From the album steer - EP
This is a song about the physical mechanics of trying to avoid someone your body wants to crash into. Andrade turns driving into a metaphor for self-control, where keeping distance requires constant effort, constant steering away from the gravitational pull of a person who might destroy you.
I feel like I'll miss you for the rest of / Every passing minute on the empty line
The longing starts before anything even ends. The empty line could be a road, a phone line, the space between them. Either way, the missing is already permanent tense.
Turn the radio to maximum / And dip my head until I
She cuts herself off mid-thought, letting the action speak. The radio drowns out thinking. The physical movement becomes the mantra before the actual mantra arrives.
Did you send the bullet even then? / No one knew or set off any sirens
The past life question makes this feel fated and dangerous at once. The bullet landed before anyone noticed the gun. By the time the danger registered, they had already spun out.
Steer / Clear of you
Breaking the phrase across lines makes steering feel like an action you have to keep doing, not a decision you make once. Each repetition is another correction, another moment of resisting the pull.
Steer (steer clear of, steer clear of you)
The parentheticals pile up like she is talking herself through it in real time. The command becomes a loop, the kind of thing you repeat when willpower alone is not enough.
The song never says she succeeds at staying away. It just shows the effort, the repetition, the way avoiding someone can become its own kind of closeness. You walk away hearing steer as both a strategy and a plea.