Song to the Siren

    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 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"

by Tim Buckley (Tim Buckley/Larry Beckett)