Lullaby for Grendel Lyrics

Little warrior-baby with your tiny dreams of war

They'll call you a monster and call me a whore

Turn our very fingers into claws

Give us glistening fangs in gaping jaws

But sleep now, hush now, all that's still to come

Hush now, dream now, what's will won't be undone

Dream now, wait now, wait and bide your time

Wait now, watch now, as yours will, so will mine

So... shush, hush, and sleep

Listen to that racket! Beastly men in beastly halls

They pushed me from their fires and they chased us from their walls

But all a fire's good for is to singe

And walls won't stop the wishing for revenge

But sleep now, hush now, all that's still to come

Hush now, dream now, what's will won't be undone

Dream now, wait now, wait and bide your time

Wait now, watch now, as yours will, so will mine

So... shush, hush, and sleep

Learn to inward curb your frustration and rage

Learn to find these waters as stifling as a cage

I gave you the strength of ten men

Hunt and hurt them, drive them from their den

(Excerpt from Beowulf in Old English)

Grendles modor, ides aglæcwif

Yrmþe gemunde, se þe wæteregesan

Wunian scolde, cealde streamas,

Siþðan camp wearð to ecgbanan

Angan breþer, fæderenmæge.

He þa fag gewat, morþre gemearcod,

Mandream fleon, westen warode.

Þanon woc fela geosceaftgasta.

Wæs þæra Grendel sum

Grow, tiny grendling, your destiny's been fixed

Between man and monster, and land and sea betwixt

Don't deny what I have done for you!

Only kill, as I would want you to!

But sleep now, hush now, all that's still to come

Hush now, dream now, what's will won't be undone

Dream now, wait now, wait and bide your time

Wait now, watch now, as yours will, so will mine

So... shush, hush, and sleep