Song To The Siren lyrics

Song information

Artist: Tim Buckley
Album: Starsailor

Lyrics

Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving into 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 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?
Here me sing: "swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you."

Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you."