This song is not about death. Now that we have taken care of that, here is the story.

Ya know how when you are a kid and you get super embarrassed, you feel like you could just die from that feeling and you just want to get away and be left alone? This is what it is all about.

The title is far funnier. When I first write songs I often write descriptive words at the top of the page to help me remember the tempo and feel of the song. I wrote the word "driving" for the tempo and then wrote "Pedro" as in Pedro the Lion to remind me that I sang it in the same style that he usually does. Once the song was done, there was "Driving" with "Pedro" at the top the page. Hence the title. I know, subtle genius.

Driving with Pedro
Last night I burned myself you left me outside but the burn was on the inside
I fell down to the floor I could only crawl I failed to rise above it all
as I laid there engulfed in flames I wondered why I never kept it sane

take what you can get and not one second more, no not yet
but how can you expect me to sit still to just stay chill here with my regrets
when you know next time has yet to come
next time is far from here

so many years spent trying to fit in but now I’m dying to get out
for all the time I served it should have been a better crime one worth doing time for
but never have I earned what I deserved just tried to look content with what I was served

you wake me before you say goodbye
it seems twice as cruel , why can’t you just leave me here, alone to die
I just laid down, why must you pry
leave me to die