Although "Ring of Fire '' sounds ominous, the term refers to falling in love -- which is what June Carter was experiencing with Johnny Cash at the time. Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase "Love is like a burning ring of fire, '' underlined in one of her uncle A.P. Carter 's Elizabethan books of poetry. She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past. She had written: "There is no way to be in that kind of hell, no way to extinguish a flame that burns, burns, burns ''.
what is the burning ring of fire song about
falling in love