Geoff Rickly, speaking on the inspiration behind the lyrics of No Devolucion in an interview with AV Club, elaborated: “I realized I was going to be doing a lot more subverting story formats. Like, ‘A Darker Forest’ has the cliché about taking two different paths, but then it turns it upside down an...
[Verse 1]
A darker forest paints
With blood in the sun sliding down its trees
And casts in relief the colors we have seen
And all the storms that we had been
They've paled and passed
In the presence of the world at hand
[Chorus]
Am I really there in the fractured light of the forest floor
With the broken branches?
Am I really there in the same light
In the same life, on the only road?
[Verse 2]
A darker forest waits
In which we relive all our past mistakes
And trace them back with our decisions
To the fork in the road
But what if every path you take
Starts to look the same
And leads equally astray?
We'll walk in circles and never find our way
[Chorus]
Am I really there in the fractured light of the forest floor
With the broken branches?
Am I really there in the same light
In the same life, on the only road?
[Outro]
Am I really there?
Am I really there?
All is gone
A Darker Forest was written by Geoff Rickly & Tom Keeley & Steve Pedulla & Tim Payne & Tucker Rule & Andrew Everding.
A Darker Forest was produced by Dave Fridmann.
Thursday released A Darker Forest on Tue Apr 12 2011.