This song has always seemed pretty simple to me, but I had an interesting thought about it the other day. I think the bridge of the song reveals that he got in an accident while driving drunk and maybe killed or injured his date. "Should've been the driver, could've been the one" could refer to how in many drunk driving accidents, the driver walks away fine but the passengers or others involved don't. "Should've been your lover, but I hadn't seen . . ." could refer to how they could have dated, but he didn't see whatever it was that he hit, leaving the sentence unfinished because the memory was too much for him. Could be wrong but I just thought it was interesting.
This song has always seemed pretty simple to me, but I had an interesting thought about it the other day. I think the bridge of the song reveals that he got in an accident while driving drunk and maybe killed or injured his date. "Should've been the driver, could've been the one" could refer to how in many drunk driving accidents, the driver walks away fine but the passengers or others involved don't. "Should've been your lover, but I hadn't seen . . ." could refer to how they could have dated, but he didn't see whatever it was that he hit, leaving the sentence unfinished because the memory was too much for him. Could be wrong but I just thought it was interesting.