Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind May 2026

Cross famously admitted to writing the lyrics while on LSD during a drive from Houston to Austin, Texas.

The album’s inner sleeve dedicated the song to Lowell George , the late frontman of Little Feat who had passed away in 1979. Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind

While the melody sounds breezy, the lyrics actually tell the gritty story of a condemned multiple murderer on the run from a death-by-hanging sentence, desperate to reach the Mexican border to be free again. Cross famously admitted to writing the lyrics while