It's definitely about a friend with a heroin addiction. Really quite sad, because now, it's almost autobiographical. Shannon's life was parallel with his friends. And unfortunately he was taken and there was a last time that we were "gonna look at you". It makes me very sad that he couldn't be helped. So much potential, "in 5 lifetimes, hell, i couldn't do em' all".
And for me the meaning of drive is hidden by the car ideas projected through the song. I believe he means "drive the spike". Train "tracks" like "track marks" are driven by "spikes" a.k.a. "needles". He is askin' the narrator of the song to shoot up with him. At least that's how I see it.
It's definitely about a friend with a heroin addiction. Really quite sad, because now, it's almost autobiographical. Shannon's life was parallel with his friends. And unfortunately he was taken and there was a last time that we were "gonna look at you". It makes me very sad that he couldn't be helped. So much potential, "in 5 lifetimes, hell, i couldn't do em' all".
And for me the meaning of drive is hidden by the car ideas projected through the song. I believe he means "drive the spike". Train "tracks" like "track marks" are driven by "spikes" a.k.a. "needles". He is askin' the narrator of the song to shoot up with him. At least that's how I see it.