"Song to the Siren" was released in 1970, on the album ‘Starsailor’. Though his original author is Tim Buckley, it is well known to have been covered by numerous artists including Robert Plant on his 2002 album ‘Dreamland’, and as a duet with Plant and English tenor Alfie Boe on his 2011 album ‘Alfie’. It has also been covered by Mercury Prize nominee Susheela Raman on her album ‘Salt Rain’, and by John Frusciante on his 2009 album ‘The Empyrean’. The song has also become better known for the version by Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie (from The Cocteau Twins) under the bandname This Mortal Coil. This later version would become immensely popular, topping the UK charts and being later used in many instances on film ( on David Lynch´s Lost Highway) and advertising (on the ad for Cacharel´s parfume brand "Noa"), as well as being versioned by several other groups. In tune with the "sailor" them of the album, revolving around voyages, the song is heavily based on the mythical figure of Sirens, as seen in Homer´s "The Odyssey".