It is about heroin which DP struggled with. Artists can’t sing about this directly so there are often allegorical references to women in songs which are actually about drugs. This is because ecstasy is associated with both sex and drugs.
A lot of what is described sounds more like being on a trip than being in love - flying, seeing everyone smiling, dancing in an Eastern dream (Heroin is a drug associated with the east.), being carried away on a river and of course “I get high” which is the pinnacle of the song and screamed out.
It is about heroin which DP struggled with. Artists can’t sing about this directly so there are often allegorical references to women in songs which are actually about drugs. This is because ecstasy is associated with both sex and drugs.
A lot of what is described sounds more like being on a trip than being in love - flying, seeing everyone smiling, dancing in an Eastern dream (Heroin is a drug associated with the east.), being carried away on a river and of course “I get high” which is the pinnacle of the song and screamed out.
The lyrics are also wrong in this post they miss out the 3rd verse which is:
The lyrics are also wrong in this post they miss out the 3rd verse which is:
Rising from the neon gloom, shining like a crazy moon, yeah, she turns me on like a fire, I get high
Rising from the neon gloom, shining like a crazy moon, yeah, she turns me on like a fire, I get high