OK, this seemed pretty obvious to me, but only one other person seems to have gotten close. I think that it is a man apologizing to a horse for trying to "break" it. To break a horse is to tame it. The horse was probably wild at one time, and kept in a barn "in the cul-de-sac rye seven miles from my[his] front porch" The barn burnt down and the horse ran off."Down the road to the burnt down barn" and "You sprinted away, sprinted away, to where I don't know. God's moving in your bloodstream where the cross beats aren't so slow" This is saying that the horse ran off and that it wanted to get away so badly that it seemed to have the power of God. The horse escaped to a place where life isn't so dull, where it can be fre, or where the cross-beats aren't so slow. He apologizes for keeping it in poor conditions "The stitches in your winter clothes" and "stuck you in the rain alone" and for taking its hair "Your cello bows, we stole your hair to make them" and for putting horseshoes on it, even though it was wild. "We're sorry for the iron shoes we nailed to you" He wants the horse to be free, as a wild stallion is a symbol of freedom. The only part that doesn't fit with this theory is the 4th stanza. That's my two cents.
Could he possibly have seen the horse again/the horse wandered back, he's so shocked he doesn't remember lighting up the gas for illumination, and he's alarmed at how the horse is now older (and possibly ill), with a curved spine and a haunted look in its eyes? That doesn't make much sense, now I read it...
But this is still one of my favourite songs on the album.
Could he possibly have seen the horse again/the horse wandered back, he's so shocked he doesn't remember lighting up the gas for illumination, and he's alarmed at how the horse is now older (and possibly ill), with a curved spine and a haunted look in its eyes? That doesn't make much sense, now I read it...
But this is still one of my favourite songs on the album.
OK, this seemed pretty obvious to me, but only one other person seems to have gotten close. I think that it is a man apologizing to a horse for trying to "break" it. To break a horse is to tame it. The horse was probably wild at one time, and kept in a barn "in the cul-de-sac rye seven miles from my[his] front porch" The barn burnt down and the horse ran off."Down the road to the burnt down barn" and "You sprinted away, sprinted away, to where I don't know. God's moving in your bloodstream where the cross beats aren't so slow" This is saying that the horse ran off and that it wanted to get away so badly that it seemed to have the power of God. The horse escaped to a place where life isn't so dull, where it can be fre, or where the cross-beats aren't so slow. He apologizes for keeping it in poor conditions "The stitches in your winter clothes" and "stuck you in the rain alone" and for taking its hair "Your cello bows, we stole your hair to make them" and for putting horseshoes on it, even though it was wild. "We're sorry for the iron shoes we nailed to you" He wants the horse to be free, as a wild stallion is a symbol of freedom. The only part that doesn't fit with this theory is the 4th stanza. That's my two cents.
i agree completely.
i agree completely.
Could he possibly have seen the horse again/the horse wandered back, he's so shocked he doesn't remember lighting up the gas for illumination, and he's alarmed at how the horse is now older (and possibly ill), with a curved spine and a haunted look in its eyes? That doesn't make much sense, now I read it... But this is still one of my favourite songs on the album.
Could he possibly have seen the horse again/the horse wandered back, he's so shocked he doesn't remember lighting up the gas for illumination, and he's alarmed at how the horse is now older (and possibly ill), with a curved spine and a haunted look in its eyes? That doesn't make much sense, now I read it... But this is still one of my favourite songs on the album.