The Woods Lyrics

We went the two of us into
The woods behind the little school
Two went in and one came home
We didn't go in there alone

Your eyes were lovely as you danced
With centipedes and little ants
We built a fort of lover's teeth
And some of mother's sheets

I was a boy and I was good
But there are witches in these woods

Ooh.. Ah.. Mm…

We went the two of us into
The woods behind the little school
The trees were dappled, light and green
Then deeper, darker by the stream

Your eyes were lovely as you danced
With centipedes among the plants
Overgrown where I believed
We would never leave

I was young and I was good
But there are witches in these woods

Ooh…

They followed us into the trees
Wearing crowns of twigs and leaves
You and I were in the mud
Paint ourselves with spider's blood

Your eyes are lovely, darkened dancer
(Aah!)
Pulling legs off salamanders
(Aah!)
A little creature you unspun
(Aah!)
To skin and bones and brains and blood
While witches, they surrounded us

We were young and we were good
But there are witches in these woods

[Baritone Sax solo]

Ooh… Ah…

The nights are lovely, dark and lush
So leave your worries here with us
All together, all alone
Skin and blood and brains and bone
Aah!

Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. x8  

Amory  
Are you ready for me?  
Is she gone?  
Amory  
In the moment I know  
It hurts so bad  
But I know you’re alone  
You’ve been going along  
Feeling like everything  
Feeling like everything’s wrong  

Open your mind  
Let me in  
Give me your mouth  
Give me your skin  
I am a ghost  
At the controls  
I have your body  
I have your soul  
You’re letting go  

Amory  
Will you tell her for me  
What we have done  
Amory  
I know you’re capable  
Of terrible things 
And we’ve been here before  
Don’t act so alarmed  
You know exactly  
What you’ve been angling for  

Open your mind  
Let me in  
Give me your mouth  
Give me your skin  
I am a ghost  
At the controls 
I have your body  
I have your soul  
You’re letting go  

Amory  
Don’t pretend to be scared  
Of what you are  

Open your mind  
Let me in  
Give me your mouth  
Give me your skin  
I am a ghost  
At the controls  
I have your body  
I have your soul  
You’re letting go 

Who are you, love, and where have you been?  Do you know my face?  
Sorry love but I can't let you in  
Love don't own this place  

And I can't fall asleep in your arms  
No I can't fall asleep in your arms  
So tell me a story and I'll put myself to sleep  

Mmm…  

Spider got me when I was your age  
A Casanova  
Funny people start sounding the same  
When they're older  

I can't fall asleep in your arms  
No I can't fall asleep in your arms  
So tell me a story and I'll put myself to sleep  

Take a seat love and bring me to Paris  
Show me where we land  
I’ll be Abel and chase you to Lima  
Holding my hat in hand  
It’s all a dream love, to sing you to sleep, love  In the purple land  
I’ll be here love if you are near love  
Or I’ll be your Lamb  
And I'll prepare a place for you  
I'll prepare a place for you 
I'll prepare a place for you  
I'll prepare a place for you 

Hey honey  
Are you giving up  
Hey honey  
You look a little tired now  
Wasn’t very long ago  
We were wolfing down America  
Living in the undergrowth  
And buzzing in the night  

On and on and round and round we circle  
Up and down we’re floating on the tide  

I won’t promise you if you follow me around  I won’t let you down  
I won’t let you down  
Been wandering, who’s to say if we’ll be found  No promises  
No promises  

Hey honey  
I know it’s been a while  
Hey honey  
I wouldn’t blame you if you turned around  

On and on and round and round we circle  
Up and down we’re floating on the tide  

I won’t promise you if you follow me around  I won’t let you down  
I won’t let you down  
Been wandering who’s to say if we’ll be found 
No promises  
No promises 

Pack your bags  
Leave your home  
Drive all night  
Do it for me  
Change your clothes  
Hold your calls  
Cut your ties  
Do it for me  
Wet your lips  
Dry your tears  
Drink your doubts  
Do it for me  
Waste your youth  
Count your years  
Lose yourself  
Do it for me  
×2  

