Literal Horse or Metaphorical? (Wildfire)
Wildfire is a song about a horse. The lyrics themselves mention a woman upon that horse, so it’s easy to assume that it’s a love song, but Michael Martin Murphy, who wrote it, wasn’t thinking about a woman, but an actual mystical horse from the stories he’d heard from his grandfather as a kid.
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The horse itself is neither literal nor metaphorical; it could be either one, depending on how you want to see it – as a horse to ride upon, or as a metaphor to getting away from hard times. Even Murphy himself says he isn’t sure, and that he’d leave it up to interpretation.