I feel like this could definitely be about a car wreck, but I don't think that the loved one was in the passenger seat, nor was this person lost. To me it sounds like the narrator of the song was in the passenger seat.
"I travel around the block and I'm not looking to my right"
(if she were in the passenger seat and not looking to her right she wouldn't see a car coming from that side)
"I feel the glass against my cheek and I can't see you in the light"
(when the car hit the headlights would have been blindingly bright, thus making her not see the driver as she was looking at her)
I think the beginning of this song (i.e. before the lines "I travel around the block," etc.) are meant to show how the two people involved are dealing with it differently as shown in the part,
"but it’s a different situation a different situation
you lay awake in the night just staring at the ceiling above
pulling pieces of it out is such a waste of time"
If the subject of the song was the driver, she would most likely be dealing with the situation in a much heavier way, blaming herself, etc.
And then in the following verse it feels to me like there is some sort of resolution:
"You wake up in the night and refuse to be afraid of it now.
Unfolding pieces of it faster don’t you waste your time."
It seems like the subject, or driver, wakes up in the night with some sort of revelation and finally talks about it (unfolding pieces of it... like telling a story).
p.s. If it turns out this song isn't about a crash, then I'm going to feel like a complete crazy person, haha.
I feel like this could definitely be about a car wreck, but I don't think that the loved one was in the passenger seat, nor was this person lost. To me it sounds like the narrator of the song was in the passenger seat. "I travel around the block and I'm not looking to my right" (if she were in the passenger seat and not looking to her right she wouldn't see a car coming from that side) "I feel the glass against my cheek and I can't see you in the light" (when the car hit the headlights would have been blindingly bright, thus making her not see the driver as she was looking at her)
I think the beginning of this song (i.e. before the lines "I travel around the block," etc.) are meant to show how the two people involved are dealing with it differently as shown in the part, "but it’s a different situation a different situation you lay awake in the night just staring at the ceiling above pulling pieces of it out is such a waste of time" If the subject of the song was the driver, she would most likely be dealing with the situation in a much heavier way, blaming herself, etc.
And then in the following verse it feels to me like there is some sort of resolution: "You wake up in the night and refuse to be afraid of it now. Unfolding pieces of it faster don’t you waste your time." It seems like the subject, or driver, wakes up in the night with some sort of revelation and finally talks about it (unfolding pieces of it... like telling a story).
p.s. If it turns out this song isn't about a crash, then I'm going to feel like a complete crazy person, haha.