{"id":22349,"date":"2015-03-24T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22349"},"modified":"2015-03-24T15:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:17:48","slug":"last-man-standing-surprise-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-surprise-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Surprise Ending!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qzhgzhBnPv4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Walk in the Woods by Peter Case popped up on a YouTube feed today and I was once again struck by how great the lyrics are (see below).  They tell the story of a young couple who disappears from a small town after going for a walk in the woods.  None of the townsfolk can find them or imagine what horrible fate befell them.  In the end, even the narrator is unable to tell us what happened to them because [<strong>SPOILER ALERT!<\/strong>] he takes a walk in the woods and he never comes back.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is to name a song where the lyrics contain a surprise twist at the end.  Please include a brief description of what the twist was.<br \/>\nAnd, as always, please limit your answers to one per post.<\/p>\n<p>Out past the cemetery, Down by the willow bend,<br \/>\nHalf a mile from the railroad track<br \/>\nLast seen together, these two lovers hand in hand<br \/>\nThey took a walk in the woods and they never come back<\/p>\n<p>News from the radio it rang out through the fields,<br \/>\njust when they thought they found the track<br \/>\nthrough a patch of four leaf clovers, They vanished in thin air<br \/>\nThey took a walk in the woods and they never come back<\/p>\n<p>Never before in history has this town been so up in arms<br \/>\nYou never head such misery as those blood hounds cross the farms<br \/>\nBetween God &amp; the police, they were protected from all harm<br \/>\nThey took a walk in the woods and they never come back<\/p>\n<p>Sounds where emergency, no evidence was removed<br \/>\nYou never heard such theories, but none of them could be proved<br \/>\nFor the missing children, no conscience could be soothed<br \/>\nThey took a walk in the woods and they never come back<\/p>\n<p>Well that was fifteen years ago, I guess I come a long long way<br \/>\nI never heard the end of it, you know I couldn\u2019t stay  . . .<br \/>\nWhen I\u2019m not stuck for time or money, I still wonder about that day<br \/>\nI took a walk in the woods and I never come back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk in the Woods by Peter Case popped up on a YouTube feed today and I was once again struck by how great the lyrics are (see below). They tell the story of a young couple who disappears from a small town after going for a walk in the woods. None of the townsfolk can <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-surprise-ending\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}