This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Are you my family?
Can I stay with you a while?
Can I stop off in your bed tonight?
I can make you smile
In the morning I'll make you breakfast
In the evening I'll warm the bed
And I'll always be happy to kiss you
Promise I'll never get sad
'Til the siren come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil
Mama was a heartbreaker, loved you
The same way I do
But I've got so much wickedness and sin
My name is Pearl and I love you
The best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart
And the siren come calling
It won't be long
Until you're running
Help you dress yourself up fancy
And bathe you when you get sore
I'll be good
I think I could
Be all you would want and more and more
Be proud when you dazzle the wanderers
Glitter your eyes for the town
Tell every last boy that you're my man
I'll try not to let you down
'Til the siren come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil
Mama was a heartbreaker, loved you
The same way I do
But I've got so much wickedness and sin
My name is Pearl and I love you
The best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart
And the stars are exploding in your eyes
It won't be long until you're running
No, it won't be long 'til you're running
It won't be long until you're running
It won't be long until you're running
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil
Can I stay with you a while?
Can I stop off in your bed tonight?
I can make you smile
In the morning I'll make you breakfast
In the evening I'll warm the bed
And I'll always be happy to kiss you
Promise I'll never get sad
'Til the siren come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil
Mama was a heartbreaker, loved you
The same way I do
But I've got so much wickedness and sin
My name is Pearl and I love you
The best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart
And the siren come calling
It won't be long
Until you're running
Help you dress yourself up fancy
And bathe you when you get sore
I'll be good
I think I could
Be all you would want and more and more
Be proud when you dazzle the wanderers
Glitter your eyes for the town
Tell every last boy that you're my man
I'll try not to let you down
'Til the siren come calling, calling
It's driving me evil, evil
Mama was a heartbreaker, loved you
The same way I do
But I've got so much wickedness and sin
My name is Pearl and I love you
The best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart
And the stars are exploding in your eyes
It won't be long until you're running
No, it won't be long 'til you're running
It won't be long until you're running
It won't be long until you're running
'Cause I'm evil
'Cause I'm evil
Lyrics submitted by playedinstereo, edited by Stockholm
Siren Song Lyrics as written by Natasha Khan
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I definitely agree with the majority of above about the sense that the "siren" is something calling her away from this seemingly perfect life/relationship. Personally, for me, this song is about somebody who longs to be the perfect girl/boyfriend to another, and aspires to do all of these typical things for them in order to make them happy - "i could make you smile. in the morning i'll make you breakfast in the evening i'll warm the bed. and i'll always be happy to kiss you" All of these things seem to be what she perceives love as, and she longs to be part of it. However, when she talks of her 'alter ego' I feel she is trying to show who she really is, and the previous statements is a fantasy or form of denial ;
"i was a heartbreaker, i loved you the same way i do. i've got so much wickedness and sin. my name is pearl and i'll love you the best way i know how" To me, it is obvious here that she know she can never love somebody as much as others could, as she has come to terms with her own selfish and destructive personality traits. There is a deep sense of regret in this song, I also feel that a sense of loneliness comes across as well as she wants so badly to be good to someone, but knows she never can as the inevitability of the relationship ending because of something she will do always hangs in the back of her mind.
I think Pearl IS the siren. She's singing about the two parts of who she is... she's the sweet loving person that draws her lover in, and then the evil siren that destroys him because she can't help it.<br /> To me it's like the scorpion and the frog.