Cutty Wren

[Chorus] Cutty wren, cutty wren Oh, when will you sing again And see off the gunmen In the heart's deep den Little wren? [Chorus] Cutty wren, cutty wren Oh, when will you sing again And see off the gunmen In the heart's deep den Little wren? [Verse] Will you come to the wood Where the wren's nest is found Where angels on each leaf Are tallying up their quiet grief? But what will we do there In the wood of the birches? Will wе sharpen our old bones On midwinter's whеtstones? [Chorus] Cutty wren, cutty wren Oh, when will you sing again And see off the gunmen In the heart's deep den Little wren? [Verse] Oh, we'll seek out the wren there The king bird and the hedge queen She'll tell us the stories Of might-bes and has-beens Will she tell us the story Of the death of the Lady Her loss to the darkness And her rising again? [Chorus] Cutty wren, cutty wren Oh, when will you sing again And see off the gunmen In the heart's deep den Little wren? [Verse] If we build her a byre Of birch leaf and foxfire And we stitch it all together With needles of wren song Spiderweb as thread Is what we'll use for stitches They've torn up the matrix To sew up the glitches [Chorus 2] Only then, only then Will the wren then sing again Will the flame in the darkness Be burning and burning Only then, only then Will the wren then sing again Will the year's long tide Be turning and turning