I seem to think it's about poor or peasant like people that hold onto strange and outdated superstitions
in the hope that things will get better or that they might receive gifts or blessings later in life. The
allegories expressed in the song suggest witchcraft IMO: we come alone and leave alone and we look the horse
in mouth/we scratch the skin and break the bone and see bird migrating south as well as telling stories by
stumpside. Wishes and superstition that keep a person going with their hard and mundane life while the meaning
and the outcome sometimes escapes them. The music also has a haunting sadness that seems to accent this
possiblity.
I seem to think it's about poor or peasant like people that hold onto strange and outdated superstitions in the hope that things will get better or that they might receive gifts or blessings later in life. The allegories expressed in the song suggest witchcraft IMO: we come alone and leave alone and we look the horse in mouth/we scratch the skin and break the bone and see bird migrating south as well as telling stories by stumpside. Wishes and superstition that keep a person going with their hard and mundane life while the meaning and the outcome sometimes escapes them. The music also has a haunting sadness that seems to accent this possiblity.
@Oh Injury! I definitely got "witch" with the line "Animals like me though folks turn away I like the pigeons, I like what they say"
@Oh Injury! I definitely got "witch" with the line "Animals like me though folks turn away I like the pigeons, I like what they say"