High On Life?
Apr. 5th, 2007 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarSo this morning on the way to work, I was listening to (don't laugh) John Denver and the song Rocky Mountain High came on. And out of the blue, I remembered something from 5th grade:
So one day while we're learning all about the evils of drugs and whatnot, our teacher brings in a record and plays that song for us, and distributes a sheet with the song lyrics printed on it.
She asks us if we think that "rocky mountain high" is referring to being high from drugs, and we proceed to learn about being "high on life".
and then she asks us if we think that the line "friends around a campfire and everybody's high" refers to being high on drugs...and of course, everyone's all "No, they're all high on life!"
And my thought when that line played this morning? Yeah, like hell they're all just high on life. Maybe the song in general refers to being high on life/nature/thinner altitude, less oxygen...but that one line? No way.
I am highly amused.
So one day while we're learning all about the evils of drugs and whatnot, our teacher brings in a record and plays that song for us, and distributes a sheet with the song lyrics printed on it.
She asks us if we think that "rocky mountain high" is referring to being high from drugs, and we proceed to learn about being "high on life".
and then she asks us if we think that the line "friends around a campfire and everybody's high" refers to being high on drugs...and of course, everyone's all "No, they're all high on life!"
And my thought when that line played this morning? Yeah, like hell they're all just high on life. Maybe the song in general refers to being high on life/nature/thinner altitude, less oxygen...but that one line? No way.
I am highly amused.
