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(17) THE SHARK AND THE MERMAID - BILLIE MEYERS
dedicado a Aglaope...<3...mi hermana sirena aquí en el mundo de xH! (pretty mindless lyrics, but an OK beat and melody.
Fun Fact: which prior neighborhood of mine is the cover photo of the CD snapped in?
https://youtu.be/6No3tXrMnDQ?list=PL7hrp6yCsY0l27l9KjLVNBZJqWtzZP5-U




Without a moments hesitation
They threw caution to the wind
He though, she must be blind not to see
He was no prince charming, no beauty

She held flowers at her fingertips
And honey fell from her lips
He dived into the oceans wild
As she swam with the morning mist

He said, if it's mine it will be always yours
Cast away any doubt and open up those doors

It was the shark and the mermaid
Making love again
It was the shark and the mermaid
Falling in love again
It was the shark and the mermaid
Proving everybody wrong
It was the shark and the mermaid
Swimming by again

But as they grow in mind and body
And the days turned into years
He thought one day she might go away
But her love overshadowed his fears

Under the liquid sky
Where they lived they were legends to behold
Fate distracted by their simple charms
Left them there to love alone

Now the angels wait patiently
For the shadows down below, they stop and smile because

It's just the shark and the mermaid
Making love again
It's just the shark and the mermaid
Falling in love again
It's just the shark and the mermaid
Proving everybody wrong
It's just the shark and the mermaid
And the mermaid, and the mermaid

Nobody thought that the love will last
Everybody looked and everybody laughed
But the mermaid and the shark they just slipped away
Nothing stopped them, no one got in their way

Standing together as lovers and friends
They stayed together, their love knew no end
Proving everyone wrong
They grew together, they were strong
Everybody was wrong

About the, about the
Shark and the mermaid
Making love again
The shark and the mermaid
Falling in love again
The shark and the mermaid
Together till the end
It was the shark and the mermaid
And the mermaid, and the mermaid makin' love
It was the shark and the mermaid
Makin' love, makin' love, makin' love, makin' love, makin' love


(16) NO ORDINARY LOVE - SADE (she's a mermaid in the video!)
https://youtu.be/_WcWHZc8s2I?list=PL7hrp6yCsY0l27l9KjLVNBZJqWtzZP5-U



I gave you all the love I got
I gave you more than I could give
I gave you love
I gave you all that I have inside
And you took my love
You took my love
Didn't I tell you
What I believe
Did somebody say that
A love like that won't last
Didn't I give you
All that I've got to give baby

I gave you all the love I got
I gave you more than I could give
I gave you love
I gave you all that I have inside
And you took my love
You took my love

I keep crying
I keep trying for you
There's nothing like you and I baby

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love

When you came my way
You brightened every day
With your sweet smile

Didn't I tell you
What I believe
Did somebody say that
A love like that won't last
Didn't I give you
All that I've got to give baby

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love

I keep crying
I keep trying for you
There's nothing like you and I baby

This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love
This is no ordinary love
No ordinary Love

Keep trying for you
Keep crying for you
Keep flying for you
Keep flying I'm falling

I'm falling

Keep trying for you
Keep crying for you
Keep flying for you
Keep flying for you I'm falling
I'm falling

(15) OCEAN - MIKE PERRY Featuring SHY MARTIN
https://youtu.be/5JxgDJvqGmM?list=PL7hrp6yCsY0l27l9KjLVNBZJqWtzZP5-U



You can be my guided light
Keep me, company in the night
That's all I need, all I want
Is for you to stay a little longer now
With arms around me, like a border
Like the air I breathe, I let you in
Keep me warm underneath my skin
Cause I'm

Giving in to your touch
I can never get enough
Diving deep into the ocean
Ocean
Ocean
Ocean

You can be my safety zone
Somewhere I can go when I feel alone
That's all I need, all I want
Is to stay a little longer now
Arms around me like a border
Like an endless stream
You take me in
To a place that I've never been
Now I'm

Giving in to your touch
I will never get enough
Diving deep into the ocean
Ocean
Ocean
Ocean

(14) COLUMBUS - MARY BLACK (one of my favorite Irish singers)
https://youtu.be/JKW5ZUjK2xc (live at the Olympia Dublin 2003)
https://youtu.be/vM75YriDPhE (original)



Better keep your distance from this whale
Better keep your boat from going astray
Find yourself a partner and treat them well
Try to give them shelter night and day
'cause here in this blue light
Far away from the fireside
Things can get twisted and crazy and crowded
You can't even feel right

