"Song to the Siren" is a song written by Tim Buckley and Larry Beckett,[2] first released by Buckley on his 1970 album Starsailor. It was also later released on Morning Glory: The Tim Buckley Anthology, the album featuring a performance of the song taken from the final episode of The Monkees.
Pat Boone was the first to release a recording of the song when it was featured on his 1969 album Departure, predating Buckley's album. The song has become perhaps Buckley's most famous due to a number of artists covering the song after his death in 1975, most notably This Mortal Coil in 1983.
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Buckley and Beckett regarded this song as their greatest collaboration, with Beckett later stating "It's a perfect match of melody and lyrics. There was some kind of uncanny connection between us."[3]
The song's reference to the sirens tempting sailors at sea stems from Greek mythology. Its lyrical style is an example of Larry Beckett's literary inspirations, and stands in direct contrast to Buckley's own more personal writing style.[6]
This Mortal Coil recorded a version of "Song to the Siren" that was released as a single in September 1983. It entered the UK Independent Singles Chart at No. 31 on 24 September,[11] and reached No. 3 on 5 November.[12] It also reached the main UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 66 on 22 October.[13] Eventually, the single appeared for 101 weeks on the UK Indie Charts, a run that ranked fourth in the 1980s after three classic long-selling records: "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus (131 weeks), "Blue Monday" by New Order (186 weeks) and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division (195 weeks).[14] "Song to the Siren" was included on the group's 1984 album It'll End in Tears which was released a year after the single.
This Mortal Coil was a loose collective of musicians under the leadership of producer Ivo Watts-Russell, most of whom had recorded for his 4AD label. Singer Elizabeth Fraser and guitarist Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, who were at the time signed to 4AD, performed on the This Mortal Coil version of "Song to the Siren". Fraser also recorded a duet with Tim's son, Jeff Buckley.[15][16]
Following the release of the single by This Mortal Coil, Buckley's work experienced a reappraisal.[17] This revival of interest in the artist would be one of the greatest factors in the increase of his posthumous sales, along with Jeff Buckley's own success.[17]
This Mortal Coil's version is featured prominently in David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway. Lynch had originally intended to use the cover in his 1986 film Blue Velvet, but the rights proved prohibitively expensive, so instead he wrote the song "Mysteries of Love" with composer Angelo Badalamenti.[18]
In 2012 Dawn French selected this song on Desert Island Discs as "the song that made me fall in love again".[21] In 2021, the song featured on an episode of Soul Music, a music documentary series on BBC Radio 4.[22]
Various trance cover versions exist. The track "Sunrise (Here I Am)" by Ratty covered the song in 2000, as well as Vengeance featuring Clare Pearce in 2001. Lost Witness' "Did I Dream (Song to the Siren)" featuring Tracey Carmen also covered the song.
This is the song I associate with my first and only love. When we met I didn't really believe in 'love' and dismissed it as a load of sentimental nonsense. Then when I met him, I know what to do with my feelings, I was foolish and he left me after a few months. Towards the end of our relationship, I heard the Mortal Coil interpretation of this song, with the vocals by Elizabeth Fraser, and it was like it was written for me. In the months to come, I would listen to it over and over, and it never lost significance.
Now, I suspect that nobody is interested in reading a line-by-line analysis of what this song means to me, but the beauty of the internet is that I can do it anyway, and those who don't want to read it don't have to :P
'Were you hare when I was fox?' or 'Were you here when I was flotsam' or 'full-sail' or whatever it is. Either way, I feel like it's questioning whether the other was noticing and watching for much longer than the narrator has realised.
its certainly a song we will never forget, my girlfreind doesnt want me anyone because I did something wrong, I cant blame her - it feels like we both have broken hearts.
I truly would like to put things right - the song is tragic, sad tender but very loving , like ruderless ships crashing against the rocks, sometimes the strom is too much - I so much want to sa to her, Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Waiting to hold you
Well, I do appreciate it and I enjoyed your analysis of this song. I associate it with death though, mainly because I watched a movie called "The Lovely Bones" about a 14 yr. old girl who was murdered. Even though it wasn't a true story, it very well can be any story for a child who is murdered.
