Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name "sheep" applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep.
Sheep are most likely descended from the wild mouflon of Europe and Asia. One of the earliest animals to be domesticated for agricultural purposes, sheep are raised for fleece, meat (lamb, hogget or mutton) and milk. A sheep's wool is the most widely used animal fiber, and is usually harvested by shearing. Ovine meat is called lamb when from younger animals and mutton when from older ones. Sheep continue to be important for wool and meat today, and are also occasionally raised for pelts, as dairy animals, or as model organisms for science.
Sheep husbandry is practised throughout the majority of the inhabited world, and has been fundamental to many civilizations. In the modern era, Australia, New Zealand, the southern and central South American nations, and the British Isles are most closely associated with sheep production.[citation needed]
The Sheep is a character, created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll. It appeared in Dodgson's book, Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
The Sheep is first mentioned in the fifth chapter of Through the Looking-Glass, "Wool and Water". The White Queen is talking to Alice, when she suddenly starts "baa-ing" and then seems to 'wrap herself in wool'. Alice figures out she is in a shop, and that The White Queen has turned into a sheep. The Sheep sits in her chair knitting as Alice looks around the shop. She gives Alice a pair of her knitting needles, and asks her if she can row. As Alice begins to answer, she realizes that they are in a little boat, and that the needles have turned into oars. As they glide along the water, the Sheep repeatedly shouts out "Feather," and tells Alice that they will be catching crabs. Alice's attention is then put onto some scented rushes growing in the water. She tries picking them, but they are only 'dream rushes' and melt away. She then quickly catches a crab, which she actually didn't see, and they are all suddenly in the shop again. Alice buys an egg from the Sheep (that ends up turning into Humpty Dumpty) and the two part ways.
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air
You better watch out
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel
What a surprise
A look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is no bad dream
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives He releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
Bleating and babbling we fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead
You better stay home and do as you're told
I've got all of the symptoms
and I don't know wrong from right
I resist the itemized list
but it seems so hard tonight
I don't want to be a sheep
just because I'm told
I don't want to be a sheep
in complete control
you get into my headache
you regulate the pain
but I can't second guess you
you go directly to my brain
I can't believe they're on my side
I've been wrong too many times
I do anything you say
I don't know left from right
I think there's something in the water
because it doesn't taste quite right
I've got all of the symptoms
and I don't know wrong from right
I resist the itemized list
but it seems so hard tonight
I don't want to be a sheep
just because I'm told
I don't want to be a sheep
in complete control
you get into my headache
you regulate the pain
but I can't second guess you
you go directly to my brain
I can't believe they're on my side
I've been wrong too many times
I do anything you say
I don't know left from right
I think there's something in the water
Dressed in rags and drenched in sweat
Spinning something that the world will soon forget
Handkerchief and girlfriend jeans,
You're not privy to the splendid things I've seen
Kill that DJ, clear the floor
Have a seizure in the leisure of the board
Damn the mob mentality
If you're sick of it then sing it with me
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my song, it was never about you at all
The social climb our suck-up slave
Had a moment and you dragged it out for days
Here's a conflict that you crave,
I'm the phoenix in the death of the fleeting things
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my song, it was never about you at all
You're everything I wanted, you're everything I need at all
Everything I wanted, I've gotta let you go
Is it everything you wanted?
Everything you need at all?
Everything you wanted, I've gotta let you go
Now you seem to find your place amongst the sheep
(I've gotta let you go)
Now you seem to find your place away from me
(I've gotta let you go)
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my song, it was never about you at all
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
It's my life and I'm living without you
Sometimes I get so angry with the simple life they lead
The shepherds smile seems to confirm my fears
They've never questioned anything, they've never disagreed
Sometimes I think they must have wool in their ears
And when you see a can I see a crook
And when you see a crowd I see a flock
It's sheep we're up against
Sheep we're up against
When I was young they used to get me counting sheep
But the counting I did was all in vain
Now when I'm tired and I'm trying to get to sleep
I count humans jumping onto trains
And when you see a can I see a crook
And when you see a crowd I see a flock
It's sheep we're up against
Sheep we're up against
And when you see a can I see a crook
And when you see a crowd I see a flock
It's sheep we're up against
You are lost
Damaged beyond repair
The dead soul department
All my dears,
I've lost you and I know you can't survive
The world is big and full of fright
You haven't got half the mind
There's no hope for you
It's the end...
