The Siren

Siren’s are these evil beings from Greek Mythology, that lure sailors with their beautiful voices and drown them in the sea. But to me, Sirens were more than some tall tale, they represented the idea of toxic relationships.

 

When I wrote the poetry for this piece, I made sure that the Siren (the singer) never says ‘I love you’ or ‘I care about you’, and that all the Siren would say is full of lies and empty promises. But despite all that, the sailor (the listener) can’t help but to be drawn to the trance and the music of the Siren.

 

I used the piano to symbolize the waves with the ceaseless arpeggios, and I utilized strumming the piano strings by hand to symbolize the deep, dark ocean. The singer begins with singing diatonically, but as the piece progresses, she shifts into more disjunct and atonal melodies as a way to show how the Siren’s ugly truth slowly comes to light.

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Text:

 

Come my sailor

Hear my silken voice

As I sing my song for you

come to me, like you have a choice

 

So tall and handsome are you

Lock your blue eyes in my trance

See our family together

Look at out future together

As we wade through the waves

in this deadly dance

 

Oh, I want your eyes

I want your hair

I want your skin

I want your mouth

and your tongue

and your lips

So place them on me now

And seal our lust with a kiss,

The kiss of death

 

But I don’t really want you

all that I’ve said was untrue

So plunge forever

In the eternal grey hue