First off, I would suggest that the line is, "the night so black, that the darkness hung."
Anyway, I sometimes think that we read too much into lyrics, poems, etc. I was part of a creative writing class that would publish the students' works without names and then we would talk about them. Afterwards, the writer could choose to identify themselves if they wished. We found that most of the time, the people would read way more into the works than the writers intended. This is a feature of true art, but can also sometimes be finding hidden meanings for their own sakes.
Why the fox screaming? Their screams can sound like women - plain and simple. No other reason. I tend to think this song is about the writer wishing for death (joining you) to either be with his dead love in the afterlife, or simply be dead to end his own pain. When he heard the scream, he reacted from a normal human place, rather than the fatalistic, self-absorbed place he was in before. He began to care about something/someone else (the fox), and when the creature appeared, he began to care about himself again.
The juxtaposition of the 'something' that he found in the woods being both some unnamed beast and also his will to live is awesome.
First off, I would suggest that the line is, "the night so black, that the darkness hung."
Anyway, I sometimes think that we read too much into lyrics, poems, etc. I was part of a creative writing class that would publish the students' works without names and then we would talk about them. Afterwards, the writer could choose to identify themselves if they wished. We found that most of the time, the people would read way more into the works than the writers intended. This is a feature of true art, but can also sometimes be finding hidden meanings for their own sakes.
Why the fox screaming? Their screams can sound like women - plain and simple. No other reason. I tend to think this song is about the writer wishing for death (joining you) to either be with his dead love in the afterlife, or simply be dead to end his own pain. When he heard the scream, he reacted from a normal human place, rather than the fatalistic, self-absorbed place he was in before. He began to care about something/someone else (the fox), and when the creature appeared, he began to care about himself again.
The juxtaposition of the 'something' that he found in the woods being both some unnamed beast and also his will to live is awesome.