Corona commercials are usually set on a beach or a popular vacation party destination. Stat is living a luxurious life.

The other workers have resumed business as usual and have sent his wife his dead. The ordering of the lyrics imply that they put oil first and the man’s death second.

It’s also ironic that he’s sent home to a beautiful natural spot after giving his life for a company determined to destroy and extract nature for profit.

The man has accepted his line of work and has almost been brainwashed to the actions of big oil. Longstreth mostly likely intends it to be a criticism of the industry and how unsafe practices have killed this man and polluted the environment, but also as a criticism of the general population who encourages this just by driving modern gas-guzzling vehicles.

Wherever the people drive, his ghost will linger, the cost that enabled their gas burning. As a casualty of the oil industry, he is now a part of all the cars driving on the road, burned like oil for their mobility.

Using a poetic permutation of the word knoll, which is the rounded top of a hill, Longstreth uses double meaning to signal his impending death. The word knell itself means a toll of a mourning bell or to ring such a bell. Going back to that hill is what he wants at the time his signal of death has arrived.

He explains his wife that his death does not warrant excessive mourning as it came working to make money for her and that his work was worthwhile.

It could also be that at least she’ll get a good payout from insurance

A man has suffered a fatal injury on a Chevron oil rig that ostensibly had a malfunction where it “busted a gasket.” The phrase “to bust a gasket is also often used to mean that a person has become angry or prematurely done something.

Longstreth creates an ambience of things passing away. The sun sinking into “repose” and the friend kneeling both evoke feelings of things falling.

Ju brought the listener a new style something different to contemplate. He did his “damage” on the song so he’s done his verse.

Do what is expected of the average citizen and get a job. He associates this lifestyle with being an Uncle Tom, or a person who is supplicant to usually white society. The term is based on the character of Uncle Tom in the movie adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s seminal 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

He got 24 inch rims on his Chevy. He’s also referencing the last line as Kobe Bryant is also #24 on the Lakers.