Sheep Lyrics - Bonnie Prince Billy

Born in sheep's blood plain and simple 

Washed out of my mother's temple 

All around I heard them laughing 

As father sheep had stood there calving 

Black they were, with white eyes gleaming 

Right in heaven life was seeming 

Brittle wind blew snow upon me 

I got blanketed all white and frosty 

In my time I grew and killed them 

Or out of memory I willed them 

And willed in a greater histry 

Out of massacre and mystery 

Was no longer wealthy, woolly 

Nor anything I could grasp fully 

Someone rush to re-inject me 

God of god's, won't you protect me ? 

Fixed my face and marching onward 

Marching running ever forward 

Buildings were a bloody vessel 

Edging me below the trestle 

There in coal and whitened gravel 

I built a shield of wooden baffle 

Inside of which I raised a fire 

So I could tonight retire 

Everyone will tell you it's evil to be 

A free-thinking pecker like bonny old me 

But I'll flex my armies and blow out my gut 

And prove I'll be loved by any old slut 

Look here in my wallet, it's loaded and true 

And now I can leave here and go and find you