The song as I understand it says that you cannot have all your life "on high", like everybody would like to. If you want to travel, not miss things, to gain experiences, you would have to take risks and sometimes the life will wash over you, which mean take you down as a big wave. And as higher you climb, the more painful is the fall.
The line "So I dive into a pool so cool and deep, that if I sink I sink and when I swim I fly so high" is one of my favorite lines in songs that I know. You should imagine swimming in a deep pool. When you are swimming on the surface of the water you are like flying high relatively to the bottom, a divine experience if you survive. But the risk is that you can sink and die in the cool and deep water.
Besides, there are a parallel connotations to using drugs: "I've been high", "my eyes seem empty". These are also a risky actions that brings you to point of high, but later comes the fall.
(Sorry in advance if I have linguistic mistakes. English is not my mother tongue)
this post is so old but hat is my favorite song too....I have this song on an r.e.m. mix right after Orange Crush and I keep thinking of the vets just slightly older than me that came home form nam and how that world would make anyone want to live on high....even those that thought they were at the time of the war(s)...that is also my favorite line (So I dive into a pool...") and it makes me think of Keats....living on high does not always mean in an artificial way...it means to feel everything so deeply that you you...
this post is so old but hat is my favorite song too....I have this song on an r.e.m. mix right after Orange Crush and I keep thinking of the vets just slightly older than me that came home form nam and how that world would make anyone want to live on high....even those that thought they were at the time of the war(s)...that is also my favorite line (So I dive into a pool...") and it makes me think of Keats....living on high does not always mean in an artificial way...it means to feel everything so deeply that you you are on high and also - it is possible to happen at the same time - to sink so low simply by knowing the depths that exist....
The song as I understand it says that you cannot have all your life "on high", like everybody would like to. If you want to travel, not miss things, to gain experiences, you would have to take risks and sometimes the life will wash over you, which mean take you down as a big wave. And as higher you climb, the more painful is the fall.
The line "So I dive into a pool so cool and deep, that if I sink I sink and when I swim I fly so high" is one of my favorite lines in songs that I know. You should imagine swimming in a deep pool. When you are swimming on the surface of the water you are like flying high relatively to the bottom, a divine experience if you survive. But the risk is that you can sink and die in the cool and deep water.
Besides, there are a parallel connotations to using drugs: "I've been high", "my eyes seem empty". These are also a risky actions that brings you to point of high, but later comes the fall.
(Sorry in advance if I have linguistic mistakes. English is not my mother tongue)
this post is so old but hat is my favorite song too....I have this song on an r.e.m. mix right after Orange Crush and I keep thinking of the vets just slightly older than me that came home form nam and how that world would make anyone want to live on high....even those that thought they were at the time of the war(s)...that is also my favorite line (So I dive into a pool...") and it makes me think of Keats....living on high does not always mean in an artificial way...it means to feel everything so deeply that you you...
this post is so old but hat is my favorite song too....I have this song on an r.e.m. mix right after Orange Crush and I keep thinking of the vets just slightly older than me that came home form nam and how that world would make anyone want to live on high....even those that thought they were at the time of the war(s)...that is also my favorite line (So I dive into a pool...") and it makes me think of Keats....living on high does not always mean in an artificial way...it means to feel everything so deeply that you you are on high and also - it is possible to happen at the same time - to sink so low simply by knowing the depths that exist....