THIS MORTAL COIL "IT'LL END IN TEARS"  LP 1983

song to the siren

On the floating shapeless 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 dreamt about me?
Were you hare when I was fossil
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 sun.'

Well, I'm as puzzled as the newborn child
I'm as riddled as the tide:
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Or 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.'

another day

The kettle's on
The sun has gone
Another day

She offers me
Tibetan Tea
On a flower tray

She's at the door
She wants to score
She dearly needs to say

I loved you a long time ago, you know
Where the winds on forget-me-nots blow
But I just couldn't let myself go
Not knowing what on earth there was to know

But I wish that I had 'cause I'm feeling so sad
That I never had one of your children

Then across the room
Inside a tomb
The chances waxed and wanes

The night is young
Why are we so hung up
In each others' chains?

I must take her
And I must make her
While the dove's domain

And feel the juice run as she flies
Run my wings under her sighs
As the flames of eternity rise
Two liquors with the first born
Lash of dawn

Oh really my dear
I can't see what we fear
Sat here with ourselves in between us

And at the door
We can't see more
Than just another day

And without a sound
I turn around
And I walk away