I feel stupid, What is Sirens About?

jbalicki10
jbalicki10 Posts: 517
edited September 2013 in The Porch
I understand it is a love song, but what the heck are the sirens? (Police Sirens? Tornado Sirens? Greek mythology Sirens?)

Sorry just really confused...
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  • RE4790
    RE4790 Posts: 826
    jbalicki10 wrote:
    I understand it is a love song, but what the heck are the sirens? (Police Sirens? Tornado Sirens? Greek mythology Sirens?)

    Sorry just really confused...

    I interpreted the word as "warning signs" in his relationships, meaning the song is about the fear he feels at potentially losing the connections with those he loves. It's not a straight up love song in that sense, but more like he is reassuring himself that love will win out.
  • DevonPearl
    DevonPearl Posts: 284
    Mike sayd he wrote "Sirens" and that it was inspired by seeing Roger Waters live in concert. Ed wrote the lyrics after staying up all night in LA and listening to the sirens in the streets.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    jbalicki10 wrote:
    I understand it is a love song, but what the heck are the sirens? (Police Sirens? Tornado Sirens? Greek mythology Sirens?)

    Sorry just really confused...
    ok,if..if...Eddie put this tittle,cos has in mind Greek Mythology Sirens i would be very impressed with the metaphor he try to create...
    cos then,the meaning of the songs,will take another brilliant turn..
    thinking of what Sirens were, Beautiful deceptive women that lured sailors to their deaths in stormy waters,

    then this part,maybe have a different meaning..

    "It’s a fragile thing, this life we lead, if I think too much, I can get over-
    Whelmed by the grace, by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders"


    shit,this song is brilliant any way u feel and understand it

    for me,,,by Sirens is the "voices inside my head" that play mind games about love got lost,the mislead of taking love for granted ..and finally love somehow will make it and win..

    and at some point..i get the feeling of want to have the "last words" before the end,even in a way of an apology..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • sparky_fry
    sparky_fry Posts: 760
    edited September 2013
    Thats the beauty of music everyone has their own interpretation.

    I feel the first half of the song is about getting older:

    "I could take your hand, and feel your breath
    For fear that someday we'll be over...
    I danced in laughter with the ever after
    But, all things change, let this remain"

    Coming to terms with getting older and eventually death.

    The second half it seems tragedy has hit his wife, and the sirens represent an ambulance (i believe anyway"

    "Hear the sirens… covering distance in the night
    The sound, echoing closer, will they come for me next time"

    He's getting older as well so the next ambulance may be for him.

    "To send you in the arms of another man
    And if you choose to stay, I’ll wait, I’ll understand"

    I've read here that someone thinks the other man is God, but it could also be a doctor/ambulance driver for that matter.

    "death over our shoulders"

    and

    "I studied your face, the fear goes away"

    Could be that the wife is in the hospital and he's looking at her face or she has passed and he's looking at old pictures.


    Again theres no right answer, music is about how it makes you feel personally.



    "The fear goes away"
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  • Pushin Forward Back
    Pushin Forward Back Posts: 890
    running from police... living in the hood.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    sparky_fry wrote:
    Thats the beauty of music everyone has their own interpretation.

    I feel the first half of the song is about getting older:

    "I could take your hand, and feel your breath
    For fear that someday we'll be over...
    I danced in laughter with the ever after
    But, all things change, let this remain"

    Coming to terms with getting older and eventually death.

    The second half it seems tragedy has hit his wife, and the sirens represent an ambulance (i believe anyway"

    "Hear the sirens… covering distance in the night
    The sound, echoing closer, will they come for me next time"

    He's getting older as well so the next ambulance may be for him.

    "To send you in the arms of another man
    And if you choose to stay, I’ll wait, I’ll understand"

    I've read here that someone thinks the other man is God, but it could also be a doctor/ambulance driver for that matter.

    "death over our shoulders"

    and

    "I studied your face, the fear goes away"

    Could be that the wife is in the hospital and he's looking at her face or she has passed and he's looking at old pictures.


    Again theres no right answer, music is about how it makes you feel personally.



    The fear goes away"
    love this..and yes..death is anoither way to understand,explain this..

    we really need Eddie talks about this song..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Soulfire42
    Soulfire42 Posts: 404
    The best interpretation I've yet heard is that it's about Michael Jackson and little children. Listen to the lyrics that that in mind and the sirens take on a whole new meaning. Hahah
  • Kimmiebyrom
    Kimmiebyrom Posts: 1,832
    Right on, Dimi. I FEEL this song! So many emotions...
    Yesterday I felt something deep, and today it's gone even deeper.
    I love your statement about the mythological Sirens...wow that REALLY does bring a new perspective.
    One that I love.
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    How I choose to feel is how I am.
    There's just one word I still believe...and it's LOVE.
    "Take care of one another..." -EV
  • Force Of Nature
    Force Of Nature York, England Posts: 1,141
    Its a love song. About how you are so in love that it haunts your life, you cant enjoy the good times because you're so worried about what might happen if you lose her. The sirens represent everyday life and how we lose people everyday, it could be any one of us. The only way you can get forget this worried feeling or ignore the sirens is to 'study your face, the fear goes away'.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    Force Of Nature wrote:
    Its a love song. About how you are so in love that it haunts your life, you cant enjoy the good times because you're so worried about what might happen if you lose her. The sirens represent everyday life and how we lose people everyday, it could be any one of us. The only way you can get forget this worried feeling or ignore the sirens is to 'study your face, the fear goes away'.
    very very nice...
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Force Of Nature
    Force Of Nature York, England Posts: 1,141
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    Force Of Nature wrote:
    Its a love song. About how you are so in love that it haunts your life, you cant enjoy the good times because you're so worried about what might happen if you lose her. The sirens represent everyday life and how we lose people everyday, it could be any one of us. The only way you can get forget this worried feeling or ignore the sirens is to 'study your face, the fear goes away'.
    very very nice...
    Thanks, the song just brought that feeling out of me, thats the beauty of music, especially anything by these guys
  • fortyshades
    fortyshades Posts: 1,835
    RE4790 wrote:
    jbalicki10 wrote:
    I understand it is a love song, but what the heck are the sirens? (Police Sirens? Tornado Sirens? Greek mythology Sirens?)