I won’t promise you if you follow me around  I won’t let you down  
I won’t let you down  
Been wandering who’s to say if we’ll be found  No promises  
No promises  
×2

[Instrumental]

This hunger that I can’t describe  
This hunger but I don’t know why  
Another night, another try  
I’m starving like I’m gonna die  
I’m staring through an empty suit  
Like why’d I wear these fucking shoes  
I’m weaving through these endless nights  
I don’t know why, I don’t know why  
I don’t know why  

And eventually I’ll fall for  
Another disappointment  
When did it get like this  
When I was such a nice kid  

Keep it to yourself tonight  
And try to look alive  
You’re a star  
You’re a find  
You’re a pretty little lie  
So get your head on right  
Imagine that it’s like  
When you were younger  
The hunger 

So feed me all your valentines  
Your chocolates and cheesy lines  
Another whiny oenophile  
Well fill me in another time  
I guess it’s fine  

And eventually I’ll fall for  
Another disappointment  
When did it get like this  
When I was such a nice kid  

Keep it to yourself tonight  
And try to look alive  
You’re a star  
You’re a find  
You’re a pretty little lie  
So get your head on right  
Imagine that it’s like  
When you were younger  
The hunger  
The hunger  

Always the lonely  
Always the lonely ones  
Always the lonely ones go  
Always the lonely  
Always the lonely ones  
Always the lonely ones know  

Keep it to yourself tonight  
And try to look alive  
You’re a star  
You’re a find 
You’re a pretty little lie  
So get your head on right  
Imagine that it’s like  
When you were younger  
The hunger  
Always the lonely  
Always the lonely ones  
Always the lonely ones go 

Ha Ha Ha Ha etc…  
If I don't find my own true love  
I don't care  
Don't care at all  
I don’t bite on caramel lies  
I am not a patient girl  

And I can't fall asleep in your arms  
No I can't fall asleep in your arms  

Feeling awful free  
Is there something—  
Something wrong with me?  

If I can't fall asleep in your arms  
If I can't fall asleep in your arms  

Why are you so low, I wonder?  
Tell your feelings to your mother  
Darling don’t be dull and heavy  
I am not a fool, not empty  

Ha ha ha ha x8 

[Instrumental]

Ooh….

Oh darling I've been so miserable  
I can't describe  
Oh darling don't be difficult  
I can't abide  
Oh darling fighting's so miserable  
A lover's lie  
Oh darling don't be practical  
I can't abide  
x2  

When you're awful low  
And your heart is gone to sea  
Leave your lonely here 
With me  
When you're awful low  
Abide with me  

Oh darling I’ve been so miserable  
I can’t describe  
Oh darling don't be fanciful  
I can't abide  
Oh darling fighting’s so miserable  
A lover’s lie  
Oh darling don't be difficult  
I can't abide  
x2  

Aah!  

These little hands are parasites  
Get in there and hang on tight  
Take what they can take and leave you bleeding  This little mouth's no good for you  
These lips will suck you black and blue  
When it's done, the teeth and tongue for feeding 
Ooh honey  
Ooh honey  

Your little hands are paradise  
Give them here and hang on tight  
This body's been trying to find a reason  
Your little mouth a'talking fast  
Makes my heart astir at last  
Trying to find a face I can believe in  
Ooh honey  

Ooh honey  

I always knew  
Father was a man like you  
Mother never got the things she needed

Keep her cased in honeycomb  
That way she won't feel alone  
The queen should never have to overthink it  

Ah Ooh honey  
Ooh honey  

Join the moving pictures and be—  
Now we're growing up so fast  
Days of fooling round are past  
Guess we better find out we're needing 
These little hands are paradise  
Give them here and hang on tight  
Trying to find a face I can believe in  
Ooh honey  
Aah!  

Ooh…

Ah…

Love, are you and I in love?  
Two parts of a whole—  
What adds up to love?  

Two hearts that never met before  
Then melted into one  
What does that do for us?  
Bond us or destroy us?  

Love, what even is it, love?  
Two halves of a whole—  
And can it be undone?  
What if it comes for us?  
Are you and I in love? 
Ah!  

