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It's also a backhand to the record industry as well. It's about maintaining your ideals/goals, and not selling out to the wishes of the man in the suit who is making a profit on your dreams.

The record executives are the high heeled boys, as a kind of play off of well heeled. In the lyrics they do use high-heeled boys, which may or may not be a reference to their sexual deviancies as well. That's perhaps a more hidden meaning.

Other interpretations make it about drug usage & the relationship between user & supplier, & high-heeled boys is a reference to an 8-ball mixture of cocaine & heroin.

As far as I know Steve Winwood has never really come out and said what the lyrics mean. So, we have several options to choose from. Those are only 2. But I have always loved the song and my interpretation has always been the first one, because to me it has a deeper meaning than the drug usage one. 🙂

Am I right? Who knows, and frankly who cares. 🙂

It's also a backhand to the record industry as well. It's about maintaining your ideals/goals, and not selling out to the wishes of the man in the suit who is making a profit on your dreams<.

I know, here's my story.

I had a good gig at a DFW airport hotel, and then a "woke" new supervisor came in.

She hated me and she was deternind, to put me in my place.

Well anyway, the local radio station's( WBAP/ 10/26/21) , Brad Barton, was telling everybody to get shelter, and I said to Mereduth and I'm suggesting that all shuttles should be canceled for the time.

Well she got fire in her eyes and she said "No", You will do what I say"

I walked away.