Sirens Lyrics

My stubble stabs a paper mask as I make my way home

They measured me in Curies, touched my eyeballs through my nose

In a state of isolation, marching towards it's yawning brink

I am followed by a single thought

Dear god I want a drink

I've seen kith and kin succumb to wand'ring through the fog

The whimsy of confusion tar to slow the turning cogs

In perfect silence I can hear a whisper of that plea

That called those sailors to the bustling void that is the sea

And in perfect silence still my deafening worries crash and clink

I am driving home and all I know's

Dear god I want a drink

Maybe not an addict yet

But on the borderline

There's a bottle in the corner of my eye

Bottle in the corner of my eye

I hear a kind voice call me from a cold place in my room

Throughout the day the kind one sings above me as it looms

There some empty cans, a sponge to clean some vomit from the sink

Still I hear the voice that calls me for to have another drink

And nothing feels like anything while walking down the street

My skin has turned to steam that's drifting aimless in the heat

If I doze off on the train I'll wake up twenty years too late

To a town that I don't know and folks to whom I can't relate

And the first thing in the morning after waking I will think

Why is everything so different now

Dear god I want a drink

I can still say not tonight

But haven't found much will to try

Don't have to be dignified this hour of the night

And faced with these anxieties, a siren's song replies

Bottle singing from the corner of my eye

Singing from the corner of my eye