No band, just me and I'm no performer
Story behind the song
This started out as a song about a cowboy who rides into my life on a white horse to save me. Like that would ever happen. Then it devolved into something else entirely.
Lyrics
HE RIDES
Ricki E. Bellos
Daddy came from a broken home
Shattered hearts and fractured bones
Just a matter of time before he’d move on down the line
Worked real hard to buy his first bike
Cherry red with loud straight pipes
Left without warning on a sunny Sunday morning
Knew he’d never be sorry
Just him and his Harley
He rides
Out of the blue into Mama’s life
He rides
Mama said when he rode to town
Made her weak and her young heart pound
It didn’t take them long though her pa said it was wrong
She’d wrap herself around him tight
Holding on with all her might
Loved to ride behind him with loving arms to hold him
Never said he’d stay
But made it to my tenth birthday
He rides, he rides
Into the night out of our lives
He rides
My Daddy rides
I think about him more and more
Wondering what he left us for
Mama said as she died we had a likeness in the eyes
Now I have a child of my own
Who holds me in this one horse town
Dreamed I followed in his steps and headed for the west
I still have this photograph
Of the bike, them and me in his lap
I ride, I ride
Just ahead of the storm for the rest of my life
I ride
Watch me ride
Wonder if Mama would have felt the same
If Daddy rode up in a pickup truck
© Ricki E. Bellos
