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 * Wild horses – The Rolling Stones **

__LYRICS __

Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day
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__SUMMARY __


 * Why I chose this song
 * Introduction
 * Analysis of the lyrics



I chose ‘Wild horses’ because it has a great meaning under its lyrics and because it is actually beautifully written. Its message is simple but stark which makes the song one of the most significant for me.
 * the lyrics are meaningful / are full of meaning
 * which makes the song all the more significant for me / one of the most significant songs that I know

‘Wild horses’ is a song from The Rolling Stones from their 1971 album ‘Sticky Fingers’. The original version was written by Keith Richards wanting to portray his feelings when he had to leave home and his new-born baby for work. Afterwards, Mick Jagger edited its lyrics so that they fit in a love-song describing his relationship with Marianne Fatihfull maintaining the chorus ‘Wild horses couldn’t drag me away.’

Although there are different stories for this song, my interpretation is related to Keith Richards’ first draft: about a father-daughter relationship.

As I mentioned before, the words are more suited to the relationship between a father and her estranged daughter. Rolling Stone placed ‘Wild horses’ at position 334 in the ‘Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of the history of 2004’. It vibrates with melancholy and love, giving the whole composition a touch of pureness.
 * purity

There are three verses and a chorus which altogether portray a touching and moving meaning. Its opening line portrays how easy life is when you are a child, with no preoccupations and responsibilities, referring to how quick time passes by. Which is then followed by a line of regretting how things worked up and questioning himself why if he theoretically managed to comply with his duties. ‘ <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 14px;">Childhood living is easy to do. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 14px;">The things you wanted I bought them for you <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif';">.’
 * portray a scene
 * provide a meaning / emanate meaning

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 14px;">In general, the first verse is directly towards his daughter, ‘Graceless lady you know who I am. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 14px;">You know I can't let you slide through my hands’, portraying that he cannot lose her, the expression of unconditional love towards her and how he can’t get away from her so easily. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 14px;">The chorus speaks for himself: ‘Wild horses couldn't drag me away. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 14px;">Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away’. Showing how nevertheless the distance or difficulties they can encounter to be together, his love towards her will remain forever. It evokes love and devotion in an artistically beautiful way. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'lucida bright',serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The second verse is of great importance to the meaning of the song as it explains how this ‘dull aching pain’ she felt when he frustrated her in a nasty and sad way, it is now inside him as she does not accept him anymore. It expresses how this feeling of loss, of painful loss, is reciprocal within a time distance. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'lucida bright',serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'lucida bright',serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The final verse starts with ‘I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie’ referring to how her father accepts his errors and how he does not ‘have much time’ to fix it all up, to fix the life she’s chosen and to mend everything. ‘Faith has been broken, tears must be cried’ is used to show understanding as he wronged her through a broken home. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'lucida bright',serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The most essential and significant line in my opinion is ‘let’s do some living after we die’. It portrays a similarity with Romeo and Juliet, using freedom and liberation to show that although they cannot be together in the world, he is hoping that they can in the next. It is completely an idealistic and bittersweet lyric, by far the most compelling of the song. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'lucida bright',serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">The chorus in the last verse changes its meaning slightly as, leading to the end of the song, expresses the desire and hope of finally being together in the other world, living their dreams together: ‘Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them someday.’
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright',serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">speaks for itself
 * I like the sentence and the repetition, but what does 'within a time distance' mean?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Bright','serif'; font-size: 14px;">To conclude, ‘Wild horses’ is an outstanding song with a great power and message that deserves to be heard. **