An amazing song both lyrically and musically. The lyrics seem ambiguous as in a very melancholy type poem. No idea really. Musically it's quite unique since the main hook isn't played until halfway through the song.
@hardlikker12 Well, the singer is a sheep farmer, sheltering from the rain under the eaves of some little outbuilding with his dog (who thinks his master is a wizard, his shepherd's crook a magic stick). It's a hard life, maybe a bad choice ("What made you think there'd be a livin' in sheep?" he asks himself twice), but he's not giving up. He can work as hard as any two men, and drink as much as three. That's not really sheep-dip in his flask - probably whiskey.
@hardlikker12 Well, the singer is a sheep farmer, sheltering from the rain under the eaves of some little outbuilding with his dog (who thinks his master is a wizard, his shepherd's crook a magic stick). It's a hard life, maybe a bad choice ("What made you think there'd be a livin' in sheep?" he asks himself twice), but he's not giving up. He can work as hard as any two men, and drink as much as three. That's not really sheep-dip in his flask - probably whiskey.
@hardlikker12 Oh, and the shepherd toasts "the clearing skies" and the two crows ("carrion spies"), and proposes that they look out for each other. If they can scavenge a living, so can he. Being visited by a pair of crows or ravens carries a heavy weight symbolically, usually indicating change, transformation (as do the clearing skies; Google that and make what you will of it!
@hardlikker12 Oh, and the shepherd toasts "the clearing skies" and the two crows ("carrion spies"), and proposes that they look out for each other. If they can scavenge a living, so can he. Being visited by a pair of crows or ravens carries a heavy weight symbolically, usually indicating change, transformation (as do the clearing skies; Google that and make what you will of it!
An amazing song both lyrically and musically. The lyrics seem ambiguous as in a very melancholy type poem. No idea really. Musically it's quite unique since the main hook isn't played until halfway through the song.
@hardlikker12 Well, the singer is a sheep farmer, sheltering from the rain under the eaves of some little outbuilding with his dog (who thinks his master is a wizard, his shepherd's crook a magic stick). It's a hard life, maybe a bad choice ("What made you think there'd be a livin' in sheep?" he asks himself twice), but he's not giving up. He can work as hard as any two men, and drink as much as three. That's not really sheep-dip in his flask - probably whiskey.
@hardlikker12 Well, the singer is a sheep farmer, sheltering from the rain under the eaves of some little outbuilding with his dog (who thinks his master is a wizard, his shepherd's crook a magic stick). It's a hard life, maybe a bad choice ("What made you think there'd be a livin' in sheep?" he asks himself twice), but he's not giving up. He can work as hard as any two men, and drink as much as three. That's not really sheep-dip in his flask - probably whiskey.
@hardlikker12 Oh, and the shepherd toasts "the clearing skies" and the two crows ("carrion spies"), and proposes that they look out for each other. If they can scavenge a living, so can he. Being visited by a pair of crows or ravens carries a heavy weight symbolically, usually indicating change, transformation (as do the clearing skies; Google that and make what you will of it!
@hardlikker12 Oh, and the shepherd toasts "the clearing skies" and the two crows ("carrion spies"), and proposes that they look out for each other. If they can scavenge a living, so can he. Being visited by a pair of crows or ravens carries a heavy weight symbolically, usually indicating change, transformation (as do the clearing skies; Google that and make what you will of it!