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Interpretations:AKA Driver

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I think this is about sleeping at the wheel. It's a full day's drive away, and NyQuill will help you sleep to pass the time.

UH OH! This truck driver is Robotripping! ...Or Nyquilshuffling....or whatever! LOOK OUT!

Not really an interpretation, but apparently a couple people haven't picked up on this: the "big hand" is the speedometer and the "little hand" is the fuel gauge (this does not look good for Nyquil Driver...)


Lol nice homestar reference ~Bill

If the little hand is on E, perhaps he ran out of gas and stops before anyone gets injured and lives happily ever after.

Weird, at the end of the track I hear a "za za za" sound, like a truck, could it be going down the infinite highway of life, never to stop... Or has it stopped with the sound of the dead driver? - King of Hearts.

The big puzzle of the song is: where is 'there' (aka 'it')? Some place that is a full day's drive away -- from Brooklyn? Could it be Los Angeles? If you walk you'll never get there... O brother, where art thou? --Nehushtan 22:43, 16 Mar 2006 (CST)

Addendum along those lines -- actually there is another clue in the song: we are driving 120 MPH. A full day is 24 hours. If you could drive that fast for that long (maybe unlikely since you're out of gas and some Nyquil-addled slowpoke keeps blocking your progress!), you would travel 2880 miles. Is there anything interesting (hinted at in the song perhaps) approx that distance from NYC? LA is about 2800 miles from there, but the song seems to have nothing to do with la la land. --Nehushtan 14:10, 21 Mar 2006 (CST)

But you've run outta gas! -Vixus

I think the song is about someone driving extremely slowly. "It is just a full day's drive away" because it takes a full day to get to where you are going because you are stuck behind someone who is driving so slowly. You wish you could "fly like birds in the air", but you can't. And you simply wouldn't make it to your destination if you walked. Perhaps the person is driving so slowly because they are on NyQuil and are very sleepy. But who ever is driving slowly is asked to get out of the way of the person who wants to drive fast. --Snodzilla

I always thought the song was about someone on the run. Then, when turning onto a road in their gettaway car, they encounter a slow driver. The person on the run gets pissed and calls the driver in front 'Nyquil Driver', as if the reason the driver is going slow is because they are under the effects of NyQuil. The empty fuel gauge means he doesn't have much time, and the slow driver is obstructing their way as the police draw closer. Blindfold 15:30, 25 Apr 2006 (CDT)

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