High And Dry Lyrics Meaning

To me, this song has helped put words to some of the losses I have have and ignite the tears that make it possible to move through the grief.

People chasing things they believe they want/need only to later realize they don't fulfill and break their value and moral code to obtain them. I see the lyrics "you broke another mirror, turning into something you are not as what the psychological world calls splitting, and as we create our own "false idols" of ourselves, as we want the world to see us, flawless, great, special, powerful, skillfull, etc, we get to a point where we feel we can't live up to this false self, and we as Duran Duran put it, "come undone".

And during this journey the people in our lives suffer because we've put the "rise of our false self" before the needs and feelings of others and they abandon us as we've abandoned our "true self".

That lyric "All your insides fall to pieces and you just sit there wishing you could still make love" has helped me during being left by someone i was emotionally unavailable to because i was scared to be me, the real me i knew and believed i had to hide because of shame, the whole while focusing on being acceptible to others by losing my identity being a "Cool Camiellioen".

I am grateful to know this song as it again has helped me put words to what i was going through when i couldn't because of all the overwhelmingly blinding emotions I was experiencing.