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Siren Lyrics
And you know you're gonna lie to you
In your own way And you know you're gonna lie to you In your own way And I lie some other day You do And you say, girl Know too well Know the chill Know she breaks My siren Know teenage flesh Know the chill Know she breaks My siren Never was one for a prissy girl Coquette Call in for an ambulance Reach high Doesn't mean she's holy Just means she's got a cellular handy Almost brave, almost pregnant Almost in love, in love Vanilla And you don't need the light on To guide you through the southern lands You go Said go, yes
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06-20-2002
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06-29-2002
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07-13-2002
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07-25-2002
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03-10-2003
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03-29-2003
uhmm if u relate it to the movie..then find the guy lost it raped her and killed her..whatever...
but..when tori wrote the song..she was thinking about something really delicate like a siren..and how sirens happen to be a myth about them driving men to the sea ..making them go all crazed over them..i think its about the power women have over men..how they lie to themselfs.."in your own way" i think as in..pretending to care just to have one by their side..and then to brake us..but in the end they only break themselfs..cuz women..hell we fall in love every year..comaring to men who fall in love just one..and when they do..they can kill for it..and we just die for it..
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04-21-2003
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05-05-2003
This a beautiful, powerful song, and I swear She meant it to be!
I guess her songs are meant to be taken in many levels and not just about what you think. You appropriate it into a war song, and it still is Siren.
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10-18-2004
I think it's about two girls, and the hate of one to the other. the observer, the simpler girl, watching the coquette getting in trouble, her lovely & desirable troubles, and hating her. "doesn't mean she's holy, just means She's got
a Cellular handy". 'dont make her a saint. she just happen to be there, dont fucking adore her', and so forth.
breaking the siren - just thought of it - the siren might be the voice. like an ambulance siren. yes, a voice, but still fragile, and can still be taken away, broken, by this coquette, who is estimated to be more valuable than the speaker.
ofcourse, no clue why and who will lie to himself in his own way, nor the "almost brave almost pregnant almost inlove" and more than that - "vanilla"? :)
And just for the record, this missing sentence, "And you dont need the light on to guide you through the southren lands you go", is one of the most beautiful sentences in Tori's songs, in my opinion.
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11-08-2004
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03-02-2005
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10-04-2005
and you know you're
gonna lie to you
in your own way
know know too well
know the chill
know she breaks
my siren
NEVER was one
for a
prissy girl
coquette
call in for
an ambulance
reach high
doesn't
mean SHE'S
holy
just means
she's got a cellular
handy
almost
brave
almost
pregnant
almost in love "VANILLA"
and you know you're
gonna lie to you
in your own way
and you don't need the light
to guide you though this
If you read the song canvas, or at least the chapter in which it is mentioned, in Tori's book Piece By Piece, I think you all might view this song in a different way. Or at least hear it differently; the time in her life and the pain she was feeling the day it was recorded might just tug at your emotional chords a bit more.
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01-12-2006
Personally it reminds me of a girl I was once with. WHen you fall in love with some one who is not anywhere as great as you believed she was in your head. ONce you have her you realise all her defects, prissy, distant, selfish and inmature. Like a siren it guided all your efforts to a rock where you crash and realize love isnt what you believed it was. love can mess with your head and make you believe they are someone that they are not. The worse is you never fall in love liek that again because you now know.
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06-16-2006
'and you know you're gonna lie to you in your own way' = don't idolise her, you know she doesn't deserve it. see sense. etc.
tori sees the weaknesses of the other woman (she breaks) and reminds the man of her imperfections.
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08-18-2007
"know she breaks
my Siren"
She's the embodiment of that sound - the sound of a Siren. And it's mass panic and whirring and ambulance and disastor.
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02-22-2008
The first verse is about the deceit of her charm, and her ability to convince herself and her partners that she is capable of profound love. The second is about the Sirens' true emotionally undeveloped nature. The next verse explains that just because she has the ability to make guys fall in love with her doesnt mean that she can actually give true love but it means that she just knows how to seduce them.
"Almost brave, almost pregnant, almost in love, vanilla", is the truth of her in sadness, cowardice and fear emotional attachment.