"Leave 'em alone and they'll come home and bring their tails behind them"
You are lost you are lost
You poor things have gone astray
I know that you are blind
Following a naughty road
Domino suicide
It's pathetic don't pretend...
"Leave 'em alone and they'll come home and bring their tails behind them"
I surrender
You are not mine to mend
One day you'll wash ashore
Lifeless on forgotten sand
All is wasted
Dig your grave
"Leave 'em alone and they'll come home and bring their tails behind them"
The dead soul department
We are young and in too deep. (In too deep.)
Burning our bridges while we sleep. (While we sleep.)
Cutting down fabrics at the seams. (At the seams.)
Strangling all our families sheep. (Families sheep)
I have given it up, given enough…given…
You know that we can’t...
We can’t come clean.
I saw the morning sun
eat it’s way through everyone.
We are young and in too deep. (In too deep.)
Burning our bridges while we sleep. (While we sleep.)
Cutting down fabrics at the seams. (At the seams.)
Strangling all our families sheep. (Families sheep)
Gracefully, we dance our way to nothing...
Gracefully, we’re bowing out too soon.
Patiently, I wait for word of something.
Knowing this ego will wash what is left of this stench that we hid with perfume.
Burn.
I can not breath.
I can not breath.
Worms.
They live in me. They live in me.
Worms.
They live in me. They live in me.
I am gouging out my eyes.
I have made my bed with flies.
I have burned out with my light
We are young and in too deep. (In too deep.)
Burning our bridges while we sleep. (While we sleep.)
Cutting down fabrics at the seams. (At the seams.)
Strangling all our families sheep. (Families sheep)
We are young and in too deep. (In too deep.)
Burning our bridges while we sleep. (While we sleep.)
Cutting down fabrics at the seams. (At the seams.)
Walking, thinking, feeling, responding
Uncovering and discovering new things about myself
And this mad world around me
Many philosophies, many tongues, many dialects and tones
Different styles but wild is wild
Calm is calm, but cool is mature
Most cool cats are kids at heart
Now there's business along with the art
A chef with words, a chef with herbs
A chef with vegetables, soy products and bean curd
Some look at my face and say, “You're quite absurd”
And I say, “Why, 'cos I'm not down with the herd?”
Of the world I haven't seen much
But with the mind I escape the ghetto's clutch
Loose cigarettes, ass bets on celo games
Abandoned cars and colorful names on walls
Suburb days were filled with sun rays
And crooked cops who looked at me sideways
Singin' that same old song
Where ya from, 'cos here you don't belong
Long strolls unravel my soul like a scroll
Telling many stories untold
Some look at my face and say, “You're quite absurd”
And I say, “Why, 'cos I'm not down with the herd?”
I an' I light up the sky, who be the sun
To stir up your adrenaline like African drums
Status quo, no, along with the grain, no
I got my own flow
Similar to none, dangerous like itchy fingers on guns
Yet graceful like swans but there's a built in bomb
Must defuse, must choose, right or wrong, win or lose
Born to die, that's why I ask, “Why is it so hard to get a piece of the pie?”
Some look at my face and say, “You're quite absurd”?
It's time to tell me what you saw
It's time to tell me what you saw
Where are all my little
Little lambs
Fast asleep
Where are all my little
Little lambs
Fast asleep
It's time to tell me what you saw
It's time to tell me what you saw
Did did did did da
Did did da ha
Did did did did da
Did did da ha
Oh, where can they be?
Did did did did da
Did did da ha
Oh, where can they be?
It's time to tell me what you saw
Tell me
It's time to tell me what you saw
Please, Mister
If you see them
They're missing
Won't you help them find
Their way
Find their way home
Before
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air
You better watch out
There may be dogs about
I've looked over Jordan and I have seen
Things are not what they seem
What do you get for pretending the danger's not real
Meek and obedient, you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is no bad dream
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green, he leadeth me the silent waters by
With bright knives, he releaseth my soul
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places
He converteth me to lamb cutlets
For lo, he hath great power and great hunger
When cometh the day we lowly ones
Through quiet reflection and great dedication
Master the art of karate
Lo, we shall rise up
And then we'll make the bugger's eyes water
Blasting and bubbling, I fell on his neck with a scream
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream
Have you heard the news
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you're told