I heard this Mortal Coil version of Song to the Siren some forty years ago as a teenager. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard and haunted me wonderfully for years. Every so often it creeps up, either in my mind or someone using it for their project, but it will always be to me, the most incredibly beautiful songs of all time. Swim to me let me enfold you. Thank you Tim Buckley for writing such an emotive piece, but thank you Elizabeth Fraser for burning your voice into my soul.

Elizabeth Fraser’s voice is out of this world. Love this song!

This Mortal Coil - song to the siren is pure beauty. One of the greatest songs of all time! Brings a tear to my eye every time.

Lost Highway and this song together are one of the finest pieces of art from 20th century

I heard this song on "The Lovely Bones" made me cry so much 😭😭😭😭

I first heard this song in 2011. I was deep into heroin addiction and had been up for days in horrible withdrawal really trying with everything inside me to kick the heroin. At that time, in the middle of the night, at my absolute lowest point with my mind and body ravaged from the agony of withdrawal and ready to just die and have some relief I stumbled across this youtube video with this angelic song and for a moment I had the relief I was longing for. It's really strange and hard to explain but this song touched my soul in a way I'll never forget, other songs can do something similar but this song at that moment was almost like a religious experience. Today I am six years free from heroin and I come back here from time to time to re-live that moment.

this was one of my wife's favourite songs and we played it at her funeral when she passed last year on her birthday aged 55 from cancer

Still takes my breath away, after all of these years.

One of the most emotional songs of all time.

When you need a good cry, and the tears won't come. This works every time. The sense of loss and longing is palpable.

This is simply a track of pure beauty. If it isn't played at my funeral, then I'm not going 🧡

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 here when I was flotsam? 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 Well I'm as puzzled as the newborn child I'm as riddled as the tide Should I stand amid the 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

She puts her entire soul into this recording. Incredible

Hauntingly beautiful...When she sings, "Oh my heart, oh my heart shies from the sorrow," it gets me, every time.

I came to America in 84,my heart was broken into gazillion pieces and I was married to a friend who lived in Minneapolis, we met in Pakistan, I was Yugoslavian from Belgrade! I was something of a poet,my heart was pure poetry! I didn't know anyone and run into a guy buying beer! He invited me to his house and I couldn't believe that I walked into Van Gough painting, every inch was hand painted with yellow, orange, black and white, probably some other colors but orange and yellow were electric vibrant! He rolled a joint, my first in America and I laid in a couch,as he told me, listen to this sound, I just got the record! This Mortal Coil and everything started to make sense, the painted house, vibrant colors, excruciating pain from a broken heart, my thoughts changed from self pity to freedom of gratitude and hope that she's not suffering and remembering that saying that It's better to have loved and lost, than never loved at all! After the Song of the Siren, he said, oh if you dig this you'll love C. Twins

I don't cry much but this song brings memories from my childhood when i guess we were all happier. I can almost taste and hear stuff i thought i forgot forever. It always brings tears to my eyes.

This is not a song, it’s a spell and it’s haunted me for years.

Reading all the comments makes me cry even more than the song, the power of music keeps all humans together. We should arrive in this world while music is playing, to open immediately our hearts to the existence.

Whoa. Watching Lockwood & Co. Got this 80's flashback. Memories. Love how our music is coming back around. 💙

Discovered this incredible song and singer about 15 minutes ago and WOW! What a great day to be alive ❤

I played this tape non stop… NON. STOP. I could never get enough of this song… I felt this in my soul. Still do.

no words can describe the emotions from this song...

Sends shivers down my spine .Liz Frasers voice is so beautiful ❤

Her voice for me seems to reach every atom of my body … I can’t explain it properly but her and the music that accompanies her voice go deep down … it’s like it speaks to my soul.

I chose this song for my father’s funeral as he was a sailor/submariner, this was the contemplation music. Its ethereal and brilliant

This was my mother’s favourite song. She always asked me to listen to it. She passed away last week. I’ll miss you mum 💔

It’s March 2024. I can’t believe someone could be so talented as this singer. Spine tingling

It unbelievable. The incredible melody, tone, the lyrics . Poetic, mythical, timeless, mysterious. The ocean as a metaphor for love. And the songwriter and his son both drown. It's just too much.

Absolutely NOT the sound of depression. It's the sound of aching love with abstract sound textures. In other words, bloody fucking wonderful and life-affirming.

I have never heard anything so beautiful.

