A murder mystery? the loss of innocence?
The final verse seem leave it up to the listener to determine if the narrator was the killer? One of the four missing children?
Out past the cemetery, down by the willow bend
Half a mile from the railroad track
Last seen together, these two lovers hand in hand
They took a walk in the woods and they never come back
They took a walk in the woods and they never come back
Metal from the radio, it rang out through the fields
Just when they thought they'd found the track
Through a patch of four leaf clover that vanished in thin air
They took a walk in the woods and they never come back
Thеy took a walk in the woods and they nevеr come back
Never before in history has this town been so up in arms
You never heard such misery as those bloodhounds 'cross the farms
Between God and the police they were protected from all harm
Until they walked in the woods and they never come back
They took a walk in the woods and they never come back
They never come back
They never come back
Sirens wailed emergency, no evidence was removed
You never heard such theories, but none of them could be proved
Four the missing children, no conscience could be soothed
They took a walk in the woods and they never come back
Well, that was fifteen years ago, I guess we've come a long, long way
I never heard the end of it, you know, I couldn't stay
When I'm not stuck for time or money, I still wonder 'bout that day
I took a walk in the woods and I never come back
I took a walk in the woods and I never come back
I never come back
I never come back
I took a walk in the woods and I never come back
Walk in the Woods was written by Peter Case.
Walk in the Woods was produced by T Bone Burnett.