I remember being at this show. I was a senior in high school and my girlfriend at the time had just begun attending NYU. I came to visit her and we went to the show. I was in the midst of pretty terrible drug addiction and our relationship was in disrepair. We left around the time Alex finished this song. I vividly remember that night and i feel like this version of the song really perfectly encapsulates that time in my life. I’ve been sober for over 5 years now and me and my ex are cool. But I’m glad this video exists because as hard as that time in my life was, there was also something beautiful about it.
This song seems to point towards a relationship strained by drug use. As with many of his song’s the title word appears once in the middle of the song at the center of a transition from flying/togetherness and weight and being alone w/out moving.
Don't let him out again From his hole in the ground Yeah you promised not to make Make a sound Why would he try to feed All your wants and needs When he wants nothing for himself Why would he try to bleed Out his heart in your hand When his blood is nothing more than sand When I go down to the hole in the ground I won't let it be my end When I go down to the hole in the ground Then I can be your friend When I go down to the hole in the ground I won't let it be my end When I go down to the hole in the ground Then I can be your friend Ten little Indians standing in a row And they won't move a muscle until you say so And I don't wanna be a part of that And I don't wanna be a part of anything that you're a part of You say it's a memory and I say its a dream But we won't talk about it if you're gonna make a scene And I don't wanna be around you now And I don't wanna be around the part of me that I remember Bloodiest the bloodiest the bloodiest was here You're bloody when you leave me and you're bloody when you're near But I don't think about it like I should And I don't think I love it like I loved it when I use to love you When I go down to the hole in the ground I won't let it be my end When I go down to the hole in the ground Then I can be your friend When I go down to the hole in the ground I won't let it be my end When I go down to the hole in the ground Then I can be your friend
There′s a hole in the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. Baby There's a hole in the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. Don′t you know that I can be. A wiggly worm in realityy. But you say that it can't be so. well then there's something that you don′t know-now-now-now-now-now-NOW-NOW-NOW-NOW-NOW BUT THERE′S A HOLE IN THE ground- In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. Baby There's a hole in the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. Some people say that it′s not alright. To be a worm when it's not to finee. They don′t understand a thing I say. And they won't understand anyway-no-no-no-no-no-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO BUT THERE′S A HOLE IN THE ground- In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. Baby There's a hole in the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. Now if you wanna worm. You gotta dig deep in the soil. There is wonder and there is cheer. There is darkness and there is fear-no-no-no-no-no-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO! BUT there's a hole in the ground. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. Baby There′s a hole in the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm. In the ground and I wanna be a worm.
