One more drink tonight as your gray stallion rests
Where he lays in the reins
For all of the speed and the strength he gave

One more kiss tonight from some tall stable girl
She's like grace from the earth
When you're all tuckered out and tame

One more tired thing the gray moon on the rise
When your want from the day
Makes you to curse in your sleep at night

One more gift to bring we may well find you laid
Like your steed in his reins
Tangled too tight and too long to fight



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    Translation:I though it'd be helpful to also know the Spanish lyrics. Here is a rough transcript (the grammar is a bit off)

    (Spanish)
    Ya pense que jamas, tener la oportunidad
    De encontrar el camino y luego formar
    Un mundo mejor

    (Translation)
    I thought I'd never have the chance
    Of encountering the path to then create
    A better world

    Obviously the translation doesn't sound quite as poetic.

    One of the most beautiful songs I know.
    Flag polirdon August 02, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Hey!
    You guys completely miss the overall meaning of the song. Its about a conquistador at the end of his life. The clue is his "steed." the Spaniards introduced Horses to the Americas. They are what enabled the Spaniards to conquer the Aztec and the Incas. The horse is a metaphor for the Spaniards power.
    "Laying in the Reins" is a metaphor for the waning power of the Spanish Empire.
    Read some history. For your sake.
    Flag skippybangbangon January 13, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I'm trying to not read anyone else's interpretation and to just say what it means to me and I'll look later. To me the song's about a feeling. An end to a road, and you're just so, so tired from it all that you finally get to sit down, but it's knowing that you can't keep going. You're just too exhausted. You're too tame. You've spent so much time fighting, shouting, that now all you can do is stable your horse and sit down. Your road is at an end and it's time for you to relax.

    It's got that sort of feeling to it, like you've spent the whole day walking in the sun and you finally sit down in your cabin when it rains, and you've finally got water and food and you're just so content.
    Flag Tarvoson September 28, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:OK first a small fixture, at least in my own mind. When you want a horse to go a certain direction, what do you do? You "angle" the reigns in the direction you want them to head. I figure that this is the correct wording, therefore "angled" and not "tangled". I apologize if this was mentioned before.

    Second as a single father who wants everything to do with his daughter in a land who favors the mother, I can see this song in a different light. Especially when emotionally twisted to believe that you can find something where there is truly nothing to find. I see a man, bending to lies, presented love, and a will stronger than his simply because he wishes to believe. Now after so long, he finds himself tired, not ready to give up, but as a horse ridden to long, he tries but cannot rise. Now he is left broken.
    Flag soothsayer061on January 10, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:oh and the old grey stallion could also be his wife, whoes old and such and isn't fit for racing or hard work, but she gave it a good go. he thinks of this while he lays in another womans arms and takes another drink/kiss for the end of their day and the deteriration of their marriage.
    Flagged foxlilly5on January 30, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song has somewhat of a sexual conutation to it as well. I don't have my head in the gutter but lay in the reigns could parallel to laying in his arms, all the speed and strength he gave...

    I'm guessing this song is about a married couple whoes love and passion is withering out, its about a man cheating in a way through emotions and a kiss with a tall stable girl who is probably younger but also more passionate, and it feels like grace from the earth coming out of a boring marriage but still it doesn't feel right. And now his want from that day makes him curse his sleep at night while he lays next to his wife, he's now tangled in his own string of lies and guilt. But he is much too tired to fight for his marriage anymore. So he gives in.

    This is just what I thought about it. The spanish part could be about him imagining himself starting over in a new marriage, maybe with this new girl he met and picturing what life would be like with her.
    Flag foxlilly5on January 30, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:the "tangled too tight and too long to fight" line maybe alludes more to materialism than living in the moment. One more drink and kiss and this and that leads to one more and one more and one more which all leads to despair. I need one more to get one more until i'm too wrapped up in the pursuit to gain anything else but STUFF. pretty loose idea based one a handful of lines, but hell, maybe there's something to this.
    Flag Peaucharleson February 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:one of the best songs i've heart in along time. it may become one of my favourite. i can not stop listenig. although i really love to amalise lyrics this one is rally hard to make sens of.
    Flag thefakerthebetteron October 25, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:wow this is really awesome
    Flag starX93on September 13, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:also Less Than Seven, you're right! you just listed my four favourite bands
    Flag Godzukion August 11, 2007   Link

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