I was very intrigued by this song and studied it in depth, tossed around numerous possibilities, but kept coming back to a child and his father having a rocky relationship. I believe it was abusive, considering that the child needed to keep his "snout" shut. I also believe he got his dad in trouble by saying this secret, and as the song says, is pleading for another chance. I don't know if this song directly correlates to Drew's life, but it could, considering he has never had a story book relationship with his father, and credits songs to parental and marital problems. Moving on in the song, I believe that the person on the side of the road was like a savior, someone who truly loved him and gave him what he needed, all he wanted, which was love. This could be personification though. I briefly thought that maybe this person was drugs, maybe ecstacy. Ecstacy is metioned in Time Travel, and has Drew has been known to do drugs. Either way, I felt that overall the song was a tribute to two relationships the narrator has had, one his father, and the other a loving savior, whether it be drugs, a partner, or a new father figure that took him in when his dad got bored of him and disowned him ("I should've seen the boredom in your eyes", and "I can't believe you left me for dead man" indicate that the narrator's father got bored of him, or bored of his son's betrayal because he is a "loud man" and left him after simple goodbyes).
I was very intrigued by this song and studied it in depth, tossed around numerous possibilities, but kept coming back to a child and his father having a rocky relationship. I believe it was abusive, considering that the child needed to keep his "snout" shut. I also believe he got his dad in trouble by saying this secret, and as the song says, is pleading for another chance. I don't know if this song directly correlates to Drew's life, but it could, considering he has never had a story book relationship with his father, and credits songs to parental and marital problems. Moving on in the song, I believe that the person on the side of the road was like a savior, someone who truly loved him and gave him what he needed, all he wanted, which was love. This could be personification though. I briefly thought that maybe this person was drugs, maybe ecstacy. Ecstacy is metioned in Time Travel, and has Drew has been known to do drugs. Either way, I felt that overall the song was a tribute to two relationships the narrator has had, one his father, and the other a loving savior, whether it be drugs, a partner, or a new father figure that took him in when his dad got bored of him and disowned him ("I should've seen the boredom in your eyes", and "I can't believe you left me for dead man" indicate that the narrator's father got bored of him, or bored of his son's betrayal because he is a "loud man" and left him after simple goodbyes).