Examples:

 

“I looked in my rear view mirror and it seemed to make a lot more sense than what I see ahead of us.”

 

She mentions looking into a rearview mirror as looking into the past and how it all makes sense to her now and whatever happens in the future is to be expected. (Foreshadowing)

 

“Baby you know how to drive in the rain. You decided not to make a make a change. Stuck in the same old lane. Going the wrong way home.”

 

The guy knows how to deal with the pain and that it’s his fault things are the way they are because they’re stuck in the relationship or “in the same old lane”.

 

“I feel like my heart is stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, I'm under pressure. Cause I can't have you the way that I want. Let's just go back to the way it was”

 

She expresses how her heart is stuck under pressure and uses traffic to represent it.

 

“When we were in Honeymoon Avenue, coasting like crazy.”

 

She uses the honeymoon stage to represent how they used to be.

 

The entire song is a symbol of how their relationship is like a hard road to drive in.