Broken Bells The High Road

Broken Bells is a group of two artists, Danger Mouse(Brian Burton) and James Mercer. They have two huge hits that I've totally gotten into, along with probably one million other people.... "The High Road" and "The Ghost Inside".

The more I listen to The High Road the more I am convinced it is about the pharmaceutical industry and/or the drugs it creates for us. I thought I would throw it out there because I noticed that no one really knows what this song is about(yet).... It's open to interpretation!:) Actually, most the videos with "lyrics" differ from one another as to what they think is being said... But I'll quote for you a few of the lines that are easily understood and what I think they are talking about.

"We're bound to wait all night
She's bound to run amok"

We're bound to wait for her to run amok(unless she gets her pharmaceuticals to straighten her out or fix her)

"Invested enough in it anyhow"

The pharmaceutical industry spends more money then basically any other industry in north America! Probably the world. More then Lumber or Automotive or Oil etc...

"To each his own"

Some decide not to do drugs....

"The Garden needs sorting out"

The Garden of Humanity maybe?

"And I don't know if I'm dead or not, to anyone"

Is doing, or not doing the pharmaceuticals make you dead or alive? If you don't do them, you may seem dead to everyone(Majority) who do them. Or if you do them you may seem dead to those that don't.

"Come on and get the minimum before you open up your eyes."

Straight forward, to me anyways... Get your minimum of drugs and alcohol to keep you blurry eyed or foggy minded... To make sure you always look at the world through tinted glass.

"This army has so many heads, to analyze"

The Army of Humanity has so many people, races, societies, ages, diseases and problems, that it'll take what could be forever to create new and different drugs, a never ending story.

"Come on and get your overdose"

Could it be more clear??

"Collect it at the borderline"

Maybe the pharmacy?? Or the borderline between insanity and soberness etc??

"And they want to get up in your head"

'they' being the pharmaceutical companies, and 'your head' being, uh, your head!

"Cause they know, and so do I, the high road is hard to find"

Maybe the road of living life naturally??

"A detour to your new life, tell all of your friends goodbye"

If you take the high road, you'll probably have to say goodbye to all your friends, because they, and most of humanity are stuck in the rut of drugs, entertainment, and pharmaceuticals.

"The dawn to end all nights, that's all we hoped it was"

Could be talking about the dawn of us all stopping pharmaceuticals etc?

"A break from the warfare in your house, to each his own"

With the aid of pharmaceuticals you'll get a break alright... To each his own...

"The soldier is bailing out, he curled his lips on a ......(could be a couple things)"

Well soldiers have been known to do drugs during, and also long after they have been exposed to warfare.....

"And I don't know if the dead can talk, to anyone."

Maybe if they could they would warn us, that there's a better way...

"It's too late to change your mind, you let loss be your guide"

It's too late to change your mind most people think, because they have already been traveling down the wrong road for what seems like forever, and so has all of society...

"You let loss be your guide"

You let loss of anything, money, relationships, people, material possessions control your mood. And potentially make you always think of the glass as half empty, and as such you turn to easy solutions, such as drugs to cure things, even temporarily.

That's all I got... Could be what it's a about, could be totally wrong:) It's just what I feel when I hear it... Which could be my prejudice towards pharmaceuticals lately... If you agree, let me know. If you disagree, or have another idea about what you think the song may be about, also let me know:)

Just throwin' it out there;-)