Music Analysis: An Analysis Of 'Drunk Drivers'
Whenever I listen to my collection of music occasionally the song "Drunk Drivers" comes on and it always manages to pull me back to my freshman year and a big truth we all hide. Sometimes uncertainty takes control; and this song is perfect to explain that emotion. For anyone else the song might sound like it's about a reckless driver but for me, it's about a procrastinator who struggles with himself over what is right and wrong. The emotion of uncertainty is hard to put into words and explain. But the band, Car Seat Headrest changes this with the song "Drunk drivers". A song that uses the act of drunk driving as a metaphor to explain the pain of guilt after procrastination. The lyrics open up and immediately address the situation."In the
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Killer whales, killer whales." The lead singer says these two lines over and over, I feel that when he says "it doesn’t have to be like this." He is talking about his situation in his life at that very moment, and that his conscience is speaking to him. All of it speaks to me personally. The real pain I feel is my guilt and how it appears to be by my own hand. But as he says in his song "It doesn’t have to be like this.... it's not too late turn off the engine, get out of the car and start to walk." In the end he reassures me that am in power and can change my struggles around if I just start to fix my issues and never stop. For a long time, I would listen to this song on repeat my freshman year at palmetto high, scared of my future and wishing I knew where I would end up. That uncertainty paralyzed me into anxiety that gripped me at my heart; Fear of the unknown and what's to come held onto the back of every thought as if it was an alarm clock I could only set to snooze, after every few moments it reminded me what I was avoiding. In the end I ran from it and the responsibility attached to it. It was only after touching a piano had I discovered what I wanted to do tomorrow and all the years after. I wanted to be a creative, an artist. If there was any lesson I would want to take from this song and my experiences connected to its lyrics. It would be that uncertainty isn't certain, and that everyone has the power to get up and walk away from what causes them
Killer whales, killer whales." The lead singer says these two lines over and over, I feel that when he says "it doesn’t have to be like this." He is talking about his situation in his life at that very moment, and that his conscience is speaking to him. All of it speaks to me personally. The real pain I feel is my guilt and how it appears to be by my own hand. But as he says in his song "It doesn’t have to be like this.... it's not too late turn off the engine, get out of the car and start to walk." In the end he reassures me that am in power and can change my struggles around if I just start to fix my issues and never stop. For a long time, I would listen to this song on repeat my freshman year at palmetto high, scared of my future and wishing I knew where I would end up. That uncertainty paralyzed me into anxiety that gripped me at my heart; Fear of the unknown and what's to come held onto the back of every thought as if it was an alarm clock I could only set to snooze, after every few moments it reminded me what I was avoiding. In the end I ran from it and the responsibility attached to it. It was only after touching a piano had I discovered what I wanted to do tomorrow and all the years after. I wanted to be a creative, an artist. If there was any lesson I would want to take from this song and my experiences connected to its lyrics. It would be that uncertainty isn't certain, and that everyone has the power to get up and walk away from what causes them