Tove Lo: Stay High Meaning

Song Released: 2014

Stay High Lyrics

Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun,it got no end
Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun,it got no end
Staying in my play pretend
Where the fun,it got no end
Ohhh

Can't go home alone again
Need someone to numb the pain
Can't go...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 10th 2020 !⃝

   When I listened to this song it sounded like it was about a girl who's lover left her and she was so heartbroken she got on drugs and alcohol
2. anonymous

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   Oct 28th 2014 !⃝

   "Binging on my twinkies, throw up in my bathtub" means she has bulimia.
3. anonymous

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   Oct 8th 2014 !⃝

   It binge on twinkies not "vingeon" as in eat too many... then throw up in the tub... make sense now?
4. anonymous

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   Oct 8th 2014 !⃝

   I believe that she is trying to find alternatives to help her get over a break up or someone leaving her life, and to help her cope with the pain to keep someone who she cared about off her mind.
5. anonymous

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   Sep 13th 2014 !⃝

   She loves porn but her parents found out so she takes drugs now
6. anonymous

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   Sep 11th 2014 !⃝

   I just want to know what does "vingeon on my twinkies" means... I know twinkies.. but, what's vingeon?

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
7. anonymous

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   Sep 6th 2014 !⃝

   I think it's the story of the bad habits we go through after a break up. She seems to go through everything that a partier would, but as seen in the video, she's crying. It seems to show that she's miserable, and is trying to do whatever possible to make the pain of remembering vanish.
8. anonymous

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   Jul 28th 2014 !⃝

   Can I just ask where you got that whoever the song is about passed away? Maybe she's not trying to get them back because they left her for someone else. Just a thought.
9. anonymous

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   Jul 11th 2014 !⃝

   I read that she said she wrote this during a break up. I too thought it was about someone dying, but she said it's about the pain of losing someone after a break up.
10. anonymous

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    Jul 1st 2014 !⃝

    She is talking bout how she is in depression so she doesnt want to go home.
    
    But at first i thought it was bout chasing your dreams.

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11. anonymous

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    Jun 26th 2014 !⃝

    I agree with your interpretation except for the child part. She doesn't say anything about a playground. She says she is staying at her play pretend, which I think is how she calls her world of behaving like she is having fun at parties but is actually suffering inside. I do think the person she lost is dead, otherwise she'd be trying to get them back since she is clearly in pieces. In the video with the remix you only get a hint that she's sad. But in the normal version you can really get the whole picture of how depressed she is.
    And by the way, her deceased lover might be a guy or girl since she is clearly bi in the video hahaha
12. anonymous

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    Jun 25th 2014 !⃝

    She lost her loved one either because he or she died or because she's a junkie whose drug and alcohol problems only worsened after being left.
    
    Since she mentions spending time with her child at the playground, I'm assuming the father wouldn't leave his son/daughter with a junkie, so I'm inclined to think this song is really about a woman whose husband died.
    
    Her husband died, and she's struggling to cope with the loss by abusing alcohol and drugs while trying her best to be a good mother.

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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