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I Lost Something in the Hills Lyrics
Every time I shed tears
In the last past years
When I pass through the hills
Oh what images return
Oh I yearn
For the roots of the woods
That origin of all my strong and strange moods
I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
I grew up in declivities
Others grow up in cities
Where first love and soul takes rise
There were times in my life
When I felt mad and deprived
And only the slopes gave me hope
When I pass through the leg-high grass I shall die
Under the jasmin I shall die
And the elder tree
I need not try to prepare for a new coming day
Where is it that fills the deepness I feel
You will say I'm not Robin the Hood
But how could I hide from top to foot
That I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
Oh I lost something in the hills
Now I lean on my window sill
And I cry, though it's silly
And I'm dreaming of off and away
Oh I know further west these hills exist
Marked by apple trees marked by a straight brook
That leads me wherever I want it to
Well I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
Oh I lost something in the hills
In the last past years
When I pass through the hills
Oh what images return
Oh I yearn
For the roots of the woods
That origin of all my strong and strange moods
I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
Others grow up in cities
Where first love and soul takes rise
There were times in my life
When I felt mad and deprived
And only the slopes gave me hope
When I pass through the leg-high grass I shall die
Under the jasmin I shall die
And the elder tree
I need not try to prepare for a new coming day
Where is it that fills the deepness I feel
You will say I'm not Robin the Hood
But how could I hide from top to foot
That I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
Oh I lost something in the hills
And I cry, though it's silly
And I'm dreaming of off and away
Oh I know further west these hills exist
Marked by apple trees marked by a straight brook
That leads me wherever I want it to
Well I lost something in the hills
I lost something in the hills
Oh I lost something in the hills
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I think this songs about losing your touch with nature, with the planet, adn feeling so empty cause of it
i think this is one of the most beautiful songs ever
The sound and her voice is like deep melancholy, so beautiful. Though some commented about the song being about loosing touch with nature, I think the song is more about a state of mind. I think the song is about loosing hope, maybe also in relation to depression, and in that also loosing touch with yourself, here pictured as nature, hills and grass..
The other interpretations mention nature, but to me, it sounds like the author using a nostalgic image of the site of her upbringing while talking about her mental state. Both in the recent past ("in the last past years") and in her childhood (where she felt "mad" and "deprived"), to which she attributes her current state (the origin of all [her] strong and strange moods)
"I grew up in declivities...\nI need not try to prepare for a new coming day (Heaven?)\n"the roots of the woods....that origin of all my strong and strange moods"\n"Where is it that fills the deepness I feel?" (in Nature it seems)\n\nWhen she says: "I lost something in the hills"\nI think she means "an ability to \'make do\' with a lesser sense of existence" apart from her early transcendent experience with Nature