High Enough

So, again I fall behind on my posts.  I apologize.  I'm been a bit frantic and off schedule with my upcoming move.  Hopefully, everything will settle soon -- and I sure hope I have decent internet service in the new place.  Anyway, I was driving this weekend and heard the song "High Enough" by Damn Yankees.  Excellent song, and I hadn't heard it in a long time.  So, I am glad it came on the radio.  When it first came out,  I thought they were singing "Can you take me higher...," but that is no surprise.  As you know, my hearing is not the best, and hey, sometimes it's just hard to tell what people are singing.  But, as I was listening this time, I was pretty sure it was "high enough" that they were singing.  Looked it up, and bingo!  Yes, that is what they are singing.  Unfortunately, it was released in 1990, so it isn't technically an '80s song, but that is alright.  Damn Yankees is made up of folks from Styx and Night Ranger--and Ted Nugent, so I think it's okay.

Meanwhile, I watched the video this evening, and I'm not sure I follow...  So, there is this couple, and they are on the run from the law (I think they robbed a bank or stole money somehow).  Toward the end of the video, there is this huge shoot-out with the cops and, well, Ted Nugent is out on the porch just rockin' out on his guitar solo while the bullets are flying.  Not quite sure I understood, but I guess it's kind of like that scene in "Titanic" where the string players are just playing along while the ship is sinking.  Actually, I think Ted is just playing as if to say "screw you" to the cops and the law.  Bullets cannot stop him!  I'm good with that.  Anyway, the woman is caught by the cops, goes to jail, and then you see her with a rosary and a priest.  Think he is reading her her last rights.   Come to find out at the very end, it's Ted Nugent again.  AHA!  Perfect!  He has another "ha!" kind of smirk, too.  I looked at the lyrics and history behind the song, and it's actually about a couple falling in love--and how it can be scary, and one person can scare the other away.  But, they ultimately come back to each other and can take each other high enough to fly them over yesterday.  Pretty cool.  I like it.  Good message, good harmony, awesome guitar solo, and just a good tune altogether.  Enjoy!