Ooh  
It’s a cruel equation when two souls intertwine  There’s a strange remainder, something left behind I could lie forever in your open arms  
Wrap our roots together ’til we grow as one  
So we don’t come apart 

Oh we are so—  
We are so, we are so, so, so—  
I feel so, I feel so, so, so, so, so, so— 

Love, are you and I in love?  
Love, are you and I in love?  
Love, are you and I in love?  
Love, are you and I in love?  

Ooh

These are just the bones  
Telling me what everyone knows  
We are not alone in love  
If I could take you home  
Let bodies tell the rest of the story  
Maybe we’d resolve ourselves  

Honey you should know there’s two of me at play  One will turn to gold and one will turn away 
And I know we’ve got decisions to make  
Hoping it’ll go my way 

These are just the bones  
Telling me what everyone knows  
We are not alone in love  
If I could take you home  
Let bodies tell the rest of the story  
Maybe we’d resolve ourselves   

Little blonde ghost, it’s a dangerous place  
Don’t you know a home is just another cage  I am letting go, and I am sedate  
But I am not amazed  

These are just the bones  
Telling me what everyone knows  
We are not alone in love  
If I could take you home  
Bodies tell the rest of the story  
Maybe we’d resolve ourselves

There is a place  
I believe  
Where we could live  
And never leave 

In secret air  
The hazy glow  
We smoke cigars  
We dance like wolves  
Overgrown  
In palisades  
That keep us close  
That keep us safe  

Oh no  
Don’t leave me at the end  
Oh no  
Don’t leave me at the end  
My friend 

Under the moon  
We stay awake  
And in the dark  
We move like snakes  
We eat dust  
And luna wings  
The leaves above  
Whisper things  
And we stay young  
Day by day  
The godless aims  
To which we stray  
Overgrown 
I believe  
How we would live  
How we would be 

Oh no  
Don’t leave me at the end  
Oh!  

Mm…  

Ha Ha Ha Ha x8  

When the seabirds come  
To close my eyes and leave my body behind  
When the time is come  
To lift this worried weight from my spine  
I want to bathe in amber by a quiet bay  
I want to feel the water on my naked legs  
The salt drying on my skin  

 Ship in a… x5  

When the seabirds come  
And they will know the names of everyone I loved  Lemons on a lemon tree slowly drying up  
It’ll be alright  

I would sing for their lives  
I would sing for their lives  
If I knew the words  

When the seabirds come  
Ships in an orange sky  
And birds of brilliant white fly low to talk to me  
Remind me of the child who I used to be  
Running on tiptoe  

I would sing for my life  
I would sing for my life  
If I knew the words 

Ooh…  

All the little pretty girls start out looking like each other  Trying to find peace of mind, now you think you need a lover  All the while with a smile, never worried about each other  In a minute, in a minute, end up being someone’s mother  Oh, no!  

All these little pretty boys with their toys blowing bubbles  Find a girl you can twirl, never minding any troubles  In a while, with a smile, it’ll all turn into rubble  
In a minute, in a minute, you give in without a struggle  Oh, no!  

Ooh… 
Ah!  

Try to remember sometimes  
It’s just skin and bone  
Make it harder on ourselves  
Than it needs to be  
But I can't remember the last time  
That changed anything  
It's always been life or death to me  
And that's how it needs to be  
It's overwhelming sometimes  
When you're all alone  
And you can't tell if you're floating or falling out of place  Like the astronaut who calls a little dot a home  
Like he can tell from outer space 

Try to remember sometimes this is how it all proceeds  (And all these girls look like each other)  
And as you go, you see it differently than you used to see  (It starts by being someone's lover)  
And all you can do is try to reconcile the things you want to feel  (No longer astronauts, philosophers, or movie stars)  With all the things you know you need  
(They all will end up being someone's mother, oh, no!)  