So you dream of columbus
Ever time the panic starts
You dream of columbus
With your maps and your beautiful charts
You dream of columbus
With an ache in your travelling heart

See how the cormorant swoops and dives
Must be some thrill to go that deep
Down to the basement of this life
Down to where the mermaid gently sleeps
Not like here in this blue light
Far away from the fireside
Where things can get twisted and haunted and crowded
You can't even feel alright

Chorus

And as tide must ebb and flow
I am dragged down under
And I wait the livelong day
For an end to my hunger

So I dream of columbus
Every time that the panic starts
I dream of columbus
With my maps and my beautiful charts
I dream of columbus
And there's peace in a traveling heart
I dream of columbus

(13) MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE - THE POLICE
https://youtu.be/MbXWrmQW-OE
"Love can mend your life or love can break your heart"



Just a castaway
An island lost at sea
Another lonely day
With no one here but me
More loneliness
Than any man could bear
Rescue me before I fall into despair

I'll send an SOS to the world [2x]
I hope that someone gets my [3x]
Message in a bottle [2x]

A year has passed since I wrote my note
But I should have known this right from the start
Only hope can keep me together
Love can mend your life
But love can break your heart

I'll send an SOS to the world [2x]
I hope that someone gets my [3x]
Message in a bottle [4x]

Walked out this morning
Don't believe what I saw
A hundred billion bottles
Washed up on the shore
Seems I'm not alone at being alone
A hundred billion castaways
Looking for a home

I'll send an SOS to the world [2x]
I hope that someone gets my [3x]
Message in a bottle [4x]

Sending out an SOS [16x]

(12) CAPSIZE - FRENSHIP W/ EMILY WARREN
https://youtu.be/kOyBhtPF5aw (OFFICIAL)
https://youtu.be/cDEUNh_kOIc (ANIMATED WITH LYRICS)



Up at night I'm awake cause it haunts me
That I never got to say what I wanted
Oh my God, oh my God
I’m not the same as I was with you
I would jump out my skin just to get you
Oh my God, oh my God
How could you have ever known
If I never let it show, now I just wanna know are you?
I'm fine
Drop tears in the morning
Give in to the lonely
Here it comes with no warning
Capsize, I'm first in the water
Too close to the bottom
I'm right back where I started
Said I'm fine
Your silhouette is burned in my memory
Rubble left from the moment that you left me
Oh my God, oh my God
And three words have never come easy
Cause you're more than they ever could be
Oh my God, oh my God
How could you have ever known
If I never let it show, now I just wanna know are you?
I'm fine
Drop tears in the morning
Give in to the lonely
Here it comes with no warning
Capsize, I'm first in the water
Too close to the bottom
I'm right back where I started
Said I'm fine
I'm swimming up against the tide
Oh my god
I'm swimming but I'm getting tired
Oh my god
I'm swimming up against the tide
Oh my god
I'm swimming but I'm getting tired
Oh my god
I'm fine
Drop tears in the morning
Give in to the lonely
Here it comes with no warning
Capsize, I'm first in the water
Too close to the bottom
I'm right back where I started
Said I'm fine
I think about you, love you, and I'm filled with pride

(11) HARVEST MOON - NEIL YOUNG
https://youtu.be/xMjDc8MJotU




Come a little bit closer
Hear what I have to say
Just like c***dren sleepin'
We could dream this night away.

But there's a full moon risin'
Let's go dancin' in the light
We know where the music's playin'
Let's go out and feel the night.

Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon.

When we were strangers
I watched you from afar
When we were lovers
I loved you with all my heart.

But now it's gettin' late
And the moon is climbin' high
I want to celebrate
See it shinin' in your eye.

Because I'm still in love with you
I want to see you dance again
Because I'm still in love with you
On this harvest moon.

(10) I AM NO MERMAID - SINÉAD LOHAN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyBiQ1ODxdU (original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIMOsmaZIFw (Joan Baez cover)



we went down to the edge of the water
you were afraid to go in
you said there might be sharks out there in the ocean
and i said i'm only going for a swim

i was swimming around in a circle
i wasn't always in view
you said we might get into red flag danger
and i am alone when i'm not with you

but i am no mermaid
i am no mermaid
and i am no fisherman's slave
i am no mermaid
i am no mermaid
i keep my head above the waves

we were swinging from the centre of the ceiling
you were afraid to give in
i said i know i'll always live for this feeling
and you closed your eyes you said never again

we were dancing in the middle of the desert
you said we'll burn under the hot sun
i said i'd rather be the colour of pleasure
than watch like you from under the thumb

but i am no mermaid
i am no mermaid
and i am no fisherman's slave
i am no mermaid
i am no mermaid
i keep my head above the waves

we went down to the edge of the water
you were afraid to go in
you said there might be sharks out there in the ocean
and i said i'm only going for a swim

i was living around in a circle
i wasn't always in view
you said we might get into red flag danger
and i am alone when i'm not with you

but i am no mermaid
i am no mermaid
and i am no fisherman's slave
i am no mermaid
i am no mermaid
i keep my head above the waves

