Текст песни: Queen of Spindles + перевод

Spider catch what spider keep

Spider when you’re fast asleep

Spider spin and spider sew

Who knows where the spider goes…

This night I go to bed the Queen of Spindles

Tomorrow I shall wear another crown

This bitter silk I’m spinning, oh it burns me

But I keep the spindle turning round and round

And love will seal my lips to every murmur

For silence was the witch’s best advice

And love will heal my hands of every blister

For that too is a portion of the price

I am the Queen of Spindles

Spider catch what spider keep

Spider when you’re fast asleep

My lover has me 'prisoned here in darkness

My pyre is waiting ready just outside

I’ve spun and woven scarce enough to save them

My brothers, will you realise I tried?

Nor am I quite alone here in my weaving

Spider in her hiding place

A spider makes her web above my head

Nor shall I quite despair until they burn me

Spider in her weaving space

But I cannot break the spell when I am dead —

Cannot break the spell, cannot break the spell

I am the Queen of Spindles

Spider catch what spider keep

Spider when you’re fast asleep

Spider in her hiding-place

Spider in the weaving space…

Spider spin and spider sew

Who knows where the spider goes

Spider, are you frightened too?

Spider, am I dreaming you?

Oh, how can I have slept when such awaits me?

And how are these shirts finished all but one?

See, all my nettles spun to yarn and woven

And the spider’s web still only just begun?

Morning brings the terror and the daylight

Morning brings despair and fear

Mute, I sense my winged brothers near

Fling what I have woven to them skyward —

Come by, come my brothers near

Where once were seven swans, seven young men appear

And love has sealed my lips to every murmur

Love declares my lips be sealed

For silence was the witch’s best advice

And love has healed my hands of every blister

Love declares my blisters healed

For that too was a portion, a portion of the price

I am the Queen of Spindles

Here am I the spindle-queen

Nettles gold and nettles green

Spider catch what spider keep

Spider when you’re fast asleep

I am the Queen of Spindles

Here am I the spindle-maid

Nettles sting but that will fade

Spider spin and spider sew

Who knows where the spider goes?

I am the Queen of Spindles

Here am I the spindle-bride

Ask me where the spider hides

Seven years and seven shirts

One swan wing, one broken curse

I am the Queen of Spindles

Here am I the spindle-queen

Nettles white and nettles green

All my bitter silk is spun, all my bitter tale is sung

And look, the spider’s web is done!

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