So basically, the singer is driving to be with his baby; they have an almost psychic connection and he knows she misses him too.
This knowledge is making him reckless - "there's a voice in my head that drives my heel" (on the accelerator) - and he's been driving all night, so anxious that the wheel is covered in sweat.
He passes a long line of cars (presumably on a two-lane highway, from what comes next) and the last line we hear that's in the first-person voice is "Last car to pass, here I go!"
Then we go into an ending that twists earlier lines:
"And the line of cars drove down real slow" - a funeral procession
"And the newsman sang his same old song
One more Radar love has gone" - the singer has died in a car crash that was aired on the news, all before he got to see the lover he was driving towards.
It's a more subtle dead lover song than most, and it does have a great tune.
I like your analysis. In keeping with your thought, "all before he got to see the lover he was driving towards" I suspect that the, "line of cars drove down real slow" were people slowing down to look at the accident scene rather than an actual funeral procession.
I like your analysis. In keeping with your thought, "all before he got to see the lover he was driving towards" I suspect that the, "line of cars drove down real slow" were people slowing down to look at the accident scene rather than an actual funeral procession.
@Dubious Merit I think I agree with you mostly and the other reply about the cars going down real slow.
I read an interview with lead singer I think it was a long time ago. He was telling a radio jockey. I forget who now, what this song was about. the usual thought is telepathy and cb radios. he debunked that and I forget what he said it was really about but it may just be as you noted. Damn my bad memory.
Im an old truck driver and this sounds spot on to me.
@Dubious Merit I think I agree with you mostly and the other reply about the cars going down real slow.
I read an interview with lead singer I think it was a long time ago. He was telling a radio jockey. I forget who now, what this song was about. the usual thought is telepathy and cb radios. he debunked that and I forget what he said it was really about but it may just be as you noted. Damn my bad memory.
Im an old truck driver and this sounds spot on to me.
So basically, the singer is driving to be with his baby; they have an almost psychic connection and he knows she misses him too.
This knowledge is making him reckless - "there's a voice in my head that drives my heel" (on the accelerator) - and he's been driving all night, so anxious that the wheel is covered in sweat.
He passes a long line of cars (presumably on a two-lane highway, from what comes next) and the last line we hear that's in the first-person voice is "Last car to pass, here I go!"
Then we go into an ending that twists earlier lines: "And the line of cars drove down real slow" - a funeral procession "And the newsman sang his same old song One more Radar love has gone" - the singer has died in a car crash that was aired on the news, all before he got to see the lover he was driving towards.
It's a more subtle dead lover song than most, and it does have a great tune.
I like your analysis. In keeping with your thought, "all before he got to see the lover he was driving towards" I suspect that the, "line of cars drove down real slow" were people slowing down to look at the accident scene rather than an actual funeral procession.
I like your analysis. In keeping with your thought, "all before he got to see the lover he was driving towards" I suspect that the, "line of cars drove down real slow" were people slowing down to look at the accident scene rather than an actual funeral procession.
@Dubious Merit I think I agree with you mostly and the other reply about the cars going down real slow. I read an interview with lead singer I think it was a long time ago. He was telling a radio jockey. I forget who now, what this song was about. the usual thought is telepathy and cb radios. he debunked that and I forget what he said it was really about but it may just be as you noted. Damn my bad memory. Im an old truck driver and this sounds spot on to me.
@Dubious Merit I think I agree with you mostly and the other reply about the cars going down real slow. I read an interview with lead singer I think it was a long time ago. He was telling a radio jockey. I forget who now, what this song was about. the usual thought is telepathy and cb radios. he debunked that and I forget what he said it was really about but it may just be as you noted. Damn my bad memory. Im an old truck driver and this sounds spot on to me.