Songwriter: Rudyard Kipling Chris Lowe Neil Tennant
Producer: Andrew Dawson Pet Shop Boys
[Verse 1]
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago
Weather and rain have undone it again
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees
It is underneath the coppice and heath
And the thin anemones
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods
And the badgers roll at ease
There was once a road through the woods
[Verse 2]
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late
When the night-air cools
On the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate
(They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few)
You will hear the beat of a horse's feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods
But there is no road through the woods
[Outro]
They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few
They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few
Because they see so few
They fear not men in the woods
They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago
Weather and rain have undone it again
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees
It is underneath the coppice and heath
And the thin anemones
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods
And the badgers roll at ease
There was once a road through the woods
[Verse 2]
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late
When the night-air cools
On the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate
(They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few)
You will hear the beat of a horse's feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods
But there is no road through the woods
[Outro]
They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few
They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few
Because they see so few
They fear not men in the woods
They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few
more tracks from the album
Elysium: Further Listening 2011 – 2012
- Memory Of The Future (New Single Mix)
- Listening
- Give It a Go
- Winner
- The Way Through the Woods (Long Version)
- Ego Music
- She Pops (Demo)
- Vocal (Demo)
- Leaving (Side By Side Remix)
- Leaving (Freedom Remix)
- In Slow Motion (Demo)
- Requiem in Denim and Leopardskin
- Hell
- Leaving
- A Face Like That
- Your Early Stuff
- Hold On
- Everything Means Something
- I Started a Joke
- In His Imagination
- Inside
- Invisible
- Breathing Space
- Memory of the Future
- Leaving (Believe in PSB Mix)
From the album
Pet Shop Boys popular songs
- West End Girls
- It’s a Sin
- Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
- Go West
- Always On My Mind
- Being Boring
- Suburbia
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?
- Domino Dancing
- The Pop Kids
- Left to My Own Devices
- Rent
- New York City Boy
- Love etc.
- Love is a Bourgeois Construct
- Burning the heather
- Dreamland
- Closer to Heaven 3
- Footsteps
- Closer To Heaven / Left To My Own Devices
- Je T’aime Moi Non Plus
- Yesterday, When I Was Mad (Coconut 1 12" Mix) [Disco 2 Version]
- In His Imagination
- Sail Away