| Christy Moore – Ride On Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Well although you can see almost any lover-parting scenario here, the most probable is that the song is originally meant to be lament of a girl, whose lover is leaving for the army. The fine horse is obviously a military horse, and war is one of the few environments, where women just don't go unless forced. The only hazy phrase is "run your claw along my gut", which might mean either physical symptoms of emotional pain ("hurts as if my belly got sliced"), or be a rather graphic depiction of a sexual intercourse ("the claw" being a penis, which - literally - runs "along the gut"). Since folk songs tend to be both eerily fragile and explicit at times, I would even think the latter option is more probable. Feelings of emotional distress tend to be associated with heart, rather than with the gut. |
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