Siren *Seiren*

"This is the song that the Siren album is named after (going by the spelling used on Hirasawa's official website). The word seireen refers to the Sirens of Greek mythology."

Lyrics

 * 1 "The meaning of the verb sarau changes depending on the kanji used:
 * 浚う to sweep away; to wash away; to dredge
 * 攫う carry something off [away]; run [walk] away [off] with something; sweep [wash] something away; kidnap
 * 復習う go over; review; rehearse; run through
 * However, sarau is written in hiragana here.
 * When looking up sarau in a Japanese-to-Japanese dictionary, I found that one of the example sentences for 復習う was 小唄を復習う (kouta wo sarau, “to rehearse a ballad”). Thus I have decided to go with the third meaning here. In contrast, I went with a different meaning in “Caravan”, which also has sarau written in hiragana instead of kanji.
 * As a side-note, the first time I saw the official Japanese lyrics for this song, I was surprised to see that saku was written with the kanji 裂く (“to tear, cleave, cut open”) instead of 咲く (“to blossom, bloom”) – I had always assumed it was the latter because of the flower mentioned in the first verse."
 * 2 "I had expected to romanize 名 as na, but it sounds to me as if he’s actually saying mei here instead (The official lyrics don’t include any furigana).
 * UPDATE: I think he might actually be saying ne, as in 音 (“sound”)."