ABEL WILL DRIVE TOMORROW

The Weeknd and Abel's last goodbye on the The Weeknd's track Drive

Apr 12, 2025

This is the problem with killing your ego, it always comes back and when it comes back it comes back to test what you have done with your time, in the time you have had without it.

Killing your ego and the time afterwards is a glorious and beautiful time of colour and humility usually; humility is the most attractive character trait someone can have in my opinion. However, the colours aren’t there to be beautiful, they are there to warn you that, sure you may feel like you just experienced becoming apart of nature and you are now in tune with the patterns of it on planet earth, which was a life altering and dimension jumping kind of HUMAN experience. However, the colours are actually there to keep you awake!

Awake mostly to the imminent return of your ego which is pending until further notice, the only definite is, it will come back. You will need to make a choice once it does too; do you choose to take it’s challenge of war, or deny it and turn to religion?

Religion, in my opinion, is there to help you stay in denial of the whole damn thing happening! It is a way to get out of the fire line of your ego, but religion will never truely allow you to kill it. I can not see why anyone could be that scared of life to want to deny such a extra ordinary experience like killing your ego for the first time. However, these people are still out there.

DO NOT CHOOSE DENIAL. Is my advice.

Having been someone who chose the war when my time came, it is worth any pain you may experience from being in the war. And you will experience pain of course, you will also experience TRUE FREEDOM, and TRUE BLISS and TRUE LOVE. You have to take the good with the bad in this cruel, cruel world.

The Weeknd is telling the end to this story in Drive, a story he has been telling for a few albums now.

I identified with The Weeknd IMMEDIATELY. And it wasn’t just his lyrics (though they were amazing) and it wasn’t just the melodies or bad ass hip hop beats he used, or that sweet sweet bassssssssssss.

No.

The tone of his voice and the way he sung those songs about women, told me EVERYTHING I needed to know. He hated himself, he was in pain, “Insert resentful lyric about a woman here,” then cut to me again, IDENTIFYNG.

Up until I was in my late twenties I resented men, and even after I made the decision not to anymore (and that is how easy it is, just choose a choice), it still took around four more years to rid myself of all said resentment. It all ending in the most brutal display of karma I have ever been objected to in my life and that scared me enough to start choosing different choices.

And thank “god” for this too, because that’s when I realised being sadistic was NOT better than being kind. When I had the realisation of what it meant to be kind to myself (which came much too late in life for me, but better late than never), I have never chosen sadism over kindness ever again.

I was 100% a sadist before the age of 34, my psychologist diagnosed me as someone who plays with sadomasochistic behaviours and situations with myself and those around me, in other words, I was a self sabotaging super star.

From Trilogy through to Hurry Up Tomorrow, The Weeknd has been telling his story of how this all worked out for him. I am writing a novella about only the war part of this same story, which has been very challenging. The Weeknd writes about having the ego, being evil, where that takes you (to heaven and to hell on earth), the downfall, the ego death, the ego’s return, the deaths, the rebirths, the war and the end. The end is always hardest to describe but the Weeknd does it perfectly in Drive.

This means he has come full circle now. He is a child again. The child will come back to you after around 4 years of kindness and no evil egos have interfered in the rebuilding of your new paradise. And when it comes back, you go to war with it. When the war ends, no one wins, your ego dies, and then you go to purgatory. How long do you stay in purgatory? I’d say it was a choice, but this wasn’t my experience of purgatory. Purgatory seemed never ending to me, The Abyss, which is one of The Weeknd’s newest tracks also.

My purgatory felt exactly like an abyss. It was like being in one of those huge grass mazes rich people used to have (for some reason) and losing my way to get out and trying so hard, trying, trying and eventually just getting tired and giving up. I saw myself sitting in this maze with my little child, and my shoadow always sitting a little further away from us like the shadow was waiting for something to come back to be able to re-join my life. The ego.

In purgatory you have no ego, which means you lose all connection with your shadow as well. And it’s just you and your little child and although a strong duo, your shadow and ego are absolutely necessary to continue the game of life. Giving up isn’t an act of defeat, it is all you can do in purgatory, once you have accepted you are there. It is just a waiting game.

My egos second death was brutal and I didn’t kill it the second time, it was murdered. I wasn’t ready to let it go yet, it had to go, but I was not ready for it to go at all.

This brings me to the current day, the other day, I was listening to The Weeknd’s newest album release, Hurry Up Tomorrow trying to find a way to connect with it, because I had not yet, which was rare for me and his music. I had almost given up, and then a song called Drive starts. I was doing other things, but I noticed it straight away. I didn’t know what was being said yet, and It wasn’t necessarily the melodies or beats. It was how The Weeknd was singing this song again, that I instantly identified with. It really healed me instantly and this is why I think this happened.

This was originally a Reddit post, but it was so long I had to make it a blog instead and I haven’t written much for a while, so I hope you can identify with it or find some clarity even. It’s a very important life story that is told in this song and it is the end. You can hear it in his voice. The freedom.

