Songfacts®:

• This somber ballad finds Suede vocalist Brett Anderson reflecting on a lost love. With its lopsided piano and orchestral arrangement, the song is an oasis of calm among the mayhem of the Autofiction album. "Even though I've called it our 'punk record,' we can write interesting ballads," Anderson told The Sun. "On this record, 'Drive Myself Home' and 'Shadow Self' are about taking it down, so you can take it up again. If it was one tone all the way through, it wouldn't be a Suede record."
• Anderson wrote "Drive Myself Home" with Suede guitarist Richard Oakes. Ed Buller, who has worked with Suede on and off since their 1993 self-titled debut album, produced the song along with the rest of Autofiction.
• Anderson and Oakes started working on the demo in March 2020, just before lockdown. "It started as a slow, funeral take on 'Warszawa,' but evolved into something more sweeping and traditionally Suede," Oakes told DIY magazine.
• Keyboardist Neil Codling recorded the orchestral parts. "One of the things we were fighting was this orchestral Suede sound," Buller told Uncut magazine. "We tried to minimize it on this record. But some songs don't work without it, and so we went to Sweden to do that. But for the rest of the album, we wanted to make it like we were performing a play rather than making a movie."