"High Enough" | ||||
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![]() US commercial cassette single | ||||
Single by Damn Yankees | ||||
from the album Damn Yankees | ||||
B-side | "Piledriver" | |||
Released | September 22, 1990 | |||
Genre | Glam metal [1] | |||
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Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Songwriter(s) | Tommy Shaw, Jack Blades, Ted Nugent | |||
Producer(s) | Ron Nevison | |||
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"High Enough" is a song by American supergroup Damn Yankees from their self-titled debut album. A power ballad, it is their most successful single in terms of chart position and sales, rising to No. 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, the group's first (and only) top-ten pop single. It also reached No. 2 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The success of "High Enough" helped send its parent album into the top 20 on the US albums chart.
According to songwriter and co-lead vocalist Jack Blades:
'High Enough' was 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? [2]
The music video depicts a young drifter and his girlfriend who commit a series of robberies. As the video ends, the priest is revealed to be Ted Nugent.
7-inch and cassette single [3] [4]
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [15] | Gold | 500,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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