This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
What's the matter friend
Open up your mind again
You're so frustrated
And you cannot decide
You can float away
Get upon a tidal wave
Now let it take you
To the freedom inside
Why don't you take a trip?
Don't you wanna get a grip
I just wanna
Get a message to you
We can leave today
We can motor anyway
So give it me
Let me make up your mind
And I've know
That you've been lookin' for a new direction
So leave it to me
Let me tell you what I'm gonna do
I said
"Children get out on the high road"
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me
I won't let you down
Get yourself back on the ground
You're dehydrated
And it's so hard to breathe
You don't need a pill
Somethin' that you wanna kill
So let me take you
To the freedom inside
And I've know
That you've been lookin' for a new direction
So leave it to me
Let me tell you what I'm gonna do
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
And I've know
That you've been lookin' for a new direction, yeah
So leave it to me
Let me tell you what I'm gonna do
Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
Get out on the high road
Yeah yeah yeah
Open up your mind again
You're so frustrated
And you cannot decide
You can float away
Get upon a tidal wave
Now let it take you
To the freedom inside
Why don't you take a trip?
Don't you wanna get a grip
I just wanna
Get a message to you
We can leave today
We can motor anyway
So give it me
Let me make up your mind
And I've know
That you've been lookin' for a new direction
So leave it to me
Let me tell you what I'm gonna do
I said
"Children get out on the high road"
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me
I won't let you down
Get yourself back on the ground
You're dehydrated
And it's so hard to breathe
You don't need a pill
Somethin' that you wanna kill
So let me take you
To the freedom inside
And I've know
That you've been lookin' for a new direction
So leave it to me
Let me tell you what I'm gonna do
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
And I've know
That you've been lookin' for a new direction, yeah
So leave it to me
Let me tell you what I'm gonna do
Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
I said
"Children get out on the high road
Every kinda people
Now don't you wanna ride with me"
Get out on the high road
Yeah yeah yeah
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High Road Lyrics as written by Glenn Hughes
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