Your father's gone a-hunting
He's deep in the forest so wild
And he cannot take his wife with him
He cannot take his child
Your father's gone a-hunting
In the quicksand and the clay
And a woman cannot follow him
Although she knows the way
Your father's gone a-hunting
Through the silver and the glass
Where only greed can enter
But spirit, spirit cannot pass
Your father's gone a-hunting
Lewis Carroll’s continutation of “ Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ” was called “ Through the Looking-Glass ” since Alice in this book has to climb through a mirror to find a world beyond ours. Cohen uses the motif but makes it darker by mentioning that only greed can pass through the mirror.
Hunters Lullaby