What do you think Flying Horses means?

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Flying Horses Lyrics


the river of doubt gave birth to a beautiful stone
and in my hands I held it and I knew I was on my own
so I picked it up and held it to the sky
and in my reflection. I knew I was all alone
then I saw this girl with the most beautiful...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jun 7th 2017 !⃝

    This song is about how when you grow up, you lose material things like beauty or your looks (the lock of hair) or money (the beautiful, perhaps valuable stone), but you keep your childhood memories. The ring from the carousel represents his treasured childhood memories that have stuck with him as he has grown up. Despite finding and losing other things, his childhood will never leave him.

  2. anonymous
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     Sep 3rd 2014 !⃝

    On marthas vineyard in Oak Bluffs there is a merry go round called Flying Horses where you sit on a horse and try to grab these rings as you go by. It has become quite rusty as of late hence those lyrics. He spent a lot of time on the island.

  3. anonymous
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     May 2nd 2009 !⃝

    My interpretation is about learning to lose the things closest to you as you grow old... everything that he gained while he was young was lost or destroyed... he lost the girls hair (his young sweetheart)... the ring he got was rusty (like said before the flying horses merry-go-round ring he got when he was a is rusty and lost its essence) and the stone that fell through his pocket (is all others that slipped through his grasp). the badger and toad are used in fairy tales as symbols of wisdom that shows that he must be ready to lose it all as he progresses through this life

  4. anonymous
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     Nov 25th 2008 !⃝

    I believe the song shows that you shouldn't try to hold on to things and mess with nature. Things are a lot better on their own "beauty like that knows no home", "they are much happier on their own"

    He tried to capture the beauty of the stone and the lock of hair but lost them both. Then he captured the ring and it began to rust. These things should be set free because you can not capture beauty it must be left alone.
    "the wise old look of the old" is that the old already know this.

  5. anonymous
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     Oct 5th 2007 !⃝

    In my opinion the song does not have anything to do with love, at least not with love as an essential part of the song!

    In New England there's a Flying Horses merry-go-round where you get a free ride when you "steal" ring from the middle while your going!

    He sings "... I stole a ring from the Flying Horses, and it's all rusty now"

    I think the songs show the way of growing old, you're a young boy and ride on the Flying Horses and many years later the ring ring you got became rusty!

    The Girl described in the text somehow reminds me of the Venus Medici (painting by Botticelli)("when I saw this girl with the most beautiful hair
    she had it wrapped around her for clothes she did not wear")
    The fact that her lock flew away with the wind does also show how much time already has gone by.
    In my opinion the song shows the process of growing older, first you're a young boy, but not long and you're an older person looking back to the times he was still young

  6. anonymous
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     Jun 26th 2006 !⃝

    This song, I think, can be interpreted in many ways. When I first heard this song I loved it. But as I started listening to the words, I was a little confused, but after listening to it like 20 times, I think I got it. Remember, this is "my" interpretation of it.

    I think it's they way you feel when you fall in love. The stone, metaphorically, being his love for a girl. Then he meets the girl. It's like he's so in love with her, he see's things in a different way. Then in the second verse, it's like they broke up because he lost his love for her (You see cause that stone, fell through my pocket and that lock of hair flew away with the wind).

    This interpretation may be wrong, but like I said, this is what "I" thought the song meant.

    -Tyler


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