The song’s tune has an intro and outro of a piano which invites listeners to depict the mood and tone of the song all the way through. The song is said to pay tribute to the bravery and hardships of our ancestors, and it is simply a masterpiece. Furthermore, some speculate that Wildfire is a metaphor for a situation that pushes you away from hard times. The kitchen staff was ecstatic to be the first group of people to hear the music before it was released.

The song’s first audience was a kitchen staff who were treated to a mini concert because Murphey wanted a second opinion about the song. READ: The meaning of the lyrics to “The A Team” by Ed Sheeran

For Murphey, the savior aspect comes in when he can go back to his native state because he fell out with most of his friends who were into the culture of free sex and drugs. He indirectly symbolizes the horse as a savior or freedom, though Wildfire is seen to be supernatural. He goes back to where Jesus Christ is said to come back on a white horse in the book of Revelation. It also reflects Biblically since Murphey was brought up in a Christian household with deep Christian beliefs. The song draws attention mainly to the audience, who feel they could disappear like the pony to escape their troubles and hard times. The music, however, touches on suicidal thoughts by the homesteader, mental illness, and depression since he only thinks of the ghost girl and the pony, Wildfire. Murphey agreed that his recalls of the tales by his grandfather in his dream subconsciously made him wove them into a song that has then been a hit for its background. Its background brings back tales of Native American ghost legends, and fans believe that Murphey wrote the song based on actual events which prompted him to write it. The story was an outstanding legend From Native Americans about a horse who was a ghost.

A story he was given by his grandfather when he was younger, a little boy to be precise, is how the song came by. Michael Murphey believes that as he was a student in his third year, he worked on Kenny Rogers’ concept album that took most of his time, he dreamed of the story of the song one evening bringing its wholeness, composing it fully in little time the following day. Murphey explains the great debut single to be more of a blessing than a curse to his decade career in music. Described as soft rock, the country genre gives out its somber story. The LP version of the song is four minutes and forty-seven minutes, while the single edit version plays for three minutes and fifteen seconds. It gained popularity as the lead single in February in the year 1975. It was written by Larry Cansler and Michael Murphy. It rekindles the light of a weary soul to have hope and enlightens a sad soul. Michael Martin Murphey’s song titled Wildfire resettles feelings that may be lost and forgotten.

Soul Lifter by Martin Murphy