He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
Like this
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Ain't got a hope in hell
Of puttin' my pieces back together again
I've seen things in my life that should never be seen
I'm talkin' things that'd make your skin crawl
I want to go back to a simpler time
Where nothin' really mattered at all
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Parents think I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me
'Cause I just want to go back
You see I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, one time
Well, the whole world thinks I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me, no
'Cause I just want to go back
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Getting back, back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again like this
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Ain't got a hope in hell
Of puttin' my pieces back together again
I've seen things in my life that should never be seen
I'm talkin' things that'd make your skin crawl
I want to go back to a simpler time
Where nothin' really mattered at all
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Parents think I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me
'Cause I just want to go back
You see I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, one time
Well, the whole world thinks I'm crazy
And the doctor says I cracked
But they don't understand me, no
'Cause I just want to go back
You see, I can't sleep all night long
Tossin' and a-turnin'
Thoughts they keep a-churnin'
I can't sleep all night long
As a matter of fact
I just want to get back
Back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again, get back
Getting back, back to the rockin' horse
Back to where it all began
Take me back, back to the rockin' horse
And start all over again like this
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Back To The Rocking Horse Lyrics as written by Bret Michaels Bobby Dall
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He certainly did earn that reputation.
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Like a lot of the other comments are saying, I think this mainly about voyeurism. If the song was about his girlfriend, then why would he use the word spy. If you are a spy it means you shouldn't be caught, that is kind of the whole point, and if you are a voyeur, the whole point of the pleasure you get from it, is the fact that the other people don't know you are watching them. See a bit of a connection there?
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
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this song is about how much easier it was as a little kid.. god what i would to be little again!! not having work or responsibility..innocence (from poison, right?! hehe)
I think it's about masturbating. Ever read the short story, "The Rocking Horse Winner"? A Rocking Horse was used as a metaphor for it in that story. Tossing and turning, thoughts keep churning? It seems pretty obvious.
Its pretty obvious it has more to do with reflecting back on an earlier time in ones life and wishing life were like that again where things seemed simpler, as opposed to of all things - masterbation. Just because you read a story about masterbation and it had "rocking horse" in the title doesnt mean thats what this song is about. I think you're reading a little too much into the "Tossin and turning, thoughts keep churning" lyrics. The rocking horse represents youth and innocence, "a simpler time where nothing really mattered at all." NOT masterbation, ya sick perv.
It's a reflection-song about how life sucks when you grow up. Life was way better when he was an innocent child and he misses it and he would give everything to get back to those times when nothing really mattered at all. There's nothing to be interpreted in this song. I wonder what the guy of the "masturbating comment" has in his mind to see masturbation in this song.