The coat in the opening verse could be the same coat in "Time Flies" and, as stated in Time Flies how "The Coat You Wore to Alton Towers is still the way I see you now" - young, beautiful, optimistic. Now the coat is stained with life and we are all "driving our own hearses" because we may as well be dead if we are not enjoying the one and only life we have here on Earth.
The coat in the opening verse could be the same coat in "Time Flies" and, as stated in Time Flies how "The Coat You Wore to Alton Towers is still the way I see you now" - young, beautiful, optimistic. Now the coat is stained with life and we are all "driving our own hearses" because we may as well be dead if we are not enjoying the one and only life we have here on Earth.