Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, formed in 19… Read Full Bio ↴Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, formed in 1976 by guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and former members Udo Dirkschneider (vocals) and Peter Baltes (bass). Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s, when the band got its start under the name Band X. Accept's lineup has changed over the years, which has included different singers, guitarists, bassists and drummers.

Their current lineup consists of Hoffmann, vocalist Mark Tornillo, guitarists Uwe Lulis and Philip Shouse, drummer Christopher Williams and bassist Martin Motnik. Before arriving at their current lineup, Accept has undergone numerous lineup changes, being Hoffmann the last remaining original member since its inception, and he is the only band member to appear on each album.

Accept played an important role in the development of speed and thrash metal, and they were part of the German heavy metal scene, which emerged in the early to mid-1980s. They have also been cited as an influence or inspiration by a number of acts, including Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Pantera, Testament, Anthrax, Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Overkill, Exodus, and Annihilator, as well as fellow Germans such as Helloween, Blind Guardian, Doro, Sodom, Rage, and Grave Digger. Accept achieved its first commercial success with their fifth studio album Balls to the Wall (1983), which is the band's only album to be certified gold in the United States and Canada, and spawned their well-known hit "Balls to the Wall".

Accept have broken up and reformed multiple times. They first split up in 1989, several months after the release of Eat the Heat (which was their only album with Dirkschneider's initial replacement David Reece), but reformed in 1992 and released three more albums before disbanding again in 1997. After briefly reuniting in 2005, Accept announced their third reunion in 2009, with former T.T. Quick frontman Mark Tornillo replacing Dirkschneider (who declined to participate), and the band has recorded five albums with him: Blood of the Nations (2010), Stalingrad (2012), Blind Rage (2014), The Rise of Chaos (2017) and Too Mean to Die (2021); each of those albums renewed Accept's popularity in Germany and entered the top ten charts there.

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Studio albums
Accept (1979)
I'm a Rebel (1980)
Breaker (1981)
Restless and Wild (1982)
Balls to the Wall (1983)
Metal Heart (1985)
Russian Roulette (1986)
Eat the Heat (1989)
Objection Overruled (1993)
Death Row (1994)
Predator (1996)
Blood of the Nations (2010)
Stalingrad (2012)
Blind Rage (2014)
The Rise of Chaos (2017)
Too Mean to Die (2021)

Too High To Get It Right
Accept Lyrics

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Getting everything is easy for you
Fail for anything is something you can't do
If it doesn't work in the way you want it for
You start dreaming until it's right

Lie is lie, and truth is truth
You'll turn it 'round, let someone else go down
You won't remember and no one would wonder

How you change it upside down

Too high to get it right
(too high to get, too high to get)
Too high to get it right

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To get it right

You can't deny it you're leaving your world
You are so restless, who's the one who's hurt
Living in your dreams and who seems to care
Cheating you is easy, 'cause you don't understand

Holding on, letting loose
Don't you feel that you are confused
Too many words, not spoken out
Too many things you've not thought about

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Too high to get it (right)

Overall Meaning

The song "Too High To Get It Right" by Accept speaks about a person who seems to have everything in life but fails at anything. They start dreaming about their situations until they make it right. The first stanza of the song highlights how easy it is for this person to achieve their desires and impossible for them to fail at anything. However, when things don't work out as expected, they resort to dreaming to make things right.

The second stanza talks about how this person deals with the truth and lie. They tend to turn truths into lies, and someone else will bear the consequences of their actions. They are not concerned about the aftermath of their actions, and no one seems to care how they turn things upside down. The song mentions the phrase, "too high to get it right" repeatedly. This line takes an ironic standpoint because the person in question is not just high in their dreams but also in drug use.

The chorus of the song sings that the person in question is "too high to get it right." They are living in a delusional world, and that makes it impossible for them to make good decisions. They are too comfortable in their own world, and that causes them to be careless with the decisions they make, which often lead to adverse consequences, and they still don't learn from them.

Line by Line Meaning

Getting everything is easy for you
You have always been successful in getting everything that you wanted

Fail for anything is something you can't do
You are so skilled that you cannot afford to fail at anything

If it doesn't work in the way you want it for
When things do not work out in the way that you want them to

You start dreaming until it's right
You start dreaming about how things should be until they become what you envisioned

Lie is lie, and truth is truth
You understand the difference between a lie and the truth

You'll turn it 'round, let someone else go down
You don't mind manipulating the situation so that someone else pays for the lie

You won't remember and no one would wonder
You won't remember what you did and no one will be suspicious

How you change it upside down
You can easily distort the truth so that it is completely different from what it was originally

Too high to get it right
You are at a point where you are too far gone to get anything right

(too high to get, too high to get)

You can't deny it you're leaving your world
You can't ignore the fact that you are distancing yourself from the real world

You are so restless, who's the one who's hurt
You are so anxious that you don't realize that it is hurting you

Living in your dreams and who seems to care
You are living in a fantasy world and no one seems to care

Cheating you is easy, 'cause you don't understand
You are so naive that people can easily take advantage of you

Holding on, letting loose
You sometimes hold on to things and sometimes let them go, without really considering the consequences

Don't you feel that you are confused
You are so confused that you don't even realize it

Too many words, not spoken out
You don't express yourself as much as you should

Too many things you've not thought about
You don't think about things as much as you should