Song Meaning
Fans tend to say the lyrics refer to the emotional highs gained from when the song-writer ingested a recreational drug. Indeed, the musical notes of high and low sequences tend to alternate into matching the surging waves of euphoria while under a drug influence intoxification. The lyrical wording is said to convey this, in that its key line of "never let me down" means that the pleasure-response is 'hopefully' re-occurant. However the typically downward aftermath of drug-use could be the overall point the lyricist was making in that the drug binge is always a short-term one.
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—Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 2:10-13.
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