I feel like this is about a young adult approaching middle age, struggling with breaking ways with their family to make their own way in the world...
"I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road
I'm gonna ride 'til I can't no more"
The refrain to the song, and a personal statement from Lil Nas X. This is a metaphor for following his family's old and outdated traditions (such as travel by horse is), until he can't no more.
"Ridin' on a horse, ha
You can whip your Porsche
I been in the valley
You ain't been up off that porch, now"
Life may be easy for the well-to-do with family money, but he's been in the places where it's difficult to succeed (every valley city in the world) and made it, and they've been resting on the laurels of their family's money.
"Hat down, cross town, livin' like a rockstar
Spent a lot of money on my brand new guitar
Baby's got a habit: diamond rings and Fendi sports bras
Ridin' down Rodeo in my Maserati sports car"
He's getting ahead in the world in his own way.
"Got no stress, I've been through all that
I'm like a Marlboro Man so I kick on back
Wish I could roll on back to that old town road
I wanna ride 'til I can't no more"
At a certain point in life, everything that used to stress you out becomes the new
normal and you get used to living with that uncertainty... but it's normal to wish you were back under your family's wing again, until you remember why you left in the first place.
I feel like this is about a young adult approaching middle age, struggling with breaking ways with their family to make their own way in the world...
"I'm gonna take my horse to the old town road I'm gonna ride 'til I can't no more"
The refrain to the song, and a personal statement from Lil Nas X. This is a metaphor for following his family's old and outdated traditions (such as travel by horse is), until he can't no more.
"Ridin' on a horse, ha You can whip your Porsche I been in the valley You ain't been up off that porch, now"
Life may be easy for the well-to-do with family money, but he's been in the places where it's difficult to succeed (every valley city in the world) and made it, and they've been resting on the laurels of their family's money.
"Hat down, cross town, livin' like a rockstar Spent a lot of money on my brand new guitar Baby's got a habit: diamond rings and Fendi sports bras Ridin' down Rodeo in my Maserati sports car"
He's getting ahead in the world in his own way.
"Got no stress, I've been through all that I'm like a Marlboro Man so I kick on back Wish I could roll on back to that old town road I wanna ride 'til I can't no more"
At a certain point in life, everything that used to stress you out becomes the new normal and you get used to living with that uncertainty... but it's normal to wish you were back under your family's wing again, until you remember why you left in the first place.