Uploaded February 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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'Song To The Siren'
(Tim Buckley/Larry Beckett)


Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
till 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, my heart shy's from the sorrow

I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled at 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
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Taken from Tim Buckley's guest appearance on The Monkees Television show, aired March of 1968. However, this song was later to appear in it's more free form, abstract version on the album 'Starsailor' in 1970.

For more history on this song, please visit the following links.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_to_the_Siren_%28Tim_Buckley_song%29

groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/songtothesiren/info

timbuckley.com

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