"Sirens" by Angels & Airwaves

There's a weakness in the window
I place my footprints in a dark room
There's lonely voices like a scarecrow
In the hallway like a lost ghost
In the bedroom I see a shadow
From the moon with light from a candle
On a bed frame lies a girl
Her reflection in the mirror

La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
I'd like your eyes wide
La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
I'm knocking at your back door
La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
Nervous like a knife fight
La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
Be careful what you ask for

I do this from time to time
Where I can never wake from a bad dream
I do this from time to time
Where I can never say the things I mean
I do this from time to time
Where I like to watch you as you sleep
I do this from time to time
Where I like to think of you with me

It's a dark night on the west coast
Then a soft breeze as the sun rose
Then the phone rang like a gunshot
Like a siren on the beach rock
There's a message at the river
A certain package here to deliver
When the day breaks after nightfall
I will be there, you know I will

La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
I'd like your eyes wide
La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
I'm knocking at your back door
La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
Nervous like a knife fight
La dada, dadada, dadada, dadada dada
Be careful what you ask for

I do this from time to time
Where I can never wake from a bad dream
I do this from time to time
Where I can never say the things I mean
I do this from time to time
Where I like to watch you as you sleep
I do this from time to time
Where I like to think of you with me
From time to time

I can her you breathe
I'm feeling the shake and the sound of my heartbeat
Can let go
Do you know I’m feeling the pain of my first love
I let it go
Can’t let go

I do this from time to time
Where I can never wake from a bad dream
I do this from time to time
Where I can never say the things I mean
I do this from time to time
Where I like to watch you as you sleep
I do this from time to time
Where I want to taste you as you breathe
From time to time

I do this from time to time
Where I can never wake from a bad dream
I do this from time to time
Where I can never say the things I mean
I do this from time to time
Where I like to watch you as you sleep
I do this from time to time
Where I like to think of you with me
From time to time
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The song "Sirens" by Angels & Airwaves has many similes throughout it. To begin, this is a beautifully written song about two kids who are in love with each other and sneak off at night to an abandoned house to be alone with one another. Now for the similes (Which are all italicized in the lyrics). The first is the line "There's lonely voices, Like a scarecrow." This is a simile because as we all know scarecrows don't talk, but if you think about it they probably are really lonely because there stuck in those fields all day. So if they did talk they'd probably say there lonely. Second is the line below it "In the hallway like a lost ghost." This is talking about those lonely voices, this simile is talking about how (like the scarecrow) ghosts are also seen as lonely, just putting more meaning on how quiet the house they are in is. Next is the line from the chorus "Nervous like a knife fight." It is possible to be nervous at a knife fight, thinking about a knife fight, or seeing a knife fight but it's pretty hard to be nervous like a knife fight. That's why this is a simile because you can as nervous as a knife fight but not nervous like one. Next are the two lines "Then the phone rang, like a gunshot/Like sirens on a beach rock." These two are similes because a phone can be loud but it can't ring like a gunshot and also even though the phone may seem like it's pulling it towards him it can't mesmerize him like the Sirens of Homer's "Odyssey".