In the classic 1983 single "Little Red Corvette", Prince adopted car- and horse-riding metaphors to describe a relationship with a promiscuous (='loose moral') woman (Personal note: wouldn't a Mustang, instead of Corvette, serve a better metaphor for the two imageries?). The chorus repeatedly pleads to her (the car) to "slow down" because she was going "much too fast".
Anyways, the start of the second verse (1:04 in the above video) is literary gold, almost Shakespearean:
"I guess I shoulda closed my eyes
When you drove me to the place where your horses run free
I felt a little ill
When I saw all the pictures, of the jockeys that were there before me..."
LOLZ.
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