(9) LA CHANTE DES SIRÈNES - Frero Delavega
https://youtu.be/Mqb8weZrKN4 (official)
https://youtu.be/Tuh6x_tqvvc (acoustic)



Enfants des parcs, gamins des plages
Le vent menace les châteaux de sable façonnés de mes doigts
Le temps n'épargne personne hélas
Les années passent, l'écho s'évade sur la Dune du Pyla
Au gré des saisons, des photomatons,
Je m'abandonne à ces lueurs d'autrefois
Au gré des saisons, des décisions, je m'abandonne

Quand les souvenirs s'en mêlent, les larmes me viennent,
Et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver
Oh mélancolie cruelle, harmonie fluette, euphorie solitaire

Tadalalala, tadalalala
Tadalalala, tadalala

Combien de farces, combien de frasques
Combien de traces, combien de masques
Avons-nous laissé là-bas
Poser les armes, prendre le large
Trouver le calme dans ce vacarme avant que je ne m'y noie

Au gré des saisons, des photomatons,
Je m'abandonne à ces lueurs d'autrefois
Au gré des saisons, des décisions, je m'abandonne

Quand les souvenirs s'en mêlent, les larmes me viennent,
Et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver
Oh mélancolie cruelle, harmonie fluette, euphorie solitaire

Oh
Oh

Quand les souvenirs s'en mêlent, les larmes me viennent,
Et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver
Oh mélancolie cruelle, harmonie fluette, euphorie solitaire

Quand les souvenirs s'en mêlent, les larmes me viennent,
Et le chant des sirènes me replonge en hiver
Oh mélancolie cruelle, harmonie fluette, euphorie solitaire

Tadalalala, tadalalala
Tadalalala, tadalala

Tadalalala, tadalalala
Tadalalala, tadalala

(8) THE SEA & THE RHYTHM - Iron & Wine (Sam Beam)
(Thanks, Mercutio85)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQbxlXYVUY (live in Düsseldorf)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rPJ7SUrwg (con letra/ subtítulos en español)



Tonight we're the sea and the salty breeze
The milk from your breast is on my lips
And lovelier words from your mouth to me
When salty my sweat and fingertips

Our hands they seek the end of afternoons
My hands believe and move over you

Tonight, we're the sea and the rhythm there
The waves and the wind and night is black
Tonight we're the scent of your long black hair
Spread out like your breath across my back

Your hands they move like waves over me
Beneath the moon, tonight, we're the sea

(7) LOVE IS THE d**g - Roxy Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3OepDn5GU
(Thanks, britinbxl)



T'ain't no big thing
To wait for the bell to ring
T'ain't no big thing
The toll of the bell
Aggravated - spare for days
I troll downtown the red light place
Jump up bubble up - what's in store
Love is the d**g and I need to score
Showing out, showing out, hit and run
Boy meets girl where the beat goes on
Stitched up tight, can't shake free
Love is the d**g, got a hook on me
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the d**g I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the d**g for me
Late that night I park my car
Stake my place in the singles bar
Face to face, toe to toe
Heart to heart as we hit the floor
Lumber up, limbo down
The locked embrace, the stumble round
I say go, she say yes
Dim the lights, you can guess the rest
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the d**g I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the d**g, got a hook in me
Oh oh catch that buzz
Love is the d**g I'm thinking of
Oh oh can't you see
Love is the d**g for me


(6) MERMAID - Bobby Bare (This one is great for a laugh!)
https://youtu.be/G_gabCJvcVY
http://www.jango.com/music/Bobby+Bare/_full_bio

When I was a lad in a fishing town an old man said to me
You can spend your life, your jolly life just sailing on the sea
You can search the world for pretty girls till your eyes're weak and dim
But don't go swimming with a mermaid son, if you don't know how to swim.

'Cause her hair is green as seaweed and her skin is blue and pale
And I tell you now before you start you can love that girl with all your heart
But you're just gonna love the upper part you're not gonna like the tail.

