Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
I'm a hussar, I'm a Hun, I'm a wretched Englishman
Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo
I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run
I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through
I?m a horse soldier, eternal, through and through
I's with Custer and the 7th in ?76 or ?77
Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux
And the tears and devistation of a once proud warrior nation
This I know ?cause I was riding with them too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan
On the frozen Mongol steppe when at his height
I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse guard
When Romanov was murdered in the night
I knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians
Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy drafts
And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling Saracen
And once again against myself was cast
Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you listen
You'll know that it was with them that I stood
When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen died
Gunned down in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the firstest with the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest
Suffered General Wilson's Union raid
Mine was not to reason why, mine was but to do and die
At Crimea with the charging light brigade
On hire from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen
The devil to the sabre I shall put
With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber
Striking terror into regiment of foot
I knew my days were numbered when o?er the trenches lumbered
More modern machinations de la guerre
No match for rapid fire or the steel birds of the sky
With a final rear guard action I retreat
No match for barbered wire or the armoured engines whine
Reluctant I retire and take my leave
Today I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses
Dostum?s Northern Alliance give their thanks
No matter defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me
That we may see a swelling in our ranks
I?s with the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed
And with the Polish lancers charging German tanks
Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the White House down
And cursed the sack of York and sons of Yanks
Routing Bonaparte at Waterloo
I'm a dragoon on a dun, I'm a Cossack on the run
I'm a horse soldier, timeless, through and through
I?m a horse soldier, eternal, through and through
I's with Custer and the 7th in ?76 or ?77
Scalped at Little Big Horn by the Sioux
And the tears and devistation of a once proud warrior nation
This I know ?cause I was riding with them too
I drank mare's blood on the run when I rode with the Great Khan
On the frozen Mongol steppe when at his height
I's a White Guard, I's a Red Guard, I's the Tsar's own palace horse guard
When Romanov was murdered in the night
I knew Salah al-Din and rode his swift Arabians
Harassing doomed crusaders on their heavy drafts
And yet I rode the Percheron against the circling Saracen
And once again against myself was cast
Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you listen
You'll know that it was with them that I stood
When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen died
Gunned down in scarlet, coldest blood
I's the firstest with the mostest when I fought for Bedford Forrest
Suffered General Wilson's Union raid
Mine was not to reason why, mine was but to do and die
At Crimea with the charging light brigade
On hire from Swiss or Sweden, be me Christian, be me heathen
The devil to the sabre I shall put
With a crack flanking maneuver, I'm an uhlan alles uber
Striking terror into regiment of foot
I knew my days were numbered when o?er the trenches lumbered
More modern machinations de la guerre
No match for rapid fire or the steel birds of the sky
With a final rear guard action I retreat
No match for barbered wire or the armoured engines whine
Reluctant I retire and take my leave
Today I ride with special forces on those wily Afghan horses
Dostum?s Northern Alliance give their thanks
No matter defeat or victory, in battle it occurs to me
That we may see a swelling in our ranks
I?s with the Aussies at Beersheba took the wells so badly needed
And with the Polish lancers charging German tanks
Saw Ross' mount shot down at Washingtown the night we burned the White House down
And cursed the sack of York and sons of Yanks
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This is such a great song about the history of the horse soldier. My favorite line is "Well I've worn the Mounties crimson, if you're silent and you listen You'll know that it was with them that I stood When Mayerthorpe, she cried, as her four horsemen died, Gunned down in scarlet, coldest blood"
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This is a very information-dense song! Corb really did a lot of research on this song to bring it all together. Here's what I've got:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cossack
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_movement (I's a White Guard...) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedGuards(Russia) (I's a Red Guard...) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution (I's a Tsar's old palace horse guard, when Romanov was murdered in the night)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracen
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayerthorpe_tragedy (In Mayerthorpe she cried...)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_Raid en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhlan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum (Dostum's Northern Alliance) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Alliance (Dostum's Northern Alliance)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_ofBeersheba(1917) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Krojanty (Polish lancers charging german tanks) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RobertRoss(British_Army_officer) (saw Ross shot down) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812 (the night we burned the white house down) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_York (the sack of York)
Special Forces should be capitalized as it's a proper noun: US Army Special Forces (nickname Green Berets). No other units used horses in Afghanistan....