My youngest sister (RIP) bought this so many years ago. I absolutely love this song, and it reminds me of her,Lindsey, love you miss you ❤❤❤

What an absolutely beautiful song ❤️

David Lynch, thank you with all my heart for bringing me here. May light and love shine upon the world.

Every time I hear this version I break into tears. This was the perfect song for Lovely Bones. The scene with all the kids before Susie Salmon goes to heaven. Its just so sad. But then you hear Tim Buckley's version and you get a totally different feeling.

The most beautiful song ever recorded. 🇬🇧

I've just discovered this, and I'm absolutely floored by it. It's bewitching. I've always admired Liz for her beautifully unique voice, but this? This is beyond anything I've heard before.

First heard this song in the army. Early 90’s. Some soldiers sitting listening to music. Got me right in the heart. 28 years later it still does. For me it’s a prayer. It’s religious. It’s mourning, longing. Thank you so much.

Liz and her vibrato, Robin and his hair, Tim and his song, an unlikely combination that adds up to perfection and the ultimate love song. You're an alien cyborg if it doesn't make you cry at some point in your life. The look in her eyes tells the tale almost as well as the song.

i can never listen to this song without sobbing.

One of the most beautiful songs ever, this is just outa this universe.❤❤❤

The best moment in The Lovely Bones.

I played this song while my mom was dying. And then we played it again today at her funeral I'll forever love you Mom and Dad watch over me

Lockwood & co brought me back to this long forgotten Gem 🥰 such a beautiful song , loved it in Gladiator with Russell Crow too ❤

Wish you hope. Sorry for your loss. We carry on and think we'll get better.👍

Sussie Salmon🌹

It is a rare thing indeed, when a song as timeless as Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” can be reinterpreted in a way that moves beyond the version we once knew and takes it into the depths of our broken hearts and wounded souls. This version carries with it a thousand tears from everyone who found it in their own time of need. It’s ironic that Tim’s son, Jeff Buckley did the same thing with Leonard Cohen’s “Halleljuah”. His plaintive rendition transcends the original.

Amazing vocals by Elizabeth Fraser. One of the best covers ever!

I first heard this song in Lovely Bones and the part where her dad is just having a complete breakdown made me cry so hard, this movie by far is the only movie that has ever made me cry like that, the song just puts all of the emotions together…

One of the most beautiful songs and arrangements ever.

40 years old, never gets old though.

Tears are falling from my face. Amazing song. I am speechless. I am sorry.

This song is beautiful, but super melancholic at the same time.... Elizabeth Fraser's voice is just amazing....

Liz's vocals are astonishing, so beautiful.

Impossibly gorgeous, makes me sob without fail every time. Tim's original and this rendition are both some of the most beautiful songs ever created

Can't believe I just discovered this. It went straight to my heart & soul. Makes me weepy and happy. Fantastic voice!

I weep like a small boy every time I hear this. Wonderful song. How I love melancholy...

When I hear this song I think of the scene from the movie The Lovely Bones where Susie finally accepts her death and goes to Heaven. It is such a beautiful scene, and this song goes perfectly with it and I cry every time I see it.

It's one of the most beautiful, ethereal songs I have ever heard. I well up every single time I hear it.

Liz's voice is just breathtaking.

Anybody else get full body GOOSEBUMPS when listening to this???

For me this truly is a Siren's Song. I am completely mesmerized by her voice.

This is played in the Lovely Bones movie. When Susie Meets all the other victims of the killer. It is one of the most emotional moments in a movie I have ever seen. It is intensified by this song. I’m a 6’4” married man, and I had to swallow my tears. Bravo to the director and the band.

This song is just hauntingly gorgeous. And the artist is perfect in her sincerity. Yes-great song for our Moms!

The Lovely Bones scene when they (all his victims) finally ascended into Heaven!💔🕊🕊🕊🕊🥺😢😢😩

Still listening to this Mortal Coil in 2020 from a song written in 1968, Tim was amazing.

Beautiful woman, beautiful words, beautiful voice.

ive listened to every version of this song and love them all, But only this version gives me goosebumps. Amazingly haunting

One of the best ever written....perfection

I listen to this song again and again every time I want to let go of my tears. I remember my grandmother and this destroys my soul. Without a doubt, a work of art.

When I first heard this song in the early nineties, every hair stood up on my body and I had such a visceral reaction, I broke down into tears. No one can ever replicate or come close to Fraser’s truly otherworldly vocals - in this lifetime or a thousand.

