Songwriter: Steven Sater Duncan Sheik
Producer: Duncan Sheik
And there were mermaids--weren't there?--
Sweet silver mermaids
All through that grey Trafalger Square
Such silver mermaids
They were young, and they were fair
They brushed their bronze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, Sad Stephen
Come, and play here."
"You will love, you will be loved
You will grow up, and do so much
You will be strong, you will be sung
By all the mermaids. Silver mermaids..."
And once they'd sung their satin song
They beckoned to me from the fog--
They spread their arms and lifted
Pale-portrait faces...I was taken
To their coral cavern halls
To rooms with oyster shells for walls
To sandy nooks, to pearly books,and ivory dolls...
In ivory stalls, in ivory stalls...
And there were mermaids--weren't there?--
Sweet silver mermaids
All through that wan, forgotten square
Silver mermaids
They were young, and they were fair
They brushed their broze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, Sad Stephen, come."
And I was taken
Was I wrong? Should I have run?
I wanted all, I wanted young
And portrait faces...I was taken
Did I love? I didn't care
Did I grow up? Well, uaware
And was I strong? And was I sung?
How do I haunt Trafalgar fog
And find I want so much, still want--
And no more mermaids
No more mermaids...
Sweet silver mermaids
All through that grey Trafalger Square
Such silver mermaids
They were young, and they were fair
They brushed their bronze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, Sad Stephen
Come, and play here."
"You will love, you will be loved
You will grow up, and do so much
You will be strong, you will be sung
By all the mermaids. Silver mermaids..."
And once they'd sung their satin song
They beckoned to me from the fog--
They spread their arms and lifted
Pale-portrait faces...I was taken
To their coral cavern halls
To rooms with oyster shells for walls
To sandy nooks, to pearly books,and ivory dolls...
In ivory stalls, in ivory stalls...
And there were mermaids--weren't there?--
Sweet silver mermaids
All through that wan, forgotten square
Silver mermaids
They were young, and they were fair
They brushed their broze and dusky hair
And whispered, "Come, Sad Stephen, come."
And I was taken
Was I wrong? Should I have run?
I wanted all, I wanted young
And portrait faces...I was taken
Did I love? I didn't care
Did I grow up? Well, uaware
And was I strong? And was I sung?
How do I haunt Trafalgar fog
And find I want so much, still want--
And no more mermaids
No more mermaids...
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Phantom Moon (2001)
Duncan Sheik popular songs
- Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind
- The Dark I Know Well
- The Song of Purple Summer
- Left Behind
- Those You’ve Known
- And Then There Were None
- The Word of Your Body
- Totally Fucked
- The Guilty Ones
- The Word of Your Body (Reprise)
- Whispering
- The Mirror-Blue Night
- I Believe
- Barely Breathing
- There Once Was a Pirate
- Hey Casanova
- William, It Was Really Nothing
- House Full of Riches
- White Limousine (radio edit)
- How It Feels
- Reasons for Living (La Leche mix)
- Magazines
- Sad Stephen’s Song
- On a High (Love From Humboldt dub)