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Hear the sirens, hear the sirens.
Hear the sirens,
Hear the circus so profound.
I hear the sirens,
More and more in this here town.
Let me catch my breath
To breathe and reach across the bed.
Just to know we're safe.
I am a grateful man.
This life has been a light and I can see clear
Oh, I have to take your hand and feel your breath.
For fear that someday we'll be over.
I pull you close. So much to lose
Knowing that nothing lasts forever.
I didn't care before you were here.
I danced with laughter,
With the ever-after
But all things change.
Let this remain.
Hear the sirens
Covering distance in the night.
The sound echoing closer.
Will they come for me next time?
For every choice, mistake I made, is not my plan
To send you in the arms of another man
And if you choose to stay, I'll wait, I'll understand
Oh, it's a fragile thing, this life we lead.
If I think too much I can't get overwhelmed by the grace by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders.
Want you to know
That should I go,
I always loved you,
Held you high above too.
I studied your face,
And the fear goes away.
Oh, it's a fragile thing, this life we lead.
If I think too much I can't get overwhelmed by the grace by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders.
Want you to know
That should I go,
I always loved you,
Held you high above too.
I studied your face,
And the fear goes away,
The fear goes away,
The fear goes away.
Fear goes away.
Ah, ah, oh, oh
Hear the sirens,
Hear the circus so profound.
I hear the sirens,
More and more in this here town.
Let me catch my breath
To breathe and reach across the bed.
Just to know we're safe.
I am a grateful man.
This life has been a light and I can see clear
Oh, I have to take your hand and feel your breath.
For fear that someday we'll be over.
I pull you close. So much to lose
Knowing that nothing lasts forever.
I didn't care before you were here.
I danced with laughter,
With the ever-after
But all things change.
Let this remain.
Hear the sirens
Covering distance in the night.
The sound echoing closer.
Will they come for me next time?
For every choice, mistake I made, is not my plan
To send you in the arms of another man
And if you choose to stay, I'll wait, I'll understand
Oh, it's a fragile thing, this life we lead.
If I think too much I can't get overwhelmed by the grace by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders.
Want you to know
That should I go,
I always loved you,
Held you high above too.
I studied your face,
And the fear goes away.
Oh, it's a fragile thing, this life we lead.
If I think too much I can't get overwhelmed by the grace by which we live our lives with death over our shoulders.
Want you to know
That should I go,
I always loved you,
Held you high above too.
I studied your face,
And the fear goes away,
The fear goes away,
The fear goes away.
Fear goes away.
Ah, ah, oh, oh
Writer: McCready, Mike / Vedder, Eddie
Copyright: Lyrics © Monkeywrench Records, Universal Music Group
Copyright: Lyrics © Monkeywrench Records, Universal Music Group
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Sirens Info:
Sirens was released on September 18, 2013
as a digital download as the second single from Pearl Jam's tenth studio album Lightning Bolt.
Producer Brendan O'Brien, who has worked with Pearl Jam since their 1993 Vs. album, called this song,
"one of the best songs they've ever written."
Guitarist Mike McCready told Billboard magazine that he wrote the music for the song after a Roger Waters concert for The Wall inspired him. "I wanted to write something that would have a Pink Floyd type feel," he said, "We recorded a demo of it [but Vedder] didn't put the Lyrics on it until the second time we went back in... I heard them the night that he put them on there and they just brought me to tears. This is Ed at his best in my mind."
Sirens one of several tracks on Lightning Bolt that reference mortality. Vedder told Rolling Stone the album has a lot of Lyrics about the passing of life and ageing because "They say to write what you know. I think that's maybe one thing that we all know [laughs]. It's living while you're alive, and living to the day you die, and being cognizant of the end, and you might lead a more appreciative life, if that's part of your approach."
Eddie Vedder talked to Rolling Stone about writing mellower music in his middle age, such as this song. The Pearl Jam frontman said there is more "sentimentality" in his Lyrics nowadays, adding, "For years, it was playing word games and expressing those emotions, but doing it in such a way that was cryptic and where Mark Arm from Mudhoney would still have some modicum of respect for me. But nowadays, it's more like sitting down and writing a song, and whatever comes out, comes out."
Guitarist Mike McCready told Billboard magazine that he wrote the music for the song after a Roger Waters concert for The Wall inspired him. "I wanted to write something that would have a Pink Floyd type feel," he said, "We recorded a demo of it [but Vedder] didn't put the Lyrics on it until the second time we went back in... I heard them the night that he put them on there and they just brought me to tears. This is Ed at his best in my mind."
Sirens one of several tracks on Lightning Bolt that reference mortality. Vedder told Rolling Stone the album has a lot of Lyrics about the passing of life and ageing because "They say to write what you know. I think that's maybe one thing that we all know [laughs]. It's living while you're alive, and living to the day you die, and being cognizant of the end, and you might lead a more appreciative life, if that's part of your approach."
Eddie Vedder talked to Rolling Stone about writing mellower music in his middle age, such as this song. The Pearl Jam frontman said there is more "sentimentality" in his Lyrics nowadays, adding, "For years, it was playing word games and expressing those emotions, but doing it in such a way that was cryptic and where Mark Arm from Mudhoney would still have some modicum of respect for me. But nowadays, it's more like sitting down and writing a song, and whatever comes out, comes out."
From the Album:
Lightning Bolt (2013)
Released:
September 18, 2013
Format:
Digital download
Genre:
Alternative rock
Length: 5:41
Label:
Monkeywrench
Writers:
Mike McCready
Eddie Vedder
Producer:
Brendan O'Brien
Music video:
"Sirens" on YouTube
The music video was released on September 18, 2013.and directed by Danny Clinch.
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