    Sorry just really confused...

    I interpreted the word as "warning signs" in his relationships, meaning the song is about the fear he feels at potentially losing the connections with those he loves. It's not a straight up love song in that sense, but more like he is reassuring himself that love will win out.

    I like this intepretation... Combining it with Dimitris: maybe love itself, or the realization of love, is deadly.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    copy paste,conversation of facebook with friends - 2 different post..

    "
    "In terms of the lyrics of the song I love the feeling of it, how it combines love and the existential fear of death. I can imagine a man lying in a bed one arm over his loved one who is asleep and he hears a siren and than all of these thoughts come up and without even noticing his arm is holding his loved one tighter and tighter. that's what came up for me when I listened to it... and I normally HATE love songs."
    "For me as a cancer survivor it describes exactly how much I now appreciate loved ones, and also how hard it is to live a life of grace with death always sitting right on my shoulder. He articulates it so well, it made me cry"
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    Brilliant!!!
    Life is fragile, stop thinking, stop being fearful and start living & loving before you start dying.. Ah ah oh oh ah ah oh oh..
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • fortyshades
    fortyshades Posts: 1,835
    dimitrispearljam wrote:
    copy paste,conversation of facebook with friends - 2 different post..

    "
    "In terms of the lyrics of the song I love the feeling of it, how it combines love and the existential fear of death. I can imagine a man lying in a bed one arm over his loved one who is asleep and he hears a siren and than all of these thoughts come up and without even noticing his arm is holding his loved one tighter and tighter. that's what came up for me when I listened to it... and I normally HATE love songs."
    "For me as a cancer survivor it describes exactly how much I now appreciate loved ones, and also how hard it is to live a life of grace with death always sitting right on my shoulder. He articulates it so well, it made me cry"

    :thumbup: Beautiful...
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    edited September 2013
    I think the sirens are literal sirens. Emergency sirens. Blaring in the night and interrupting sleep.

    When the narrator of this here song (we'll call him "Ed") hears the sirens, it leads him to reflect on the fragility of life, how everything we hold near and dear to us can be gone or wrecked or otherwise permanently altered in a heartbeat.

    Every morning when we wake up, there are 1,000 ways our lives can come completely unraveled. One false move, and everything goes up in smoke. If we really dwell upon how fragile life is, it would lead to total paralysis.

    It is a song, primarily, about fear and how love affects that fear.
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    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • fortyshades
    fortyshades Posts: 1,835
    slightofjeff wrote:
    I think the sirens are literal sirens. Emergency sirens. Blaring in the night and interrupting sleep.

    When the narrator of this here song (we'll call him "Ed") hears the sirens, it leads him to reflect on the fragility of life, how everything we hold near and dear to us can be gone or wrecked or otherwise permanently altered can be gone in a heartbeat.

    Every morning when we wake up, there are 1,000 ways our lives can come completely unraveled. One false move, and everything goes up in smoke. If we really dwell upon how fragile life is, it would lead to total paralysis.

    It is a song, primarily, about fear and how love affects that fear.

    Can do nothing else than :clap: . This is also my sense of the song.
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,747
    slightofjeff wrote:
    I think the sirens are literal sirens. Emergency sirens. Blaring in the night and interrupting sleep.

    When the narrator of this here song (we'll call him "Ed") hears the sirens, it leads him to reflect on the fragility of life, how everything we hold near and dear to us can be gone or wrecked or otherwise permanently altered in a heartbeat.

    Every morning when we wake up, there are 1,000 ways our lives can come completely unraveled. One false move, and everything goes up in smoke. If we really dwell upon how fragile life is, it would lead to total paralysis.

    It is a song, primarily, about fear and how love affects that fear.
    thats awesome!
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    What's interesting to me, according to the song, is that love can affect that fear in conflicting ways.

    At first, love makes you MORE fearful. Before love, our narrator ("Ed") didn't feel like he had that much to lose. Death was not as scary. "I danced in laughter with the everafter" (MY GAWD, what an awesome line, by the way).

    But by the end of the song, love is the thing that chases the fear away. "I study your face, and the fear goes away."
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • fortyshades
    fortyshades Posts: 1,835
    slightofjeff wrote:
    What's interesting to me, according to the song, is that love can affect that fear in conflicting ways.

    At first, love makes you MORE fearful. Before love, our narrator ("Ed") didn't feel like he had that much to lose. Death was not as scary. "I danced in laughter with the everafter" (MY GAWD, what an awesome line, by the way).

    But by the end of the song, love is the thing that chases the fear away. "I study your face, and the fear goes away."

    Well, that is the complexity of adult love, though, isn't it? Especially, if you have children. The more you love, the more intense the sense of mortality gets. But it is this same love that equates the fear.

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