Siren Song

Living, longing
Cross the sea
I call you now
Come to me

Cast the net
Cast the wave
Cast the song I sing to you
And hope that you can still be saved

Sitting alone for centuries
My heart's been lonely all this time
Once the sea had been my lover
And now I'm punished for this crime

I was seduced
To my shame
Love is life
but life is pain

I ignored the warnings
I shunned the signs
I saw this beauty
and thought it mine

The waves caressed me
Winds made me sigh
I left one who loved me
For this lie

He'd loved me true
He'd loved me fair
and yet I left him
For salty air

The sea, alas, was not true
He hid from me another love
That jealous one who stole the tides
That silver mistress up above

In tears I fled
from the sea
To other lover
found taken from me

That jealous mistress
Who hated me so
Hid my love
and bade me go

She tols me wait
by the sea
And call passing ships
for company

Perhaps one hid the man I'd loved
She hinted at with twinkling eye
Perhaps he'd come if I would sing
and call out to the passers-by

This jealous lover left me then
And so I wait by the sea
Calling out to hidden love
Before this lover who so scorned me

I try and call the one I lost
Weaving notes ni wave and sand
I sing to ships that pass me by
And crash gracelessly to the land

This net I weave
This net I sing
This calling of a lonely heart
Knows not which the pain it brings
It knows only the Sea's caress and sting