I believe this song is about being close to someone who is ill or lost and can't find their way (lost in the woods) and you are doing all you can to rescue them redeem their soul and finding along the way, you also need to redeem yours as well. One of my favorite and also the most telling lyric stanza is this one:
Baby, Fear has a mind of its own
Undress, it'll seep in your bones
And I see how it waited for you
And I see how it baited the hook
Now you're gone and you ain't coming back
Here the person is begging the one in their life to come clean and bare their soul to them so they can help them (undress, it'll seep in your bones) - or come clean or you'll soul will rot forever - (see how it waited for you and see how it baited the hook) - the darkness/sickness in their lives has finally won over and enveloped them fully, it was too late, now this person is gone forever, forever lost in the woods.
I believe this song is about being close to someone who is ill or lost and can't find their way (lost in the woods) and you are doing all you can to rescue them redeem their soul and finding along the way, you also need to redeem yours as well. One of my favorite and also the most telling lyric stanza is this one:
Baby, Fear has a mind of its own Undress, it'll seep in your bones And I see how it waited for you And I see how it baited the hook Now you're gone and you ain't coming back
Here the person is begging the one in their life to come clean and bare their soul to them so they can help them (undress, it'll seep in your bones) - or come clean or you'll soul will rot forever - (see how it waited for you and see how it baited the hook) - the darkness/sickness in their lives has finally won over and enveloped them fully, it was too late, now this person is gone forever, forever lost in the woods.