| Wild Horses | |
| Cover: | Garth Brooks - Wild Horses.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Garth Brooks |
| Album: | No Fences |
| Released: | November 20, 2000 |
| Recorded: | 1990 (instruments) 2000 (vocals) |
| Studio: | Jack's Tracks (Nashville, Tennessee) |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 3:08 |
| Label: | Capitol Nashville |
| Producer: | Allen Reynolds |
| Prev Title: | Katie Wants a Fast One |
| Prev Year: | 2000 |
| Next Title: | Beer Run (B Double E Double Are You In?) |
| Next Year: | 2001 |
"Wild Horses" is a song co-written by Bill Shore and David Wills, recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks on his breakthrough album No Fences in 1990. The song was not released as a single until November 2000, when it was released with a re-recorded vocal track.[1] It peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
On the surface, this song is about a cowboy's struggle between the love of the rodeo life and the love of a woman. He repeatedly promises to her that he will quit riding, but repeatedly breaks these promises because "wild horses keep dragging [him] away." As the song progresses he's preparing to "make her one more promise that [he] can't keep." It can be interpreted to be about a man who is repeatedly unfaithful and is forgiven, but knows his significant other will eventually stop forgiving him ("The way I love the rodeo / I guess I should let her go / before I hurt her more than she loves me").