Too High

Album: Innervisions (1973)
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  • Do-do, do, do, do, do-do
    Do, do, do-do, do, do-do
    Do-do, do-do, do, do
    Do-do, do, do, do, do-do
    Do, do, do, do, do-do, do
    Do-do, do-do, do-do

    I'm too high
    I'm too high
    But I ain't touched the sky
    I'm too high
    I'm too high
    But I ain't touched the sky

    She's a girl in a dream
    She sees a four-eyed cartoon monster on the TV screen
    She takes another puff and says, "It's a crazy scene"
    That red is green
    And she's a tangerine

    I'm too high
    I'm too high
    But I ain't left the ground
    I'm too high
    I'm too high
    I hope I never ever come down

    She's the girl in her life
    But her world's a superficial paradise
    She had a chance to make it big more than once or twice
    But no dice
    She wasn't very nice

    Ooh

    Do-do, do, do, do, do-do
    Do, do, do-do, do, do-do
    Do, do, do, do, do, do
    Do-do, do, do, do, do-do
    Do, do, do-do, do, do-do
    Do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do

    I'm too high
    I'm too high
    I can't ever touch the sky
    I'm too high
    I'm so high
    I feel like I'm about to die

    She's a girl of the past
    I guess that I got to her at last
    A did you hear the news about the girl today
    She passed away
    What did her friend say

    They said she's too high
    Too high
    Can't hang around anyway

    Do-do, do, do, do, do-do
    Do, do, do-do, do, do-do
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    Do, do, do, do Writer/s: Stevie Wonder
    Publisher: Raleigh Music Publishing LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 3

  • AnonymousJamiroquai also copied those early James Vincent albums (not the new guy, the other guy from the 70s).
  • Jgs from TorontoRe: Ed from Deal Kent’s comment - I say the same thing re: Jamiroquai but I use Stevie’s “Black Man” as the song example.
  • Ed from Deal Kent UkJamiroquai the UK funk band sounded like they based all their songs on this track.
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