Siren's Call, Now in iTunes Options

[Old Man Withers]

SirensCall is now available on iTunes. I have to say, very solid song!

[PhoenixDecay]

why do you think it's definitely a break-up song

I am with you in questioning that. In my post I want to give a possible explanation and close it with my own view of the song.

I think the breakup situation is the easiest thing you could think of when you read the lyrics, but it's not the only interpretation of them.
Of course the Sirens are something tempting, you have to withstand, because it would be your downfall. You have to take measures like tying on a mast of the ship, because you would be too weak to resist on your own.
It's obvious to say that this is about someone you love and you had to break up and it's just so so hard to not call. Because with that interpretation it's so so easy to downclass the lyrics. Now they sound much more like the usual Chart Pop Music where there is actually someone singing about breaking up and it's being so so hard. In fact this interpretation is built by listening mainly to those kind of songs? Maybe ...
But to just deny that you can interpret SC in many ways, just because the essential content of the lyrics is very simple is a bold statement. The suspicion, that the person offering those views is doing this intentionally to downgrade the song is actually not less appropriate than his statement itself. And if so, it's a dead discussion right from the start. A discussion like this is left for dead when there is no honesty in the argumentation and everyone just wants his point to be made, regardless of what the other side has to offer.

I like Siren's Call because the lyrics build a setting shown in the story of the greek mythology. In Taylor's guitar riff I hear the staggering waves beating the ship, the dynamics of the song reflects the inner struggle the person has to fight against the temptation the beautiful song of the Siren's offer him. The euphoric state he is in, when he is giving in and he can hear the Siren's Calling. But in reality he's still tied to the mast and his outer world is going mad.
Topic and setting is, of course subjectively, perfectly captured in a consistent atmosphere. When I listen to SC, I am on this ship fighting against the waves and almost giving in to the easy way out, dying to silence it all.
This is what a song should do. And to compare this to a charts song in which the character is sad about a breaking up so we write a song in minor is a very vulnerable attitude.
If you want to discuss the sonical quality of the production of the song, that is a different story ...

Anyway Live's lyrics around TDTH were not that different. On surface they were about "her" when in fact it could be about anything in the universal "love" spirit, just in different tints and shades.

This post has been edited by PhoenixDecay: Sep 25 2014, 5:11 am