So I signed onto a whaling ship and my very first day at sea
I seen a mermaid in the waves a reaching out to me
Come live with me in the sea said she and down on the ocean's floor
I'll show you a million wonderous things you never seen before.

So over I jumped and she pulled me down down to her seaweed bed
And the pillow made of tortoise shell she placed beneath my head
She fed me shrimps and caviar upon a silver dish
From her head to her waist she was just my taste but the rest of her was a fish.

Her hair was green as seaweed and her skin was blue and pale
And her face it was a work of art and I loved that girl with all my heart
But I only loved the upper part I did not like the tail.

Then one day she swam away and I sang to the clams and whales
I missed her fins and her seaweed hair and the silvery shine of her scales
Then her sister she swam by and set my heart awhirl
Cause her upper part was an ugly fish but the bottom part was a girl.

Yeah her toes are pink and rosy and her knees are smooth and pale
And her legs they are a work of art and I love that girl with all my heart
I don't give a damn 'bout the upper part and that's how I end my tale...

(5) SONG TO THE SIREN (cover) - Sinead O'Connor
https://youtu.be/64I2M-k2AEo



(4) SONG TO THE SIREN (cover) - Robert Plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOHGXyajxM



(3) MERMAID - Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nilUlU6fM0s



Whoa, whoa

Can’t swim so I took a boat
To an island so remote
Only Johnny Depp has ever been to it before.
Stayed there 'til the air was clear.
I was bored and out of tears,
Then I saw you washed up on the shore.

I offered you my coat,
Thank goodness love can float
Crazy how that shipwreck meant my ship was comin’ in.
We talked 'til the sun went down.
Love on the Puget Sound.
My treasure map was on your skin.

Beauty in the water,
Angel on the beach.
Ocean’s daughter.
I thought love was out of reach
'Til I got her.
Had I known it could come true?
I would have wished in ’92
For a mermaid just like you, whoa,
Just like you, whoa.

Sharks green with envy, they wonder what you see in me
Funny but sometimes can’t help but wonder that as well
Now life is a holiday, making up for the years I paid
The way to this heavenly bay it went through hell

Beauty in the water,
Angel on the beach.
Ocean’s daughter.
I thought love was out of reach
'Til I got her.
Had I known it could come true?
I would have wished in ’92
For a mermaid just like you, whoa,
Just like you, whoa.

Rescued you by the banyan tree,
All the girlfish in the sea
Couldn't hold a candle to you,
They don’t have a handle on you,
They don’t have a scandal on you
I love Ecco Sandals on you
Saving me was B-I-G,
All the boyfish in the sea
They all wish that they could be me

Can’t swim so I took a boat,
To an island so remote
Only Johnny Depp has ever been to it before

Beauty in the water,
Angel on the beach.
Ocean’s daughter.
I thought love was out of reach
'Til I got her.
Had I known it could come true?
I would have wished in ’92
For a mermaid just like you, whoa,
Just like you, whoa.

Just like you, whoa
Just like you, whoa

(2) SONG TO THE SIREN (cover) - This Mortal Coil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ
(Thanks, _Rollo_)



Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me, sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me ?
Were you hare when I was fox ?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing
'Touch me not, touch me not
Come back tomorrow
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Shies from the sorrow'

I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled as the tide
Should I stand amid your breakers ?
Or should I lie with death my bride ?
Hear me sing
'Swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you'

SONG TO THE SIREN (original) - Tim Buckley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTEtDBHGY4



(1) MERMAIDS - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
(Gracias, MarioAgain! Muy amable.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4CkPM0LJT4




She was a catch,
We were a match
I was the match that would fire up her snatch
There was a catch
I was no match
I was fired from her crutch
Now I sit around and watch
The mermaids sun themselves out on the rocks
They are beyond our touch
I watch and watch
Wave at me
They wave at me
They wave and slip
Back into the sea

All the ones who come
All the ones who go
Down to the water
All the ones who come
All the ones who go
Down to the sea

I believe in God
I believe in mermaids too
I believe in 72 virgins on a chain (why not, why not)
I believe in the rapture
For I've seen your face
On the floor of the ocean
At the bottom of the ray

I do drive a relentless course
I do husband alertness course
I do mermaid alertness course
Watch them out on the rocks
Wave at me
Wave at me
They wave and slip
Back into the sea

All the ones who come
All the ones who go
Down to the water
All the ones who come
And all the ones who go
Down to the sea

For all the ones who come
And all the ones who go
Down to the water
All the ones who come
And all the ones who go
Down to the sea