This song was the theme song for The lovely bones so I came to listen to it. Beautiful song.

still breathtaking after all these years. that hair!

I've listened to this countless times over the years it always starts off with one listening but a dozen replays later I have to stop. It rips at my heart and soul everytime for many different reasons. Memories of a childhood lost and numerous regrets but it also gives me strength that I survived and still here. Elizabeth Fraser has a voice of genuine uniqueness thank you

I saw this song first time in 2009. I was 12 and watched the lovely bones. It made me cry then and it was a sad story, but the song itself was so sad but hopeful. I couldn’t tell what she was saying it just moved me to tears at 12 that’s all I know. And I just discovered today that this queen Liz from Cocteau Twins was the one that sang it. Now it all makes sense why I loved the song so much. I love Cocteau Twins!

Regardless of who you are this song will break you down into pieces. Feeling all the feelings you can feel

It's about time Elizabeth Fraser was presented to the whole world, one of the most beautiful souls, a very talented and original singer, she eclipses today's so called singers💞💕💞

Still the most perfect piece of pop music of the 80s! 40 years old my gosh.

Stumbled across this again lately. Such enigma delivered by Elizabeth in these lyrics. Magical … I won’t be the only youth to have had a crush on her in those days. Thank you.

I Dedicate this to my Mother Lety who passed away of Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer On February 11 of 2020 I miss you so much I can't help shedding a tears for you every time I hear this .

I remember hearing this as a young pup, stopped me in my tracks. Feel the same at 51 . I will lay to rest to this .

There is absolutely none of the hundreds of times I've heard this when I don't cry. It was in my top 5 on Spotify last year and this year, and I always cry. I don't know what emotions fill me, but they're too much to ignore.

One of the most beautiful songs for ALL time 🖤

30 years on and it still stops me dead in my tracks. Fantastic and timeless.

This is my funeral song , got the single when it first came out back in the day. It sounded like nothing from it’s time , it still does ❤️👍

The most beautiful, nostalgic and sad song I have ever heard. I lost My mom four months ago and I play this song precisely to remember her.

So much emotion in her voice. Makes me tear up every time 💞

I've been listening to this song for over 30 years, and still the goosebumps won't stop. This version of the song is sublime, harrowing and totally mesmerising. I'm not articulate enough to describe its beauty. But I don't need to be, just listen to it. "Oh, my heart, shies from the sorrow."

4AD during the 1980s put out some of the most fascinating music that there has ever been. Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, The Wolfgang Press, Colourbox, Lush, Pixies, Throwing Muses, etc... This Mortal Coil was a collective group of like minded people put together by Ivo Watts and this is the result: this version of Song To The Siren is one of the most beautiful songs I have heard and will ever hear. And possibly the greatest ever cover version. Thank you Ivo for bringing 4AD to us. But I have to admit I miss the 1980s.

I heard this song many years ago, and since then, I think it's the saddest song I could ever find. Every time I hear it, I feel like crying, but I don't know the reason for that feeling. At this moment, as I write these lines, I feel tears falling, and I don't know why. I am grateful for the existence of this melody, which reminds me of my father's caresses, and curiously, it was only two years ago that I lost him and he left for eternity, but since then I have felt this sadness that I cannot get out of my heart.

Just discovered this and I gotta say, one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Stunning. Still. All these years. Her voice melts my soul.

when watching The Lovely bones, this song gives me chills, absolutely moving.

Rest in peace my baby sister, Sharisse.. I’ll never forget you. ❤ ❤ ❤

Elizabeth Fraser is my hero, I love her so much. Her voice is magical 🩵

Elizabeth Fraser always had a voice out of time. A truly unreal vocalist at times. The Cocteaus are an all time band for me for sure.

Still haunting and emotional - I bought the album when it was released, this song and Liz's voice have lost nothing over the years....❤❤❤❤😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤

That is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard

I don’t cry a lot. Being a male in a black household I was just raised that way. But the way this song passes through my entire body my very soul and into my heart. I just laid down and cried for almost an hour now.

Tim Buckley's (who I consider one of the most gifted and best artists of all time) original is close to perfection but this cover is out of this world, Liz Fraser's voice is etheral and so beautiful

On the floating, 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 here when I was full sail? Now my foolish boat is leaning Broken lovelorn on your rocks For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not Come back tomorrow: O my heart O my heart shies from the sorrow" Well I'm as puzzled as the newborn child I'm as riddled as the tide: Should I stand amid the 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"