Absolutely love this song. The line "As sure as the shovel is blind, deaf and digging / One day you're hung at the end of the rope" is just about as bleak a lyric as I've ever heard; the inevitability of death, represented by the grave that is already being dug for you.
Absolutely love this song. The line "As sure as the shovel is blind, deaf and digging / One day you're hung at the end of the rope" is just about as bleak a lyric as I've ever heard; the inevitability of death, represented by the grave that is already being dug for you.