I was watching a film named "500 days of Summer" and at the end there was a song starting like "She's got you high & you don't even know yet". Since I'm not a native speaker, I don't understand what does it mean? I need some help.
Learn English – “She’s got you high and you don’t even know yet”- What does this sentence mean? Help needed!
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"High" can be used to a refer to a mental state, usually a euphoric one. This can be used to refer to an induced state of euphoria from drugs, but it is also used to describe other natural states of happiness (eg "I'm on a high").
It is impossible for anyone but the songwriter to say authoritatively what the song lyrics mean, but it seems to me that the song is about someone in relationship with a girl who is making them very happy. The girl may love the person, or they may even be in love but either the person doesn't realise it or is in denial.
"She's got you high" means that the unnamed girl has made the person euphorically happy, maybe that they are even in love; and "You don't even know yet" implies that the person has not yet realised they may be in love, or perhaps just what a good thing this relationship is.
Other lyrics from the song that support this interpretation:
Perhaps this means metaphorically that the person is looking for something beautiful? Again there is a suggestion of being in denial.
Suggesting that if the person doesn't realise this girl is a good thing and respond, she will move on.
The writer is saying that love should be obvious, but the person hasn't realised it.
Telling the person in the song that they may be in denial that love will ever come their way, but that this is "closed minded" thinking.