[Verse 1]
She came from the States with dust on her boots
Through the green grove and the old moss roots
Her red scarf dancing on the hedge-row breeze
She laughed at the stones and the leaning trees
A silver ring lay in a circle of white
Like a cup of moon in the afternoon light
She touched the edge, said, “What’s this for?”
Then stepped right in and heard nothing more
[Pre-Chorus]
The blackbirds went still in the briar
The air grew sweet like smoke and fire
One slow turn, then her knees went weak
And the grove held close, and the grass grew deep
[Chorus]
Faerie ring, faerie ring
She crossed the seam
Faerie ring, faerie ring
And lost her dream
Faerie ring, faerie ring
The night came near
She went down soft
And the ground went clear
[Verse 2]
She woke at dusk with a thorn in her palm
A taste like honey and a stranger’s calm
The sky was blue, but the world had changed
Her own name felt far and strangely strange
Then she saw them there by the hawthorn bend
Small bright eyes with a laughing grin
One pale hand brushed her cheek so light
And the whole grove shivered into night
[Pre-Chorus]
They spun her mind like a ribbon thread
Gave her back the things she’d left unsaid
A song in her bones, a burn in her tongue
And a door in her heart that had never been hung
[Chorus]
Faerie ring, faerie ring
She crossed the seam
Faerie ring, faerie ring
And lost her dream
Faerie ring, faerie ring
The night came near
She went down soft
And the ground went clear
[Bridge]
When she came out, the world looked small
Her shoes were wet from a silver fall
She’d been changed by the hush, by the hidden way
With their gold in her eyes and the dusk in her name
Now she walks that grove when the shadows lean
Half in this world and half in between
If you hear her laugh by the elder tree
You’ve come too close to the faerie ring
[Final Chorus]
Faerie ring, faerie ring
She crossed the seam
Faerie ring, faerie ring
And lost her dream
Faerie ring, faerie ring
Now she knows the air
She came back different
But she was always there