1. female-fronted rock/metal band
2. a Me… Read Full Bio ↴Into The Woods may refer to
1. female-fronted rock/metal band
2. a Melbourne folk band
3. an international collaboration of snowsport instructor musicians
It may also be an incorrect artist tag for a musical by Stephen Sondheim.
1. Formed in 2006 by Mike Watchorn and Alex 'Gooders' Goodwin from the ashes of previous projects. Over the course of the first year ITW gathered members for the remaining positions in the band and got down to writing, rehearsing and promotion ahead of its release.
By the summer of 2007 ITW were finally ready for the stage, and with a well received debut show and a few magazine live reviews under the belt the band had already started to make a mark in the unsigned UK circuit.
Throughout their first year of shows and promotion, various members were in and out of the recording studio on a regular basis to piece together all the material for the self titled debut mini-album. With all the usual rock band curses, the album went through complications (holding it back from its originally planned synchronisation with the first string of shows) and became a physical form in the fall of 2008, in time for the group’s successful first full UK tour.
2009 saw the band embarking on further promotion and many larger shows including a double performance at the UK's Bloodstock Open Air Festival in Derby.
2. Into the Woods are a Melbourne folk band from another time… Likened to Wilco, Midlake and Okkervil River, the band’s folk sound results from slight surprises on traditional formulas. Musically, four-part harmonies fill out classic chord progressions, country moments mutate into big band anthems, and all seven members wander the stage like minstrels, switching instruments as they go. Lyrically, the songs consider morality, mortality, loss and redemption; all of this tempered by the character-driven conventions of true folk music.
Formed in 2006, Into the Woods have played with some of Melbourne’s finest including Little Red, Institut Polaire and Grizzly Jim Lawrie. The band are currently putting some finishing gloss on their debut EP ‘The Willow Tree’.
3. The band first assembled in late 2010 when members found themselves bound together by a cold Canadian winter. Forced to reside in a former WW2 Prisoner of War camp and scientific research station; nights were spent chronicling the fate of the previous inhabitants and the current flock of victims. In the first winter some of the popular songs heard included, Nazi Zombies, FPC (French Pennington Criminal), AB-original vs. Mu-Ga-B and Dirty Slut. The aggressive nature of the songs was often attributed to underlying tensions within the band that remain to this day. The band went on hiatus during the middle part of 2011 because of logistical issues regarding practice sessions, only to reform later at the beginning of the following winter. On reliving the old material, serious consideration was given to a reunion tour, which remains unrealised. Some new songs were written regarding the new living environment and characters. There may be a gathering of members in mid 2012.....
Lament
Into the Woods Lyrics
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This is the world I meant
Couldn't you listen?
Couldn't you stay content?
Safe behind walls as I could not?
Now you know what's out there in the world
No one can prepare you for the world, even I
How could I have shielded you from her
Or them?
No matter what you say
Children won't listen
No matter what you know
Children refuse to learn
Guide them along the way
Still they won't listen
Children can only grow
From something you love
To something you lose
The lyrics of "Lament" from the musical Into the Woods are spoken by the Witch to Rapunzel after the latter has fled from her tower, venturing out into the dangerous world. The Witch begins by expressing her frustration with Rapunzel, now that she has seen the world beyond the tower. She had warned Rapunzel about the dangers of the world beyond, but Rapunzel refused to heed her warnings, now the Witch mourns the loss of her precious Rapunzel to the corruptive tendencies of the real world.
The second half of the song is the Witch's realization that no matter how much she wants to protect and shield Rapunzel or any other child, they're bound to make their own mistakes. Whether or not the witch should have sheltered Rapunzel or whether she had made the right decisions, there's no absolute answer. This dilemma of guarding or not is something that has preoccupied the Witch throughout the musical. She wants to protect Rapunzel and her other charges, but in the end, she knows that they must go out and venture on their own.
Line by Line Meaning
This is the world I meant
This is the world I had always wanted you to see and experience.
Couldn't you listen?
Why didn't you pay heed to my warnings and advice?
Couldn't you stay content?
Why did you have to seek beyond what you had and be dissatisfied with what you had?
Safe behind walls as I could not?
Why couldn't you take refuge behind the cocoon of safety that I had created for you out of my own struggles?
Now you know what's out there in the world
I hope you understand the magnitude of the vast unknown liminal spaces that surround and permeate every aspect of our daily existence?
No one can prepare you for the world, even I
Even I failed to prepare you for this world because I underestimated its complexities and challenges.
How could I, who loved you as you were?
How could I have changed what I loved about you?
How could I have shielded you from her or them?
How could I have protected you from the predators that lurk in these unknown territories beyond our safety zone?
No matter what you say, children won't listen
No matter how hard you try to impart your wisdom and insight, children and youth fail to pick up and truly listen to these valuable lessons.
No matter what you know, children refuse to learn
No matter how much you know and strive to teach, the children will refuse to learn from the voices of experiences, and they have to learn from their own experiences.
Guide them along the way, still they won't listen
No matter how much guidance and instruction you impart upon them, they still will shy away from listening and forge their own paths.
Children can only grow from something you love to something you lose
As children, they will grow and mature over time, out of the realm of things that you love, eventually becoming lost to the vastness of the world's inevitable, unknown future.
Contributed by Grace R. Suggest a correction in the comments below.