Drive the song’s meanings and importance to Abel’s (The Weeknd) story

Drive is a cathartic song, you can feel what he feels like the wind in his hair, and you envision him driving through a deserted route either in the middle of no where or maybe somewhere near water. The song floats along like a car driving freely up a road, alone. It’s a very liberating song and I noticed it immediately, unlike any other song on the album. I believe it could be incredibly important to the storyline, and a pivotal moment in Abel’s narrative.

Many people see Drive as a light, carefree song, breaking up the dramatics of the other parts of the album, but this can’t be true.

I believe it is that one final moment of freedom, before the inevitable. And that is the most calm you will feel in your life.

Intuitively I straight away believed there was something much deeper happening with this track. Drive is about the final negotiation between Abel (the self) and The Weeknd (the ego). At first glance, it seems like the Big Sleep is the conclusion of their conflict. In that song, Abel makes the decision…

Well, you used up your borrowed light / And you wasted your borrowed time / Big sleep, big sleep. - Big Sleep

It sounds like Abel is the one putting The Weeknd to sleep. The metaphor is clear: his time is up, and Abel is ready to pull the trigger. However, then Drive is rought to your attention (or it’s not, but anyone who has gone to war with their ego to the bitter end, will be triggered by Drive). I believe this song changes everything about his story as we know it up until this point. He doesn’t hate his ego, he loves his ego now.

Imminently, instead of a one-sided execution, there might be something else going on. Is the The Weeknd responding to Abel on this track? Is The Weeknd asking for a final request before the second death?

The Weeknd knows he has to die again for good this time, The Abyss is waiting, ect. (Same as the character of Lana Del Rey, played by Lizzie Grant. Del Rey is featured on track, The Abyss).

The Weeknd is refusing to allow Abel to be the one to decide how his death is going to happen. He continues to drive for today, even though he has accepted his fate, he just wants to feel the feeling of being among the nature of earths atmosphere one last time with Abel.

I don't want to waste your time, just want to feel the air on my body... Don't ever think I'll be this happy again. - Drive

The Weeknd is asking Abel for one last chance to feel alive before it all ends, however, this isn’t about escaping death, it’s about agency. It’s about owning the final act, taking responsibility and it’s about love for Abel. He is asking to feel trusted by Abel one time before he goes, because he knows this will ease the healing process or purgatory after he has gone. Forgiveness and trust heals everything.

“Let ME drive.” The Weeknd tells Abel.

The Weeknd is telling Abel this for only one last time. He’s telling Abel to let him take the wheel and let him decide how this ends and most importantly, to trust him to do so with respect for Abel.

A ego like The Weeknd is not one that passively disappears. Even in his final moments, he refuses to be erased by someone else. Even if that someone else, is him.

Then comes Abel’s hesitation of this request, Abel still fears letting The Weeknd take control again. If you have watched The Weeknd’s music videos over the last few years you won’t be wondering why.

Be precious with my heart, drive me slow. Just be kind, I'm a child again... - Drive (Abel asks The Weeknd in the passenger seat of the car still).

This is Abel’s voice, his fear of letting The Weeknd back in. He feels vulnerable and he wants the transition to be gentle. Nothing like the way it has been since single number one from The Weeknd, Birthday Suit.

When Abel sings that, “You'll always be a part of me, just turn the key..." This is showing a love for his ego and sorrow for the death of it coming up at the end of this song.

And then the track The Abyss comes next.

The end of The Weeknd has taken place and purgatory awaits.

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Drive is a pivital moment of the story. It explains that what we’re witnessing isn’t Abel executing The Weeknd, this is actually Abel stepping aside. He steps aside to hand over the final moments to him, and it’s clear in The Abyss that The Weeknd doesn’t resist his fate this time. He isn’t asking to be saved, he’s asking for the permission to end his existence in Abel’s life on his terms.

It also makes sense why Lana Del Rey is singing with him on the Abyss, aka Lizzie Grant, because she is also in the process of ending her relationship with her character/ego Lana Del Rey.

Drive, ultimately is a very intense and loving, yet tragic suicide song (ego suicide/death). Abel never kills The Weeknd, I don’t think he ever would have it in him to do so. It’s a moment of AUTONOMY, rather than just a alter ego execution.

Drive is such a stand out song on the album, no other song sounds anything like it and it’s beautiful that Abel is being kind to himself and allowing The Weeknd this wish of control over his own death and trusting him to not make him suffer anymore. True beauty is experienced and you can hear this in Abel’s voice as he sings this track. It’s hard to ignore, and I couldn’t the first time I heard it.

With the added element that Abel doesn’t completely want to say good bye to The Weeknd either, he more HAS to, than WANTS to. There’s that element of sadness throughout the track heard, which I picked up on very fast. Because, good byes are always going to be tough, even if absolutely necessary.