Shepherd Lyrics

A previous lifetime, I know I was herding sheep

They roamed and I watched them lay down in a field of wheat

I kept an order and a sheep directory

For when I'd need some food to eat

I'd take a sheep for wool and meat in

A previous lifetime, I know I was herding sheep

But one day I lost them, I know I'm ashamed to say

I looked out my window, and they had all gone away

I questioned to the sky why they would disobey

And then I heard a furious word

On how I shirked my gentle herd

And so I had lost them, ashamed am I to this day

I learned they'd been scattered across the horizon land

Too far, were they displaced, for safety beneath my hand

So they were someone else's duty to command

He'd judge between the fat and lean

And who would need their trotters cleaned

So they had been scattered across the horizon land

I quavered in worry, without me they'd surely die

But they had been rescued, all under a loving eye

If i had known this, I'd have surely been surprised

To see the sheep i knew as weak

Receiving wheat instead of me

In a previous lifetime, a shepherd I played to die