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This Mortal Coil, “Song to the Siren”
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“Song to the Siren”
(Tim Buckley, with alterations by This Mortal Coil)
On the floating, shapeless oceans
I did all my best to smile
til your singing eyes and fingers
drew me loving into your eyes.
And you sang “Sail to me, sail to me;
Let me enfold you.
Here I am, here I am waiting to hold you.”
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you here when I was full sail?
Now my foolish boat is leaning, broken love lost on your rocks.
For you sang, “Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow.”
Oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow.
I’m as puzzled as a newborn child.
I’m as riddled as the tide.
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or shall I lie with death my bride?
Hear me sing: “Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you.”
Here I am. Here I am, waiting to hold you.”
From This Mortal Coil, It’ll End In Tears (1984)
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4 comments
How rare for a cover version to improve on an already perfect song. Tim Buckley’s performance on the Monkees’ TV show is also worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h89AKTkGyeM&feature=fvst
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Capitalism makes for strange bedfellows indeed. As J.P Sartre said, life is a bourgeois compromise.
I never noticed these ads before. What else am I missing?
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