Deep Woods

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"**Deep Woods**" is an October Noir song included on their first album *The Haunting and the Powerful*, released in 2017. This is the band's longest track, lasting approximately 15 minutes for the original version, nearly seven minutes longer than the album's second longest track, but just 14-and-a-half minutes for the remaster version released in 2022. The riffs, rhythm, and structure resemble Type O Negative, and like numerous Type O songs, "Deep Woods" is split into three cantos. The first and title canto has Type O-styled gothic riffs at medium rate. It's about Tom Noir driving through the Deep Woods Road in Bedford, NY at night with his friends to find the cemetery (Bedford is where Peter Steele was born and raised). The lyrics recount the experience along the way. The second canto has slow, doomy and gloomy riff and it's about praying for the rain to come down to relieve the sadness of losing a friend. The last canto has soft, low-tuned acoustic guitar, faint piano and gloomy hum and mentions about forcing God to rain, per the lines 'So let the rain come down. Come down. Come now.', repeated five times. 'Let the rain come down' is the most popular lyric quote by the fans in the media and conversation.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Deep Woods"]**

An old dusty road winds down canopy oaks

It beckons my heart and it claws deep in my soul

Songs from the Green Man playing on the stereo

Now kill the headlights and let the moon be our guide

Cool air forgiveness as the glass drops down

Devoid of the world, yeah, as time ceases count

The break in the trees reveals a cemetery

Ancestors lit by ghostly crucifix

These autumn nights, I never want them to end

We'll ride to the start and drive back down again

Yeah on Deep Woods road

[Chuckles]

Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright nests just around the bend

Warm light pours from the eyes betwixt it's decadent skin

Nocturnal symphony whispers dark harmonies

Sights of red and gold, the scent of burning leaves

Lions of serpentine, lamps of luminescent green

Protect cobble stone leading to sanctuary

The break in the trees reveals a cemetery

Ancestors lit by ghostly crucifix

These autumn nights, I never want them to end

We'll ride to the start and drive back down again

The break in the trees reveals a cemetery

Ancestors lit by ghostly crucifix

These autumn nights, I never want them to end

We'll ride to the start and drive back down again

**[Canto II. "Pray for the Rain"]**

It couldn't last forever

as sure as the seasons change

You will always hold dear, my friend

now that you're gone away

Reminisce of the memories

old photographs take shape

Winds carry the storms ahead

I pray for the rain, rain, rain, rain...

It couldn't last forever

as sure as the seasons change

You will always hold dear, my friend

now that you're gone away

Reminisce of the memories

old photographs take shape

Winds carry the storms ahead

I pray for the rain, rain, rain, rain...

**[Canto III. "Let the Rain Come Down"]**

So let the rain come down

Come down

Come now

So let the rain come down

Come down

Come now

So let the rain come down

Come down

Come now

So let the rain come down

Come down

Come now

So let the rain come down

Come down

Come now

## Personnel

* **Tom Noir** – vocals, guitar and acoustic guitar (on original version), bass, drums (on original version), keyboards, piano, writing, engineering, mixing, mastering, production
* Doug Lane – guitar and acoustic guitar (on remaster version)
* Tyler Fleming – drums (on remaster version)

2. "Volatile"
3. "Trinity"
4. "Alpha Omega"
5. "Exhume"
6. "Silicon"
7. "**Deep Woods**"
8. "Vertebra Seraphim"
9. "Feel Heart Love"
10. "Beautifool"

1. "Tombstones"
2. "Burn"
3. "Spellbound"
4. "Little Drummer Boy"
5. "Symmetry"
6. "Black Light"
7. "Lavender"
8. "The Veil"
9. "Her Dark Embrace"
10. "Cauterize"

1. "Fate"
2. "Windows"
3. "Reverence (Make You Love)"
4. "Effigy"
5. "Wine"
6. "Persephone"
7. "Serendipity"
8. "Wanderlust"
9. "Cradle the Monster"
10. "Wisteria"
11. "Sistinas"
12. "Proverbs"
13. "Goodbye Black Bird"
 ***Letters to Existence***

1. "Spring"
2. "Endless Lonely"
3. "A Halo Hung from Horns"
4. "Forever Haunt"
5. "Deja View"
6. "Summer to Autumn"
7. "Clench"
8. "Tourniquet"
9. "For Honor"
10. "Flash Paper Matches"
11. "She's Gone"
12. "Winter"

* "Pictures of Matchstick Men (RIPeter)"
* "Lips Like Sugar"
* "Wicked Game"
* "Race War"
* "Cry Little Sister"
* "Love You to Death"
* "Crimson and Clover"
* "Nights in White Satin"