To me, this song is 'illustrating' the beginning of rainfall("hazy veils of cloud loom low"..."Rain starts her shimmery descent"_ over an abandoned, old farm, which has had its fair share of troubles("Underground bodies stir with no sound"..."Ghosthorse and stillborns turn in their cradles") like an old man--"old leather skin of the farm".
To me, this song is 'illustrating' the beginning of rainfall("hazy veils of cloud loom low"..."Rain starts her shimmery descent"_ over an abandoned, old farm, which has had its fair share of troubles("Underground bodies stir with no sound"..."Ghosthorse and stillborns turn in their cradles") like an old man--"old leather skin of the farm".