“I go flying so high, when I’m stoned.”
Yes, a song written by a writer talking about a generic “stoned” individual driving a cab sky-pilot, indicating a fairness of the emptiness and failure of a drug-ruined life all the way from teenhood.
“She was gonna be an actress, and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off to find the sky”. “I go flying, so high, when I’m stoned.” Harry Chapin.
Who died on the Roosevelt Parkway in NYC in his VW Rabbit in a car accident he could not avoid. A true tragedy for a human being.