Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Sheep , by - Bonnie "Prince" Billy. Release date: 16.05.2008
Song language: English
Sheep |
| Born in sheep’s blood plain and simple |
| Washed out of my mother’s temple |
| All around I heard them laughing |
| As father sheep had stood there calving |
| Black they were, with white eyes gleaming |
| Right in heaven life was seeming |
| Brittle wind blew snow upon me |
| I got blanketed all white and frosty |
| In my time I grew and killed them |
| Or out of memory I willed them |
| And willed in a greater history |
| Out of massacre and mystery |
| Was no longer wealthy, woolly |
| Nor anything I could grasp fully |
| Someone rush to re-inject me |
| God of gods, won’t you protect me? |
| Fixed my face and marching onward |
| Marching running ever forward |
| Buildings were a bloody vessel |
| Edging me below the trestle |
| There in coal and whitened gravel |
| I built a shield of wooden baffle |
| Inside of which I raised a fire |
| So I could tonight retire |
| Everyone will tell you it’s evil to be |
| A free-thinking pecker like bonnie old me |
| But I’ll flex my armies and blow out my gut |
| And prove I’ll be loved by any old slut |
| Look here in my wallet, it’s loaded and true |
| And now I can leave here and go and find you |