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Go down to wait all night
She's bound to run him out
Invested enough in it anyhow
To each his own
The garden is sorting out
She curls her lips on a bar
I don't know if you're dead or not
If you're anyone
Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
This army has so many hands
To analyze
Come on and get your overdose
Collected at the borderline
They want it up in your hair
[Chorus]
Cause they know, and so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour in your new life
Tell all of your friends goodbye
The dawn to end all nights
That's all we hoped it was
A break from the warfare in your house
To each his own
The soldier is bailing out
And curled his lips on a bar
And I don't know if the dead can talk
To anyone
Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
This army has so many hands
Are you one of us?
Come on and get your overdose
Collected at the borderline
They want to get up in your hair
[Chorus]
[Repeat x4]
It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide
She's bound to run him out
Invested enough in it anyhow
To each his own
The garden is sorting out
She curls her lips on a bar
I don't know if you're dead or not
If you're anyone
Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
This army has so many hands
To analyze
Come on and get your overdose
Collected at the borderline
They want it up in your hair
[Chorus]
Cause they know, and so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour in your new life
Tell all of your friends goodbye
The dawn to end all nights
That's all we hoped it was
A break from the warfare in your house
To each his own
The soldier is bailing out
And curled his lips on a bar
And I don't know if the dead can talk
To anyone
Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
This army has so many hands
Are you one of us?
Come on and get your overdose
Collected at the borderline
They want to get up in your hair
[Chorus]
[Repeat x4]
It's too late to change your mind
You let laws be your guide
Lyrics submitted by Konversekid, edited by lisa7055, tyrant001
Track duration: 03:52
"The High Road" as written by Brian Joseph Burton James Mercer
Lyrics © CHRYSALIS MUSIC GROUP
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(Some of the lyrics on this page are wrong, so in my interpretation some of the lyrics are different from what is on this page because I'm using what I believe are the lyrics).
Most people who think that this song is about drugs probably think that "the high road" is a reference to drugs, mainly because it says "high" in it; I believe that "the high road" in this song is used as the same way that this phrase is usually interpreted: taking the better way out of a bad situation.
That being said, let me start from the beginning of the song and work my way through:
"We're bound to wait all night
She's bound to run amok
Invested enough in it anyhow,
To each his own..."
I think that this is talking about maybe a group of friends waiting with a girl who is waiting for a dealer to give her drugs for the first time. They feel like they're "bound to wait all night" and "she's bound to run amok" because she might be nervous about getting caught, but she's already risked enough and is "invested enough in it anyhow".
"The Garden needs sorting out
She curls her lips on the bow
And I don't know if I'm dead or not
To anyone..."
The garden might be his or her life: it needs sorting out, it needs to be cleaned up and needs some TLC. She doesn't know if she's dead to society and she probably feels isolated.
"Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes,
This army has so many heads
To analyze...
Come on and get your overdose
Collect it at the borderline
And they want to get up in your head..."
This is the voice of the drug trade wanting you to "come on and get the minimum" that you need just to try drugs and get hooked, and try drugs "before you open up your eyes" that drugs are not the way out of your problems. The Army represents the police/those who fight against drugs, and the "so many heads to analyze" refers to the drug tests that cops use to convict people of felonies involving drugs and the many people that they try to convict. The drug traders "want to get up in your head" so that you'll get hooked on drugs and keep coming back for more, which means more money for them.
"Cause they know and so do I
The high road is hard to find
A detour to your new life
Tell all of your friends goodbye"
The drug traders ("they") "know...the high road is hard to find" and that drugs are a "detour" or easy way to fix your problems, rather than struggling to reach the high road. But while you're using these hard drugs, you'll likely lose your friends and leave everything behind you.
"The dawn to end all nights
That's all we hoped it was
A break form the warfare in your house...
A soldier is bailing out
He curled his lips on the barrel
And I don't know if the dead can talk
To anyone..."
"The dawn" refers to drugs and "all nights" represents all troubles and pains in life. So you hoped that "the dawn to end all nights" would "end the warfare in your house" (that drugs would end your problems that you're facing "in your house" or family or life in general). The soldier bailing out may be someone who has lost everything and tried very hard to escape drugs but can't, and so he "curls his lips on the barrel" and takes his life.
"It's too late to change your mind
You let loss be your guide..."
It's too late to escape from drugs or change your mind, because you let all of your problems push you to doing drugs as a means of escape, but now you're hooked and can't go back.
And it's "you let LOSS be your guide." Not laws.
Someone with a lack of a conscience or soul: "I don't know if you're dead or not...to anyone."
"Come get the minimum, before you open up your eyes"...doing something you know is wrong, but you give into impulse, not caring about consequence or how many lives you ruin....
I think any song, like a work of art, can be interpreted in many ways, depending on the viewers perspective at the time...Just Sayin'....
Near the end of the video they come across a white horse, which makes no sense except as a heroin reference. Shortly thereafter, they come across a women on the ground hysterically searching through the spilled contents of her purse. She certainly looks like a junkie who is trying to find that one last hit she thought she still had.
You live your life. Things happen. Unfair things, your toys get taken. Painful things, accidents. Lustful things. Confusing things. People lost. People ending their lives on purpose. Brief beauty. Disappearing into the mist, then emerging, and on down the road you go. Life is non stop. There's no trying to turn around and change what has happened. You keep walking. Learn from loss and keep going. Finding the high road is hard. But you learn through loss. It becomes your guide. What worked? What didn't. And down the road you go.
know it's a bit late to reply to this subject, but we all need to take our time.
Obviously, everyone here is stuck in reality and seems to have no other possible interpretation than the literality of the words.
Some efforts were made, though, by very clever ancd courageous people.
Anyway, the "soldier" should not be seen as a "man involved in a conflict" or "fighting for his nation under a flag" ...
The "soldier" in this song is a human being.
Everyone is struggling, yeah fighting, for life.
Furthermore, the One who's trying to find the High Road is a Soldier.
That One is surrounded by an army.
The Army will try to help the soldier to fight, but may also lead him to death, as it is the basic rule once you have accepted the game.
What is the game?
You may find the high road, and the high road may be a road to happiness.
Or not.
It's a song about enlightenment, defintely.
Just curious, what are the interpretations of the "curling her lips on the bow"
The sounds in that line are beautiful. I just have no idea what it means.
The Garden needs sorting out
She curls her lips on the bow
And I don't know if I'm dead or not
To anyone
I interpret this as her perfect life was not there, so she allowed herself to fall in love (bow and arrow) selfishly. Now he feels confused about what to do.
Come on and get the minimum
Before you open up your eyes
This army has so many heads
To analyze
Come on and get your overdose
Collect it at the borderline
And they want to get up in your head
I say this means that the world is infactuated with greed. "this army has so many heads to analyze". overindulge and then "they want to get up in your head". your looked up to when you have excess.
Cause they know and so do I.
The high road is hard to find.
A detour in your new life.
Tell all of your friends goodbye.
We all want to get on top but it lonely up there.
It's too late to change your mind,
You let loss be your guide.
You were pessimistic about the world, now its destroyed.
This is a societal statement. It is a statement about our rejection, as humans, of anarchy, or extreme idealism, and our need to be put in line, and told what to do by embracing the idea of "law".
This really is a gut-wrenching line, and yet it feels so good. It is sort of like how we feel good when we think we have a free system, where everyone gets a fair chance in democracy, even though the opposite is true, as a plutocracy disguises itself as a democracy.