings to this song because he is going through a metamorphosis of who he is. You see and hear this feeling of regret as well as a metaphorical need to "Swim Good" he has the regrets and pain (Hearts in his Trunk) with him and as he has been shackles to the shoes and suit he wears to the empending funeral of his old self. When he drives his car into the water he is leaving all of that at the bottom of the sea and letting the waves wash over him as he removes the past (shoes and suit) so that he may swim good. He uses the audiotune of Kanye from his 808 heartbreak album and uses references to that in order to decribe the pain. At the very end the sing you hear seagulls and peaceful waves so that you know he saw good and after struggling to see if he actually wanted to do this change. He is finally at peace with the man that he was and will be