Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck

okay it looks like the meat of the song has been hit on.. but there's a couple things i need clarification on because i'm stupid.

first off, the way the song starts out saying

you bid her fairwell then got in your car and that's the last thing you can recall

does that mean that he got in the wreck the day that he 'left' jane? so when he's in the hospital and thinking about all this, and the song says

she met him a week after you left her when you tossed her out.. etc

does that mean she makes the choice not to come see him before she hooks up with this guy, and therefore is just being mean? [what i'm saying is maybe the infliction of pain wasn't entirely one sided.. but that's probably not true] i mean yeah she would be hurting from the end of the relationship, but that close to the time that it happens, who DOESN'T want an excuse, deep down, to see that person again? and who wouldn't feel pain from knowing they were hurt? those emotions hang around for a while. so i'm just lost on the time-line here. it feels like there should've been a gap between the time he left her and the time he got in the car accident, unless he had hooked up with this 'hot' bitch before he left jane. i don't know i'm running in circles. someone clear up the timeline for me. thanks.

also, i'm still trying to figure out this 'newspaper gown' thing. i think people are probably right about it being 'cheap,' but when i hear it i actually think of a dress printed with newspaper headlines [which would sell like mad to scene kids ;x], and the part where it says

she visits you in your sleep but that newspaper gown is always on fire

makes me think that he dreams of her, but rather the dreams are nightmares, where the dress she wore when he met her is literally ON FIRE, because newspaper burns easy, etc, giving a sense of pain and seperation and overall shittiness. but i'm probably entirely wrong. i usually don't put this much work into interpretting songs. i'm just bored i guess.

heh. i was looking for stuff on 'newspaper gowns' [