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04-01-2008
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07-31-2008
He's lying to himself about the state the relationship is in, and he knows that she breaks, she is his siren, teasing him (a coquette) and making him crash.
And he sees everything she does as this grand gesture, even though it's not (like callin the ambulance cuz she's got a cellphone)
I agree with the previous interpretation on the "almost" brave, pregnant, in love. She doesn't take the jump...
The correct part is
"And you don't need the light on
to guide you through
the Southern Lands.
You go.
Say it.
Oh."
Yes.
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08-26-2008
gonna lie to you.
And in your own way.
You know you're
gonna lie to you.
And in your own way
And I lie
some other day.
Oh, to do in.
And you say
You
know know too well.
Know the chill.
Know she breaks
my Siren.
No teenage flesh.
Know that she'll
know she breaks
my Siren.
Now I know
that you
know I...
NEVER was one
for a
prissy girl
coquette
Call in for
an ambulance
Reach high
doesn´t
mean SHE´S
holy
just means
She´s got a cellular
handy
almost
Brave
almost
pregnant
almost, ya know
in love. "VANILLA"
Vanilla.
and you know you´re
gonna lie to you
and in your own way.
And you know you're
gonna lie to you.
And in your own way.
And you don't need the light on
to guide you through
the Southern Lands.
You go.
Say it.
Oh.
Yes.
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01-14-2009
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02-12-2009
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02-12-2009
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07-11-2009
I thought about what this song might mean for Tori and I believe it has something to do with her miscarriage.
She was never one for BEING a prissy girl or calling an ambulance.
She reached high as a prayer for her child not to be taken away as she called for help.
ALMOST pregnant, almost love, almost VANILLA, as in the comfort and security of a family.
I don't know the details of her miscarriage, but this is what the song means to me, because of what it meant to Tori.
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07-15-2009
The siren, as mentioned above, is the seductress woman who lures men into her territory. It is one that preys on men; it lies to them to control them in a way that is concealed under the glamor of a lusty red dress, sex and even the promise of love. I believe Tori is using the idea of a siren as a seductive,controlling, emotionally destructive and hardened woman. The siren is one who will avenge what has been robbed from her by breaking the hearts of men.
She begins by saying she is lying to herself. She describes this woman as regretfully familiar (know too well), she brings out her cold side (know the chills), acts like a lusty teenager(the associated word flesh emphasize the sexuality of adolescence) but most importantly she know she breaks... (when something is too hard and stiff, it is inflexible and that means it can be easily shatter and so ultimately it is fragile, weak).
She emphasizes all this again by saying she never had time - or could not afford - to be weak or a prissy girl, or never acted like a vulnerable woman calling for an ambulance (never called for help about what happened to her in her past). She might convince the man that she is holy, brave/strong/ like she would make a good wife/mother, like she would love you and is pure (vanilla), but these are things she can never give commit to because she is fractured and broken. She is never quite perfect, like vanilla is never quite white.
Not too sure about the last bit....You don't need to the light on to guide you through the southern lands; this might mean you don't need to be 'present' or 'no-one needs to be at home' to explore the southern lands (to have sex with someone). You can detach you self from this act , which is one of the most potentially controlling and imprisoning acts a woman or a man can do.
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10-08-2009
the feel i always got of it was-- that it all wasn't a put-on show for her. some women simply have that THING that draws people to them, without their trying. 'you don't need the light on to guide you through the southern lands'. you put her in riches or you put her in rags and it doesn't change how she's received. and with estella if you watch the movie, she's taught it all young, so being aloof, mysterious, and alluring aren't an act. it sort of seems compulsory.
'she breaks'? him... herself... both?
'call in for an ambulance; reach high, doesn't mean she's holy, just means she's got a cellular handy'. perhaps it seems supernatural to others, but from her side...
'almost brave, almost pregnant, almost in love--' she's Almost all through. which is a heartbreaking place to be, for both her and him. that's what always bites me on this piece. and it reminds me of the taxicab scene. if there's one scene that comes close to contemplating her as the song feels like it does to me and the entire rest of the movie does for him-- it's this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSbCmpzU5I
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