The High Road

This song is about fixed spirituality, life, death, and convenient distractions that divert physical actuality from proper spiritual autonomy. Spiritual autonomy is the subjective discernment that considers decency [pathos, ethos, and logos] in a moral life context. In short, the “High Road” is found independently from convenient distraction, duty, and blind emotional overloads that divert good intentions to the extent of harmful existences, as followers in mass (symbolic) armies.

The overdose at the borderlines represents fear and loss guiding any collective (status) mass into overdoses of preemptive actions that have no personal meaning other than obedience to directives, outside of the autonomy necessary of life’s “High Road.” The minimum is the extent of knowledge it takes to justify following directives and living easily enough to get by as a unit.

The “garden” is life’s origin (Eden). The simple fact that we neither plan life, nor do we control it, is universal (“… they know and so do I…”). This only leaves room to ponder birth, life, and death as humans (“to each his own”). The divergent sects (religions) from Eden (Great African Rift Valley) have conveniently inserted their own interpretations of these fixed unknown(s); which historically loop back to support any convenient, collective existence absent of “The High Road’s” pursuit. If we do not make up our own minds instead of being consumed by said collective diversions, it will be “too late to change our minds,” after the Grand Finalé (death) which is implied by the wreck at the beginning.

Insert your own interpretation here regarding the suicide of the soldier, avoiding his “duty” as part of the collective and bailing out (not wanting to kill anyone else). The last dead entity to speak clearly with a live, witnessed, written Record (“I don’t know if the dead can talk, to anyone”) was Jesus to Paul.

The dawn to end all nights is each soul’s life after death. Sleep can be associated with being non-conscious and resurrected daily except upon death of the body. The final “dawn” is the light associated with the soul’s eternal journey if the “High Road” was observed in life. “Say goodbye to all your friends,” they are still alive, and once you’re dead it’s too late to change your mind. If you had found the “High Road” in life, you had already told “all of your friends goodbye,” via the “detour” out of the masses.

These are very complex social/philosophical issues that a genius has managed to get into an excellent, relatively short, song. Bravo!