explanation about a song

[Laetitia Christi]

Hi,

I've got a question. My grandmother died last sunday and we cremated her last thursday. During the service there was a song from Katie Melua. The song's called : Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing. My grandfather asked me to translate the song into dutch but in that song there is a phrase I don't understand.

The interlude the text is this:
We're high on the wire
with the world in our sight
and I'll never tire
of the love that you give me every night.

What does the phrase: "we're high on the wire with the world in our sight" mean?


I hope that someone can help my grandfather and me!


Thx!
Gladys

[Anglika]

I think it is using the image of the high wire - like the one is this photograph:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000906/pic2.gif