Rocking Horse [Bad English featuring Ricky Phillips]

Rocking Horse
Written by John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon
Lead Vocals by John Waite

Desert highway to a memory

I said that I'd come back for you

By the jukebox at the starlight grill

Kickin' out an Elvis tune

Are you waitin' little sister

Killin' time and dreamin' too

You need a fraction of long distance love

I'm driving all night for you, yeah

I'm gonna be there in a big way

You can leave the radio on

Like an outlaw

Like Jesse James

Another hundred miles is gone

Sunrise to sundown

I'm gonna turn you around

Yeah

Baby I've been so lonely

What am I s'posed to do,

Out in the zone of passion

Out of my head for you

Baby my hearts a mustang

Just let it run its course

Take it up by the river

I'm gonna give you more

Ride the rockin' horse

Hey ride the rockin' horse

Yeah

Got the top down

Wishin' on a star

Underneath the Spanish moon

Golden earring's on the radio

"Radar Love" is coming through

She's a station on the interstate

I'm coming with a message of love

In the saddle you can ride all night

Rock your reins around my glove yeah

Sunrise to sundown

I'm gonna turn you around yeah

Baby I've been so lonely

What's a man supposed to do

Out in the zone of passion

Out of my head for you

Proof papa's got the fever

Just let it run it's course

Take it up by the river

I'm gonna give you more

Ride the rockin' horse

Hey

Ride the rockin' horse

Baby I've been so

Baby I've been so

Baby I've been so lonely

(ride the rockin' horse)

Lo-lo-lo-lo-lonely

Lonely

Yeah

Baby I've been so

Out of my head for you

Whoah

(ride the rockin' horse)

Baby I've been so lonely

Baby baby baby

(ride the rockin' horse)

Babe I've been so lonely

What am I gonna do

Thank you New York

Ride the rockin' horse

Ride the rockin' horse

Ride the rockin' horse

Interpretation

On a long drive to see his girl, listening to music and looking forward to a night of passion.  Reflecting on the night he promised to come back. Elvis Presley was playing on a jukebox. As he drives, Radar Love by Golden Earring is playing on the radio. The Spanish Moon overhead a metaphorical reference to a song by Little Feat. Driving a Mustang with the top down has a double meaning, as his heart is a mustang, a wild horse in the American west, and he wants her to "rock (her) reigns around (his) glove" while she rides the "rocking horse."