Songfacts®:

• Brandy Clark was purposely provocative in this song about a bored pot-smoking housewife. She wrote it before launching her solo career, back when she was writing songs for the likes of Miranda Lambert ("Mama's Broken Heart") and The Band Perry ("Better Dig Two"). Understandably, it wasn't the kind of song other artists wanted to partake in, so her publisher refused to demo it. With no takers, Clark recorded it herself and included it on her debut album, 12 Stories.
  
  "I was writing something risqué, because at the time, marijuana was not legal anywhere," she told SeattleMet.
• Though Clark sells a lot of "Get High" merchandise, to her the song "was never about pot." She explained to Radio.com: "It was just the vehicle to tell the story; it was more about escapism and how one woman escapes her life, the parts of her life that are too hard to deal with."
• The stoned housewife Clark sings of here was based on a girl she went to high school with. Clark says that most characters in her songs are drawn from real people in her life.
• Clark learned something about herself when she wrote this song: that she thinks of life "as a dark comedy." You can find evidence of that on another track from the album, "Pray To Jesus," and in her work writing songs for the musical Shucked.