pontefract ([info]pontefract) wrote,
@ 2007-06-10 15:48:00
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Siren


Tim Buckley - "Song To The Siren"

Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
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 hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, o my heart shies from the sorrow

I am puzzled as the newborn child
I am troubled as the tide:
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Should 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


Currently utterly obsessed with this song after hearing John Smith perform it supporting John Martyn in Liverpool last week. No idea why.



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Song to the Siren
(Anonymous)
2007-08-15 09:01 am UTC (link)
The reason you'ree obsessed with this young Seeempson is because it's a bloody great song.


And because you're also ever so slightly mad and obsession comes easy to the likes of, well, us, really.

The Sober Scouser.

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