Do well to remember sometimes, it’s just skin and bone  (And all these boys they're blowing bubbles)  
Make it harder on ourselves than it needs to be  
(They want a girl to give them trouble)  
And I can't remember the last time it changed a thing at all  (And all their dreams of flying out to space will blow away)  It's always been life or death to me, that's how it needs to be  Try to remember sometimes we’re just skin and bones  Make it harder on ourselves 
But we’re not alone

I’m not worried 'bout the kids  
I’m not trying to make the lists  
I’m not chasing after sadness  
We can live and let it live  
We don’t need some kind of myth  
Turning seabirds into sirens  

So give it up  
Let it go  
No it’s not  
What you hoped  
But there’s freedom in it  
Live it up  
It’s a game  
This is what  
You became  
There’s freedom in it  

Freedom  
Yeah yeah!  
There’s freedom in it  
Freedom  
Yeah yeah!  
There’s freedom in it  

I’m not worried 'bout the kids  
I’m not trying to make the lists  
There’s no need to be exhausting  
We can live and let it live  
We don’t need some kind of myth  
Turning seabirds into sirens  

So give it up  
Let it go  
No it’s not 
What you hoped  
But there’s freedom in it  
Live it up  
It’s a game  
This is what  
You became  
There’s freedom in it  

Freedom  
Yeah yeah!  
There’s freedom in it  
Freedom  
Yeah yeah!  
There’s freedom in it 
x3  

The woods are lovely, dark and lush  
Your worries now belong to us  
Secrets only we will know  
So leave us lighter when you go 
We went the two of us into  
The woods behind the little school  
All together, all alone  
Each of us just skin and bone  

Ooh…  

I hear it coming  
It’s coming this way  
It’s digging me up  
The dead have been raised  
But life is for living  
So take me to the beating heart  
We’re following the moving sound  
Out into the dark

And it’s hard to quite describe it  
Like we're part of  
Part of something bigger  
Not another  
Lonely little heartbeat in the city  
Only we could hold it for a minute  

The night is a crawl  
With vampires and night owls  
Our bodies are a-buzzing  
We’re joining the prowl  

And it’s hard to quite describe it  
Like we're part of  
Part of something bigger  
Not another  
Lonely little heartbeat in the city  
Only we could hold it for a minute 

It’s for the living  
We don’t have to try  
‘Cause aren’t we alive

Deep in the dark  
Something is hidden  
Hovering just out of frame  
Something we’re missing     

And it’s hard to quite describe it  
Like we're part of  
Part of something bigger 
Not another  
Lonely little heartbeat in the city  
Only we could hold it for a minute 

It’s for the living  
We don’t have to try  
‘Cause aren’t we alive, alive  
It’s for the living  
We don’t have to try  
‘Cause aren’t we alive, alive   

Ooh…  

I can tell you how the story goes  
If you die, if you just get old  
All together or all alone, all alone, all alone  
Like your mother and your father too  
All grown up but they're just like you  
And you're going to do it all anew  
Better run for the hills, run for the hills, run  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run 

Another day older  
Everyone you knew  
All chasing bells and ahead of themselves  
And you know you can't move  
One step forward  
Step right back  
Run for the hills honey, run for the hills honey  Run for the hills, don't look back  
Everything you see is double  
Any way you go you lose  
When you're lost in the woods and  
Alone in the world too  
Another day older  
And another day we go, oh no  
Alone again with all these people   

I can tell you how the story goes  
If you die, if you just get old  
All together or all alone, all alone, all alone  
Like your mother and your father too  
All grown up but they're just like you  
And you're going to do it all anew  
Better run for the hills, run for the hills, run

Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run  
Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run 

Wanna live like an animal  

By the skin of your teeth  

Put your good face on, not fooling no one  

You're a jackrabbit underneath  
One step forward, step right back  
Run for the hills honey, run for the hills honey  Run for the hills, don't look back  
Don't look back, don't look back  
Run for the hills honey, run for the hills honey  Run for the hills, don't look back   

Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run  
Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run

Everything you see is double  
Any way you go you lose  
When you're lost in the woods and  
Alone in the world too  
One step forward, step right back  

I can tell you how the story goes  
If you die, if you just get old  
All together or all alone, all alone, all alone  
Like your mother and your father too  
All grown up but they're just like you 
And you're going to do it all anew  
Better run for the hills, run for the hills, run  

Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run  
Ya da da, ya da da, ya da da  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run  
Run, run, you better run  
Run, run, you better run  
Run for the hills, run for the hills, run