I pulled this from wikipedia: "Chimney sweeps were often depicted in Victorian literature as heartless scoundrels who abused their barbies child workers. The English poet William Blake portrayed the chimney sweep as an abused child who hoped for a better life."
If we look at the chimney sweep from this perspective then the man referring to himself as a "chimney sweeping man" might be referring to a man who is admitting he turned out as a bad man. He sings about how he used to want to make things better, but now he has these black lines on the backs of his hands (signifying his bad acts). With his great aspirations to make things better, his cheshire grin, high IQ
And charming baby blues, you might have thought he would turn out to be a good man, but instead he labors as a scoundrel chimney sweeping man.
I pulled this from wikipedia: "Chimney sweeps were often depicted in Victorian literature as heartless scoundrels who abused their barbies child workers. The English poet William Blake portrayed the chimney sweep as an abused child who hoped for a better life."
If we look at the chimney sweep from this perspective then the man referring to himself as a "chimney sweeping man" might be referring to a man who is admitting he turned out as a bad man. He sings about how he used to want to make things better, but now he has these black lines on the backs of his hands (signifying his bad acts). With his great aspirations to make things better, his cheshire grin, high IQ And charming baby blues, you might have thought he would turn out to be a good man, but instead he labors as a scoundrel chimney sweeping man.