Higher Love

The speaker describes being swept up by a powerful love that feels more intense than ordinary emotion. At first, the feeling is vivid but hard to touch or explain; it then grows into a force that seems to lift the speaker beyond everyday limits. The repeated word “moved” suggests both strong emotion and being carried somewhere by that emotion.

Several images make this feeling seem physical and spiritual at once. The “burning” soul suggests passion, not necessarily literal pain, while the “warm glow” evokes a lasting sense of comfort or presence. Being “lifted higher” and “heaven bound on the wings of love” present love as elevation and escape from what holds a person down. The speaker’s surrender of control also suggests giving in completely to desire.

“Higher love” may mean an intense romantic attachment, a spiritual devotion, or a blend of both. The lyrics do not specify who or what the love is directed toward, so either reading remains possible. The language of sacrifice and surrender sounds ecstatic, but it also hints at the risks of letting one consuming feeling guide everything.