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Wash up
Bowl of mush
Look I made America
Hush hush
Don't don't rush
Time for quiet
Time to brush
Brown wine
Turpentine
Everything will be just fine
Sleep now
Never fear
All your animals are here
Counting sheep
I lay me down to sleep
But I see a sheep that will not leave
From the back they catch him in a trap
Hit his head and send him off to bed
Cutting by numbers is kinder
Invest in one with a silencer
All of the studies say if they're
Calm when they die then they taste better
Cutting by numbers is kinder
Invest in the one with the silencer
All of the studies say if they're
Calm when they die then they taste better
Goodbye
Olive sky
I am crying all the time
There there
Don't despair
We will find your sheep somewhere
Bowl of mush
Look I made America
Hush hush
Don't don't rush
Time for quiet
Time to brush
Brown wine
Turpentine
Everything will be just fine
Sleep now
Never fear
All your animals are here
Counting sheep
I lay me down to sleep
But I see a sheep that will not leave
From the back they catch him in a trap
Hit his head and send him off to bed
Cutting by numbers is kinder
Invest in one with a silencer
All of the studies say if they're
Calm when they die then they taste better
Cutting by numbers is kinder
Invest in the one with the silencer
All of the studies say if they're
Calm when they die then they taste better
Goodbye
Olive sky
I am crying all the time
There there
Don't despair
We will find your sheep somewhere
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CHANGE OF PLAN:
its about war. maybe "red brush...look i made america" is about blood, and america's involvement in a lot of wars. " dont try to care too much" is to me about people becoming unfeeling killing machines.
the third stanza makes me think of some terrifying nightmare "counting sheep" and the music is consistent with a nightmare... in keeping with the war theme, PTSD maybe?
"cutting by numbers is kinder" - genocide or slaughter
"invest in one with a silencer. All of the studies say if theyre calm when they die they taste better" - this is a bit outside the square, but i see that as saying if you keep whatever events quiet (silent), and calm, it tastes better only because the media cant get to a story if its been silenced.
the last stanza is definitrly about regret. regretting that one was in a war? maybe they lost their friends/family? but regret all the same.
and thats my very crazy thought.
I kind of thought the same thing as mixitup. The song reminded me of another song by A Perfect Circle. It goes like "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drum" which rather explicit in its message about how lives are taken by war every second, but America seems lulled by the numbers, unaffected by the carnage. I find "The Sheep Song" much more poetic in this comparison, however.<br /> <br /> Then again, I think I try to relate every song I hear to politics... :|
@mixitup - I agree with all of this.