[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