Lullaby for Grendel

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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

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