Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Sheep, artist - Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
Date of issue: 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 |