This is a tough one to figure out - I think this song is much more personal for SW. It does have the recurring themes of reflecting on a love that had gone bad (like in a number of his other songs). This song is the closer to the 14-song cycle where SW has shown us all these traumatic "incidents" both personal and otherwise. I see "Drive the Hearse" as a metaphor for SW's songwriting - when he's feeling down, he writes these songs about these twisted things he sees, and he "Drives the Hearse" - with these stories about death and tragedy in tow (also ties into the song "the Incident", where "dead souls . . . hitch a ride a while"). Maybe stretching a bit, but it fits for me . . .
This is a tough one to figure out - I think this song is much more personal for SW. It does have the recurring themes of reflecting on a love that had gone bad (like in a number of his other songs). This song is the closer to the 14-song cycle where SW has shown us all these traumatic "incidents" both personal and otherwise. I see "Drive the Hearse" as a metaphor for SW's songwriting - when he's feeling down, he writes these songs about these twisted things he sees, and he "Drives the Hearse" - with these stories about death and tragedy in tow (also ties into the song "the Incident", where "dead souls . . . hitch a ride a while"). Maybe stretching a bit, but it fits for me . . .
Ya, Definitely agree with you.
Ya, Definitely agree with you.