In a Different Place

beautiful song...........more drugs from the boys from Ride.

Does make sense that it can be about drugs, but hey, I'm not too sure, do all rock artists have to write about drugs all the time ?

Our experiences shape our interpretations. Most people who thinks songs are about drugs use drugs themselves.

I think it's a pure expression of the euphoria of young love. To me it evokes an image of a couple on a hot, summers day, just lazing around in each other's company while everyone else rushes about like headless chickens. The euphoria is such that even when the skies break and the rain comes in, their euphoria is strong enough to withhold it. And yes, maybe it has druggy connotations too, but I don't think you need to invoke that response.

And to Catroar: I agree with the lyric as listed, I think it's 'We're smiling as we're waking.' I imagine them dozing on a hot, languid day. It captures that mood perfectly - when you're half-in-reality and half-in-the-dreamword. A wonderful swoon of a song.

I mean, it perfectly describes a feeling of euphoria. By the way , I think the line "And we're smiling, when we're waking" would be walking instead of waking.

definitely not about drugs but i think pt was implying that the song has a drug-like effect or can produce a similar feeling in the mind like other songs of theirs.

For me, it is not about drugs. It is about two people who love each other but not together in a same space, maybe cross country love. Their relationship might have ended based on clues I felt from first two songs in this album. But the lyricist this time is imagining, or I would say he is sure that the girl he loves is also thinking of her, their feeling towards each other connected in a time and space trenscending way. Especially the lyricist in first song Seagull mentioned"you burned your wings and now see me fly high", which meant in my feeling, he knows this girls still loves her. They just separated without given a choice. So when he misses her, he can only imagine connecting to her through mind and will instead of physically in same space and time. Though helpless but very powerful love I can feel from this song.