The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
My head was warm my skin was soaked
I called your name 'til the fever broke
When I awoke the moon still hung
The night so black that the darkness hums
I raised myself my legs were weak
I prayed my mind be good to me
An awful noise filled the air
I heard a scream in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
A woman's voice i quickly ran
Into the trees with empty hands a fox it was
He shook afraid
I spoke no words, no sound he made
His bone exposed his hind was lame
I raised a stone to end his pain
What caused the wound? How large the teeth?
I saw new eyes were watching me
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
The creature lunged i turned and ran
To save a life I didn't have
Dear, in the chase there as I flew
Forgot all prayers of joining you
I clutched my life and wished it kept
My dearest love, I'm not done yet
How many years i know I'll bear
I found something in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
I called your name 'til the fever broke
When I awoke the moon still hung
The night so black that the darkness hums
I raised myself my legs were weak
I prayed my mind be good to me
An awful noise filled the air
I heard a scream in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
A woman's voice i quickly ran
Into the trees with empty hands a fox it was
He shook afraid
I spoke no words, no sound he made
His bone exposed his hind was lame
I raised a stone to end his pain
What caused the wound? How large the teeth?
I saw new eyes were watching me
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
The creature lunged i turned and ran
To save a life I didn't have
Dear, in the chase there as I flew
Forgot all prayers of joining you
I clutched my life and wished it kept
My dearest love, I'm not done yet
How many years i know I'll bear
I found something in the woods somewhere
Ooh, oo ooh, oo ooh
Lyrics submitted by tallsan, edited by teaspill, Uranium, swaghetti_prim
In the Woods Somewhere Lyrics as written by Andrew Hozier Byrne
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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@rainbow777 It could be about something as simple as infidelity. Particularly with moons being changeable and running towards a woman's voice (not the one he prays to). He could be clutching his life (freedom from committment, independence) as he runs scared in the woods and gets lost.
The fleeing something he's too afraid to look at, that is capable of rendering a faerie-tale fox into genuine lameness nags at me though.
Escapism and the damage it causes is such a persistent trope in Hozier's work. Along with a handful of other things. So that being tied to his inability to get "out of the woods" seems right to me, but we can use people/fantasy for that as much as anything else.
I read Pinocchio for the first time after I wrote this interp, and at one point in it (immediately after a debate concerning whether Pinocchio was alive or dead, entertainingly) he's sick on a bed, unwilling to take medication from his female benefactor, because he's more afraid of the cure than his own mortal illness. I feel like there's something of that in here, too.
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