anonymous March 18th, 2008 08:29PM  
June Carter wrote this song about how she felt about Johnny while he was still married to his first wife (I heard that on a TV program about him).

anonymous May 2nd, 2008 07:29PM  
This song is about being in love, meeting your soul mate. The hardest relationship one can ever get into and the most uncontrollable like fire. The ring of fire symbolizes marrying that person. The harder you fall the more passion sparks between you. I went down down down and the flames went higher... The ring of fire.

anonymous March 17th, 2009 09:15AM  
It's about venereal diseases, people!

anonymous June 17th, 2009 03:20PM  
No. The song is about Johnny Cash's addiction to alchohol, amphetamines, and barbiturates and how it interfered with his love life.

har0462 August 28th, 2009 08:41PM  
It is actually about both, falling in love despite the other person's addictions. This song was originally recorded by June's sister, Anita Carter (a very interesting version). Johnny Cash waited to see what the song would do, giving her a chance at it. When it failed, Johnny recorded it a few months later.