Runaway Horses
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About Runaway Horses
This song finds Brandon Flowers recounting the story of him and an ambitious "small town girl." They fall in love and she puts her dreams on ice so they can marry. But the "runaway horses" eventually change courses and go on different paths. Flowers wrote this as a duet and recruited Phoebe Bridgers to add a "female element" to the vocals. He told NME: "She has a little bit of Wild West in her. She has rodeo people in her bloodline. She brought a sadness to the song that's integral to it, but also inherent in her. .
Runaway Horses Lyrics
[00:00.10] Oh my heck, so, yeah, the Ute Stampede
[00:03.64] I mean, that's a tradition for sure
[00:05.41] Um, one year we were- it was raining all, like, stampedes
[00:10.02] And this horse come out
[00:11.09] And everyone, you know, said it was supposed to be the best
[00:14.12] And it fell in the mud and
[00:16.23] I mean, you could see its leg just totally snapped
[00:19.01] It was just hanging there
[00:20.83] And the girl, you know, laid down
[00:23.36] It was the saddest thing, I mean
[00:24.91] I think most of the crowd was crying
[00:26.93] She sat up and laid over her horse
[00:29.02] And just cried and hugged her horse
[00:31.06] And, 'cause she knew that
[00:33.32] You know, that was her last moments with that horse
[00:36.45]
[00:47.36] Small town girl
[00:52.10] Coca-Cola grin, honeysuckle skin
[00:57.89] Born beneath the ready sign of a strawberry moon
[01:07.16] Small town girl
[01:12.09] Shows up for her friends, crazy 'bout The Bends
[01:17.79] I was there when she first put away childish things
[01:27.56] We had spring in our heels
[01:32.74] Unwavering forces
[01:37.85] Head first into the unknown
[01:47.35] Like runaway horses
[01:51.15] In a fever till the end
[01:56.18] And every step is a silver prayer
[02:01.05] In the face of a hard wind
[02:08.92] You traded school
[02:13.88] For wedding rings and rent, invitations sent
[02:19.53] Of you and him by a barn out on the edge of town
[02:28.72] Small town girl
[02:33.75] Put your dreams on ice, never thinking twice
[02:39.26] Some you'll surely forget and some that you never will
[02:49.37] There was a promise in our stride
[02:54.19] But we changed courses
[02:59.39] Head first into the unknown
[03:09.33] Like runaway horses
[03:12.93] In a fever till the end
[03:18.18] And every step is a silver prayer
[03:22.98] In the face of a hard wind
[03:26.50] Like runaway horses
[03:30.40] It's a long way back home again
[03:35.67] When every step is a silver prayer
[03:40.23] In the face of a hard wind
[03:44.37]
[00:03.64] I mean, that's a tradition for sure
[00:05.41] Um, one year we were- it was raining all, like, stampedes
[00:10.02] And this horse come out
[00:11.09] And everyone, you know, said it was supposed to be the best
[00:14.12] And it fell in the mud and
[00:16.23] I mean, you could see its leg just totally snapped
[00:19.01] It was just hanging there
[00:20.83] And the girl, you know, laid down
[00:23.36] It was the saddest thing, I mean
[00:24.91] I think most of the crowd was crying
[00:26.93] She sat up and laid over her horse
[00:29.02] And just cried and hugged her horse
[00:31.06] And, 'cause she knew that
[00:33.32] You know, that was her last moments with that horse
[00:36.45]
[00:47.36] Small town girl
[00:52.10] Coca-Cola grin, honeysuckle skin
[00:57.89] Born beneath the ready sign of a strawberry moon
[01:07.16] Small town girl
[01:12.09] Shows up for her friends, crazy 'bout The Bends
[01:17.79] I was there when she first put away childish things
[01:27.56] We had spring in our heels
[01:32.74] Unwavering forces
[01:37.85] Head first into the unknown
[01:47.35] Like runaway horses
[01:51.15] In a fever till the end
[01:56.18] And every step is a silver prayer
[02:01.05] In the face of a hard wind
[02:08.92] You traded school
[02:13.88] For wedding rings and rent, invitations sent
[02:19.53] Of you and him by a barn out on the edge of town
[02:28.72] Small town girl
[02:33.75] Put your dreams on ice, never thinking twice
[02:39.26] Some you'll surely forget and some that you never will
[02:49.37] There was a promise in our stride
[02:54.19] But we changed courses
[02:59.39] Head first into the unknown
[03:09.33] Like runaway horses
[03:12.93] In a fever till the end
[03:18.18] And every step is a silver prayer
[03:22.98] In the face of a hard wind
[03:26.50] Like runaway horses
[03:30.40] It's a long way back home again
[03:35.67] When every step is a silver prayer
[03:40.23] In the face of a hard wind
[03:44.37]
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