Song to the Siren

<p><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Song to the Siren</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is the best of Larry Beckett's lyrics of the past fifty years conceived as poems that can be sung. Most have been set to music and recorded. It includes every kind of lyric: ode cycle carol hymn ballad serenade erotica blason aria blues lullaby elegy. Song to the Siren itself written with Tim Buckley in the sixties is a modern standard recorded by This Mortal Coil Robert Plant Bryan Ferry George Michael Sinead O'Connor Kitty Macfarlane and over a hundred other musicians. It's been played in a number of film soundtracks: Moonlight Mile Lost Highway The Lovely Bones Justice League. This is its first publication. The book includes an appendix with music sources and recording history for each lyric and an essay on the genesis of Song to the Siren.</span></p>