Ulysses and the Sirens

“I heard you calling on the megaphone You wanna see me all alone”

The video's storm-and-sirens scene was read as an echo of Draper's Ulysses and the Sirens, in which the sirens climb from a heaving sea toward the hero's boat. Set beside the opening drowning tableau, the allusion turns the song's call-and-rescue into something more double-edged: a voice on the water that may lure as easily as save.