Story Behind The Song

Life, love and a marriage from beginning to end told using a rodeo as a metaphor

Song Description

I worte it from the title as I was in the process of moving to Nashville in 1994.

Lyrics

They all said that we were crazy
Your mama thought that we were young
Your daddy said I was just plain lazy
Not fit to wed his number one
But the dream we'd saddled up
We rode hard like a bronking buck
We stole off for forever
With our love and a little luck
They prayed to good lord travel with us as we go
Riding in that blue rodeo

So wild eyed we left Texas
And settled down in Tennessee
But when that dream we'd saddled left us
We barely noticed it was free
So we took to life with scorn
Like some bull grabbed by the horn
We wrestled and we wrangled
Got up and asked for more
But when just livin' is the only thing you know
Your just a rider in some blue rodeo

Bridge:
Thought that we could rope and ride the wind
Thought those days of luck and love would never end
Still for all our denying
We can't help but keep on trying
To find flame beneath the ashes
And search for roses in the snow
A along we're just riders
In this blue rodeo

20 years and two kids later
We shared little but a home
One day I looked up from my paper
And found that you were truly gone
And that dream we'd hope to ride
Had long since gone and died
So we dust our chaps pick up or hats
And walk away with pride
Saying' fare the well now darlin' as you go
Ridin' in that blue rodeo

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