"Beauty In A Car Crash" by Flight 409

So we've become so cinematic
With every word you come unglued
So we'll let this settle, ferment and grow
'Til we're both completely out of control

How was I supposed to know?
Retrace my steps find my way home
How was I supposed to know?
Retrace these steps find our way home

So I'll push my seat back as far as it'll go
Hold on tight as your lungs collapse
I can't wait 'till the impact hits you in the face
You can finally see that we were made to be

How was I supposed to know?
Retrace my steps find my way home
How was I supposed to know?
Retrace these steps find our way home

With my lungs collapsing
I'm drowning in the backseat
Holding onto nothing
That's all that's left of me

These brakes are goin' out
I'm lookin' straight ahead
Before we both go out
I loved you half to death

These brakes are goin' out
I'm lookin' straight ahead
Before we both go out
I loved you half to death

How was I supposed to know?
Retrace my steps find my way home
How was I supposed to know?
Retrace these steps find out way home

There's beauty in a car crash
There's beauty in the payback
This is my big city shakedown
When there's beauty in the breakdown
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The name of this song pretty much says it all. It is about two kids in love as seen in the line "Before we both go out/I loved you half to death" who probably go out partying and get in a car accident as seen in the line "The brakes are goin' out/ I'm lookin' straight ahead". The driver wishes they could take it back which is seen in the chorus "How was I supposed to know?/ Retrace my steps find my way home/How was I supposed to know?/Retrace these steps find our way home" The fact that he wants to retrace his steps shows that if he could take it back and do it again he would. I believe that the artist (Flight 409) wrote this song because they most likely witnessed it happening to someone they know.