Its about suicide. The idea that when life is too painful, too hard, it becomes very tempting to turn into oncoming traffic. The lights of the approaching car seem beautiful because they can take away the pain of life once and for all ("I'm so tired of all this fear"). The reason for this pain could also be lack of control in the writer's life, shown in that they want to be the proactive, rather than reactive force for once ("For once I want to be the car crash / Not always just the traffic jam"). The song also explains the often nightmarish quality that life can become, and expresses the desire to 'wake up' to something better ("Hit me hard enough to wake me"). The idea of submission to death is conveyed by the way in which the persona can't speak the pain, but it can only be seen through his/her eyes, whilst the redemptory quality of death is also expressed in the way the blood from the ripped bodies is falling into the character's mouth.
Its about suicide. The idea that when life is too painful, too hard, it becomes very tempting to turn into oncoming traffic. The lights of the approaching car seem beautiful because they can take away the pain of life once and for all ("I'm so tired of all this fear"). The reason for this pain could also be lack of control in the writer's life, shown in that they want to be the proactive, rather than reactive force for once ("For once I want to be the car crash / Not always just the traffic jam"). The song also explains the often nightmarish quality that life can become, and expresses the desire to 'wake up' to something better ("Hit me hard enough to wake me"). The idea of submission to death is conveyed by the way in which the persona can't speak the pain, but it can only be seen through his/her eyes, whilst the redemptory quality of death is also expressed in the way the blood from the ripped bodies is falling into the character's mouth.