Sirens 3

In this episode of Sirens we take our third look at what we believe is the truth behind the Myth of Homers story of two sisters whose beautiful and beckoning singing could hypnotize all those who hear it, and thus, compel them to sail their ships into the rocks of their island and drown.

Transcript

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This is Acoustic Avenue. I'm Ted Crouch, your host with Joe Little. On Acoustic Avenue, we recognize with respect and gratitude that these lands where we live, work, and play our music remain home to a number of indigenous nations and people. We acknowledge this land out of respect for the indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Have you ever heard the expression that a myth? Well, what is a myth? A myth is described as a traditional story, often with symbolic meaning, that serves to explain natural phenomena, the origin of a culture or aspects of human existence. Myths are typically rooted in a culture's beliefs and often involve supernatural beings, heroes, and extraordinary events. In today's show, we take a third look at what we believe is the truth behind the myth of Homer's story of the sirens. Two sisters whose beautiful and beckoning singing could hypnotize all those who hear it, and thus compel them to sail their ships into the rocks of their island and drown. That truth being the power of the female singing voice. And in the past century, we have been given dozens of examples of those supernatural voices. This is Dusty Springfield with windmills of your mind, followed by Tracy Chapman and Give Me One Reason.

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And the set ends with Deborah Cox singing Couldn't We Like a circle and a spine, like a wheel within a wee, never ending in a beginning, I'm an ever-spinning wheel, like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon, like a carousel that's turning, running wings around the moon, like a clock whose hands are sweeping as the minutes of its face, and the world is like an apple whirling silently in space, like the circles that you find in the windows of your mind. Where the sun has never shown, like a door that keeps revolving in a half-forgotten dream, or the ripples from a pebble, someone tosses in a street, like a clock whose hand is sweeping past the minutes of its face And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind Keep the jingle in your pocket Where's the jingle in your head? Why did someone go so quickly? Was it something that you saw? Lovers walk along the shore with the sound of distant drum just the thing that you just hang in a hallway and the fragment of a song Perhap remembered names and faces, but to whom do they belong? When you knew that it was over, you were suddenly aware that the autumn leaves were turning to the color of Like a circle in a spile, like a wheel in a wheel, never ending all again on an airless and wheel as the image in wise, and then we're gonna go to the body.

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Oh I know that you got mine You know that I called you I called too many times You can call me, baby, you can call me anytime you got to call me Give me what I reason to steer, and I'll turn her back around. Give me one reason to steer, and I'll turn her back around. And I don't wanna leave you alone. You gotta make me change my mind. I don't want no one to squeeze me, they might take away my life. I don't want no one to squeeze me, they might take away my life. I just want someone to hold me. Oh, unlock me to night, the youthful heart can love you, yes, and give you what you need. I said this a youthful heart can love you. Oh, and give you what you need But I'm too old to go chasing you around, wasting my precious energy Give me one reason to stay here Yes, and I turn my back around Give me one reason to stay here, or I turn my back around leave you lonely. You gotta make me change my mind. Oh, give me just one reason why. Baby, just give me one visa. Oh, give me just one reason why I should say Said I told you that I loved you, and there ain't no more to say.

