Song to The Siren

I watched The Lovely Bones the other night. Well, and the other day too, because I fell asleep 3 times and had to rewind it and finally at about midnight I gave up about 2/3 through. So I watched the end the next day. And then I had to watch again the part where she meets the other girls in the field, when at the same time, the trunk is being dumped into the landfill.

It was a trippy movie. And the song was haunting me - like I had heard it a long time ago. So I looked it up, and of course, yes, I'm old enough to now remember when this was first recorded by Tim Buckley. Gosh, surely this seems like one that Jeff could have done justice to as well.

What a beautiful movie. Sad, but the way it was filmed was really pretty. The one thing that sorta creeped me out was that little girl looks a lot like my daughter - well, if she wore one of those knitted caps. I loved the colors, particularly the rainbow of 15 minute credits at the end.


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'

Tim Buckley