Three Days Grace - The High Road Lyrics Meaning

This song is based on a metaphor that compares life to a road. This particular road, like life, has high points and low points. But like a road has signs to direct people where to go, life has family, friends and loved ones to help direct our lives in the right direction. This song is about being in one of those low points and asking for help finding the way out. Gontier sings "there's times I stayed alive for you, there's times I would have died for you," which means that he has been there to help someone else in their low spot but now needs that person to help him. Because the thing about hills is that once you go down, there's always a way back up - he needs help finding that high road to lead him back to the top. The lyrics suggest that this song is perhaps meant for a significant other: "I'll do whatever it takes to be the mistake you can't live without." This implies that the narrator needs guidance so that he can live a better life for the person that he loves.