The reason it stuck with me is because when I was a teen, I was involved in a search for a young girl who was kidnapped. Since it was the final day for the search, and the search had gone on for several days, they told us to look for anything that could be a grave, or any other signs of her body. We didn't find her that day and on the way home, I couldn't stop crying. I wanted so badly to find her alive and I was severely depressed. Believe it or not, she was found the very next day - and she was alive, and then I really cried - totally overwhelmed in happiness! She was one of the very few found alive, although she had been molested. She hadn't eaten in several days; She was covered in cuts, scratches and bug bites, and was living in a filthy grassy ditch with her kidnapper, who was caught with her by the Border Patrol. I'm sure she developed emotional problems from it, but still, she lived, and as long as you still have life, you always have a chance to live the best life you can.
Sadly to say, I also associate this song with death in that, I grew up closely involved in law enforcement (police explorers), and attended eight police funerals (two were double funerals in the same day), and one was suicide. I never went into law enforcement after so many funerals. I also have known too many people who committed suicide.
As for why I've seen so many deaths and suicides, I have no clue. (I also have seen two children hit by cars and die in front of me. The first was when I was seven: my classmate died in front of me.) I've asked God that question many times, but I guess that's just the way it is. In counseling, they actually called me a "$hit Magnet" (which I didn't appreciate). For a long time, I thought everyone experienced the kind of life that I have, but they said no. They also told me I should write a book, but I never have.
So, as you can probably see by now, this song has a LOT of meaning to me. There is another song that helped me through my severe depression called "Stand A Little Rain" by the NItty Gritty Dirt Band. I don't associate that with relationships. I associate it with depression. If you ever read this, listen to that song. It's an excellent song and as I said, it helped a great deal to pull me out of my depression.
Thank you again for taking the time to put your analysis into writing, I'm saving it in my documents, along with the lyrics to "Song of the Siren," so I can read it from time to time. You helped me a lot. :)
PS: I'm sorry this was so long, but reading your analysis got the wheels in my little brain turning, lol.
@LittleRedShoes You should definetly listen to Rose Betts version. I'd never heard the song before...but wow did it immediately catch my heart.
I felt something similar. I met someone who sparked something in me no one has ever been able to spark.
But ultimately my spark was bigger in my heart than in my head. I lost her. I lost my will to live for a time. I long for someone else to make me as willing to face the future hand in hand, with all the wonders of life we can share.
One day perhaps, I dont hold on to hope, but welcome its spontaneous surprise.
I didn't hear this song until I saw the preview of the recent remake of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" kinda fits the movie...kinda. I agree with Jimmy, I think it's about someone who leads you on and then when you're finally in love with them, they deny you and push you away, but you're still in love with them
With that out of the way, I'd just like to say that this tribute to the song is beautifully and magnificently arranged and composed. It is so beautiful and lucious and just absolutely haunting and I personally believe it is better than Tim Buckley's version.
This song is being sung TO a siren (hence the title) and it's basically about a man who has been tempted by a woman who is rejecting the man now that he is hers. The references to the boat being broken and whatnot may be about how this man has thrown everything in his life away for this woman. In the end of the song the man is just in love with the woman and being refused and is sort of like "what do I do now?"
Sheila Chandra also covered it I believe. I think(even though I like Tim a lot) that this is the definitive version. Kinda like Jimi Hendix's cover(yes cover) of Hey Joe. My question is why aren't there more comments on such an amazing song/performance? Oh because everyone's discussing Avril Lavigne's-Sk8er Boi.
I had to analyze the poem "Siren Song" by Margaret Atwood a few years ago, and basically it is about these mythical creatures who draw in sailors when they are out at sea. Then they get sucked in and... to make a long story short... get killed. So although the song is gorgeous, I think it's kind of creepy, in the sense that I believe all the lyrics in quotations are the " ladies' " way of drawing them in. 152ee80cbc
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