How Pink Floyd’s 1974 Tour Songs ‘Raving and Drooling’ and ‘You Gotta Be Crazy’ Became ‘Sheep’ and ‘Dogs’—and What the Original Lyrics Said

The 1974 British Winter Tour was the first time audiences heard what later became Animals. “Raving and Drooling” would turn into “Sheep,” and “You Gotta Be Crazy” into “Dogs.” But the early lyrics were more direct and less philosophical than the final versions.

“Raving and Drooling” originally had a narrator watching a paranoid man in a pub, with lines like “I’m raving and drooling / And I don’t know what to do.” Waters focused on a specific character’s mental breakdown. By the time it became “Sheep,” the lyrics shifted to a collective allegory about blind obedience and revolution, borrowing from Psalm 23 but flipping it into a sheep uprising. The famous “Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away” section replaced the original’s more scattered, desperate imagery.

“You Gotta Be Crazy” was even longer and more cynical in its early form. Lines like “You gotta be crazy, you gotta have a real need / You gotta sleep on your toes and when you’re on the street you gotta be able to pick up the meat” emphasized survival in a dog-eat-dog world. For Animals, Waters tightened the critique into a broader satire of corporate ladder-climbing and emotional numbness. The word “crazy” was dropped entirely, replaced by “dog” as the central metaphor. The early version’s verses were also more explicit about office politics and backstabbing, while the final “Dogs” added the famous “Who was born in a house full of pain” bridge and the stone/stone/stone mantra.