Sometimes a song comes on the radio (or the Pandora) at exactly the right moment and because it delivers exactly what you needed to hear for what was happening in life, you can’t help but wonder about the coincidence. These types of songs sometimes never get the audience and following they deserve. The Fleecing by Pedro the Lion is exactly that type of song. Everyone has lull points in their life where they feel lost and find themselves in situations where they don’t know how to cope. This song perfectly describes the numbness felt during those times in life. It doesn’t offer hope or resolution or any other emotions to encourage one to take action. Instead, it’s simply a song that tells us “I’ve been there. I understand.” Sometimes that’s all we need.

Title: The Fleecing
Album: Achilles Heel (amazon) (pandora)
Artist: Pedro The Lion

Deep green hills whose shoulders fade, into the gray tall wet grass.
Whose flesh makes fools of grazing sheep, whose fleecing makes a fool of me.

And who shall I blame for this sweet and heavy trouble?
For every stupid struggle?
I don’t know.
I could buy you a drink.
I could tell you all about it.
I could tell you why I doubt it, and why I still believe.

But I can’t say it like I sing it.
And I can’t sing it like I think it.
And I can’t think it like I feel it.
And I don’t feel a thing.
Oh no - I don’t feel a thing.

And who shall I blame for this sweet and heavy trouble?
For every stupid struggle?
I don’t know.
I could buy you a drink.
I could tell you all about it.
I could tell you why I doubt it, and why I still believe it.
And why I need it.
And what the pharasies don’t see.

And we’d have more drinks. We’d speak of so many things.
But I don’t know you, and you don’t know me.

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