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Words that hurt inside. Still that's just no reason to say the word goodbye. We can't let go something beautiful. We can't just let it die. Can't you and die? Just try to find one reason to just give us one more. I could love in time take the deal away, it wouldn't be by a game, couldn't we? Couldn't be, couldn't be, couldn't we, couldn't we? Over turn the page to night Nothing wrong between us that love cannot make price Can't we forgive the letter uns forget? Let the love back inside Can't you and I can back to those feelings and feel them just one more time Couldn't I take a deep couldn't do anything I up and back Couldn't we couldn't be couldn't be couldn't we couldn't we'll let the hands of time To the time when love was a right To the night when the card was we've find a way with it with hold each other Just a little bit Couldn't we couldn't we couldn't we be better Couldn't with State Bella Couldn't we make it better Couldn't we turn the paint This is A C Avenue Opening Shania Twain singing from this moment on cryo and the Christian film the first half of today's show with It Makes Me Scream From this moment life has begun from this moment you are the one right beside you is where we love from this moment from this moment I have been blessed I live on the For your happiness and for your I give my last breath from this moment I give my hand to you I can't wait to live my life with you I can't wait to start you would not be a part from this moment. I see the pain of the world and I carry it home. This the way I walk, I walk, I walk, and it's heavy. If you don't care I don't care if you don't care I don't care no more I know you love to block your ears I know you love to close your eyes cause it makes things go easy I tell you there's one thing for that it's quite an easy thing fear feel fear is the most dangerous thing fear teach you down fear is I can't even see my fish is crispy more let me take you by a let me take you by don't have to be scared I know the way pretty well I've walked many times open your wrist open your rest open your mind Cause if you don't care I said I tried my back go wrong Don't let her feel bring you down Don't let her feel bring you down Don't let me bring you down Don't let me wrote fourteen years ago about an interracial relationship still subject in the mid-1960s that Marianne faithful joined the program with yesterday and we end this set with Jane Oliver offering a brilliant interpretation of Lalania a classic from Donovan Leach When you get on the plane of Sana we remember all the danger we came from burning like embers falling tender long before the days of noser end years ago and will you know smoke up if you got them cause it's going down all I ever wanted was you I'll never get to heaven cause I don't know how that's raised I told you everything that blows on you every other loss on you for you everything I lost on you that loss are you lost on you that loss are you lost on you wish to I could see the recognition of the same joy of expectations in your mind hold me like another lost your patience tell me that you love me more than hate me all the time and you'll still mind so smoke over you got of course it's going down all I ever wanted was you let's take a drink of everything turn around head ways help us all the things I bless you everything I lost on you could have been a little bit to all things I bless you every other thing I pass on you to my door baby faces clean and shining black as night my mother went to enter no that you so fine now I could understand you feel that you shame she called you boy instead of your name when she wouldn't let you inside when she turned instead but honey isn't not our kind She says I can't see you walk me down to school baby Everybody's acting definite until they turn and say why don't you stick to your own kinds of laughter smart instead but the deep hand in our bed preachers could be quite thinking it's the one day just let us be a seat one of these days I'm gonna stop my list and gonna raise my head up one of these days I'm gonna raise the mic listen and we must fly but that day we'll have to wait for a while baby I'm only decided to child when we're all the things but now the things the way must remain yesterday all my troubles seem so far away now it looks as though they just yesterday suddenly I'm not half the one I used to be never shall be good that's the time you reason that's your lot in life Lany Let it can your poor get much sadder That's your lot in life laying you can't blame you run your hands your hair change your face with display can your poor get much sadder is that your lot of good major set for today's special sirens with in the dark and Ann Wilson from Hart with today's show with Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston singing When You Believe But soon this chance will be a day And you're gonna be missed. Gee baby, I ain't pretending, I swear, I swear it's fine to be kissed in the dark. Now we may find what the rest have left behind. Just let them dance. We're gonna find romance. Just let them dance. We're gonna find sweet romance, baby. Just let them dance. We're gonna find romance out in the dark. Oh yeah. I'm lying in the rose pitch dark. I wonder where you are tonight. No answer on the telephone. And the night goes by so very slow. Oh, I hope that it will end up. You don't know how long I have a woman to touch your lips in the whole tight. You don't know how long I have away, and I was gonna tell you tonight. But the secret is still my own. And my love for you is still a little bit. In our hearts a home for song we barely understood. No we are not afraid, although we know there's much to fear. We were moving mountains long before we knew we could. Oh yes, there can be miracles when you believe though hope is for real, it's hard to kill. Who knows what miracle you can achieve when you believe somehow you win you will when you believe in this time of fee when press softly moves in a way. Hope seems like the sunbirds too slightly flown away. Yep, now I'm standing here. My heart's so full, I can't explain. Seeking and speaking words I never heard I say it was when you feel when you believe oh bits when it's not too good. Who knows what become you can actually catch when you believe somehow you win you all the way to me to be away, can see the way you will win you really?

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Until next time. And on behalf of your little from our heart to yours. Stay safe. And love the wonder.