I never thought about the whole possession/possession angle -- I love it!
I generally assumed that the narrator was being taken from court to prison after being found guilty. I interpreted "Big bus headed southeast from the courthouse/But I'm not headed southeast from the courthouse" to mean, essentially, in the narrator's mind, "no, this isn't supposed to be happening, I'm not suposed to go to jail." He's been convicted and all that jazz, but he had other plans for himself.
I never thought about the whole possession/possession angle -- I love it!
I generally assumed that the narrator was being taken from court to prison after being found guilty. I interpreted "Big bus headed southeast from the courthouse/But I'm not headed southeast from the courthouse" to mean, essentially, in the narrator's mind, "no, this isn't supposed to be happening, I'm not suposed to go to jail." He's been convicted and all that jazz, but he had other plans for himself.