Song Of The Week: Sirensong by The Cure

Hello everyone,

This Song Of The Week post is about Sirensong from The Cure, since it got the most votes on the poll :)

I discovered The Cure in the winter of 2010/2011. I don't really remember why, but I think I just heard their name somewhere and looked them up or something. I found out about their 2008 album, 4:13 Dream, listened to it, and liked it a lot. On my holiday in Czech I found the album in some CD shop (in Czech the music shops have the biggest selection of alternative/rock/metal/deathcore/whatever music ever! They have everything) and brought it immediately. We played it a lot in the car, my parents like The Cure too, it reminds them of the 'good old times' or something, and I listened to it on my iPod as well so whenever I listen to it now it just brings back the holiday feelings and I love it. Sirensong in particular is a very dreamy song, like ocean waves almost. It's really peaceful.
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On the website SongMeanings.com, I found this comment: It's basically someone so wanting to be together and wishing the other one felt the same, but like many of his songs, he doesn't care and is stuck thinking: shall I lie and tell her will love her forever? Sometimes he gets in the game and deceives her, and sometimes shocks her as she's innocent so he can get rid of her, sometimes wants perhaps to abuse her and in the end, he tells her to fuck off. If she dont' get the message that he basically either hates or despises her, which sounds like that to me, then wot? 




I have been looking, but couldn't find an official source to confirm this meaning, but I was thinking the same thing actually. You can find the lyrics from Sirensong here (all the songs from the album are in the list, just scroll down and you'll find Sirensong too)


A nice newsflash is that The Cure will be playing at several European festivals this summer, including Pinkpop in The Netherlands. Which of course is totally awesome and I am going to beg my parents for money for a ticket. Which they are totally not going to give me but I can give it a shot though.

Thank you for reading!

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

Sources used in this post:

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858745734/
http://www.thecure.com/words/2005-20xx.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cure