High Enough

The second released single from this “Supergroup’s” debut album is a hard rock ballad. It peaked at #3 on The Hot 100 and #2 on The Mainstream Rock Songs. Cofounder of “Damn Yankees” and co-writer of this song, Jack Blades states in an interview with Song Facts. It’s about how you love someone so much and you just don’t want to scare them away. And it’s like, do I take the next step? And then she freaks out when you go, “I love you.” And it’s like, “What!?!? I’m outta here!” And you’re, “Wait a minute! Come back!” But then the girl comes back, because in the bridge it’s, (singing) “The next thing I remember I was running back for more.” You know how you get scared at first when you fall in love, and everybody freaks out, and that can’t be right. And then you go, Wait a minute, this is great, let’s forget about the past. Can you fly me over yesterday? Can you take me high enough to fly me over yesterday? In that same interview Jack also says that the whole song was written in half an hour!