Flying On The Ground Is Wrong

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i was listening to this song and i was wondering if it was about being high on drugs that depress you, 'downers', compaired to being high on uppers that make you feel really happy and good. normaling when you high, you 'flying in the sky', not the ground. also he makes many refrences to being down, low, in peices. . . "Is my world not falling down"

or maybe hes warning someone that downers aren't fun and to go back to physedelics and uppers. "But you're from my side of town".

anyone else get what im saying?? anyone else have any other views or actually know whats its about?

personally i think its about not letting go of a girl that onced loved you. his world is falling down because the girl left her, but hes still holding on to her. flying on the ground may mean hes still swept away by her, but needs to let go and cant, so hes flying but still on the ground(her).

i dont think the upper and downer analogy is very valid. an upper just exhibits an excitatory response to the nervous system while downers produce an inhibitory response. alcohol is a physiologically a "downer" but does not depress most ppl, at least if theyre not already depressed. nicotine is physiologically an upper, but it relaxes most ppl. neither term has anything to do with an emotional response; who would ever take a drug that makes you depressed and sad? anyways uppers and downers is just a product of the gross misinformation from dare and society on drugs.

thats not to say your views totally wrong. he could be singing about a drug he cant stop using, but has gotten to the point where he definitely should stop. its not as if noone in the band didnt use drugs or wrote songs about them, but to me this doesnt seem to be one of them.

Neil young said this song is about being high and if you aren't then you'll never understand him. "Flying on the ground is wrong" because when you're high you're in the sky so if you're on the ground you won't get someone thats high up.

I definitely think it has to do with him missing a girl from his old life, but probably because she is conservative and from the country and he has his city life now, which includes "flying on the ground" (aka LSD, etc.) and she cannot accept it. Neil Young, who I think wrote this, is from Manitoba, and there is a lot of country and very little city up there.

Neil Young wrote it and was actually born in Ontario, living in Toronto and other places in ON, including the country, until his parents divorced, and he went with his mother to Winnipeg, Alberta. Alberta's mostly country, but it cool to note that not only did Neil come from Winnipeg, so did Joni Mitchell and Randy Bachman of the Guess Who. and they all knew each other. Neil has credited watching Bachman play in Winnipeg as an influence to his style. This song came out in 1966 and in the following year it was released as a single by the Guess Who, Randy Bachman's band.