The Hitcher from Cooshi by Vincent van Hessen

An infamous story I read, as a 13 year old kid,
was written in a local newspaper.
The synopsis of the story goes something like this:

A cab driver was driving his taxi late one night, down the road.
It was a rainy and cold night, so he drove slower than normally
He had just fished his last ride and was on his way home,
to chill out and retire for a good night sleep.
When all of the sudden, down the road he noticed a vague figure.
It was a dark night and only his headlights lit the road.
He decelerated and noticed a young woman scarcely dressed, waving at his taxi car wildly.
He pulled over the car and let the young lady hopped in.
She was soaking wet, shivering of the cold, but otherwise seemed OK.
She wouldn't speak much and as it was rainy and she was so scarcely dressed, he offered her his raincoat so she could warm up a little.
The man was gallant enough to drive the young lady home, for free as she didn't seem to have any money on her.
She seemed to be quite distraught about something, so kept his questions and curiosity to himself.
She gave him an address and he dropped her off home some 20 minutes later after an almost silent drive.
He told her that he'd come and pick up his coat sometime later,
it was no problem if she kept for now, no problem what so ever.
She thanked him politely and graciously, for his kindness
and for having brought her back home free of charge.

A few days later the cab driver knocked on the door in which the young lady entered into a few nights prior.
He was greeted by an elderly lady who inquired for the purpose of his unexpected visit.
The gallant cab driver told the elderly lady of the strange young lady who had gotten into his taxi cab and explained that he last saw the young lady in plight entering the elderly lady's front door,
and was wondering if he could come and pick up the coat he had lent her for the time being.
The elderly looked somewhat surprised and asked the cabdriver to come into the house after which she showed him a photo picture
of a young lady, and inquired whether this was the young lady he was referring to.
The cab driver nodded affirmatively and said: "Yes that's definitely her!"
The elderly lady turned pale, stood there perplexed and dazed for a few minutes and then exclaimed:
"This is my daughter who was killed in a car crash some years ago,
what you're telling me now, is ludicrous and impossible."
The cab driver just froze, cold sweat started dripping down his back,
He frowned his forehead and replied :
"Look lady this is all too bizarre but I know one thing for sure:
that this lady was in my cab a few night ago, and I specifically remember, lending her my raincoat as it was a rainy and cold night."
After some more minutes of debating the two decided to drive to the grave yard where the elderly lady's daughter laid buried.
Upon arrival, at the tombstone, the cab driver froze as if struck by lightning.
The elderly lady stood there totally dazed and perplexed:
An impossible sight had greeted the both:
His raincoat lay on the tombstone. Yes the coat he had lent the young lady a few nights ago just lay there on the tombstone.
A tombstone of a girl who died in a car crash some years ago
and somehow ended up in his cab some nights ago..
On the same road she was killed on.... On a cold and rainy night!

Life is a mystery indeed
But death a bigger one, mainly for the living..

So how does one puts such a story into a song form?
That's what I tried to do in 'The Hitcher'!
I had to change 'Taxi driver' or 'Taxi' into 'Driving a hearse' , so it'll simply rhyme with 'reverse'.
It took months to write mainly the lyrical part, so it would make some kind of chronological sense and not lose the rhythmical sense.
'The Hitcher' one of my favorites. I like very much

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