x 4 6 4 5 4
C#m
577655
AM
0 2 2 1 0 0
E
x 2 4 4 4 2
B
x 0 2 2 2 0
A
C#mAM EB
Breathe life to the street from your mouth
AEB
Those ruby red lips have much to give
C#mAM EB
Pull life from the land with your capable hands
AEB
Those life loving beautiful broken hands
AE
O Ill stand with you and marvel
C#mA
At the cosmos pink and bright
AE
All the pages flipping backwards
C#mA
til time is gone and wrong is right
A
Rivers running up the hills into the sky
C#mA
And down to the sea
Where a merman with a twinkle
C#m
Cast a hook in me
C#mAM EB
Sing me a salty blue song Ill be gone
AEB
With watery cheeks down flowered lanes
C#mAM EB
Tattered sails, as a ramshackle ship Ill go pale
AEB
Staring straight in the face, looming tempest waves
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AE
Otherwise Ill wither, die here
C#mA
On this reach of rubble rambling
AE
With two ears filled up with sand, dear
C#mA
And a broken gaze Ill be scrambling
A
Like rivers running up the hills into the sky
C#mA
And down to the sea
C#m
Where a merman with a twinkle cast a hook in me
C#mAM EB
Summer sky falling into the sea taking part of me
AEB
See the bones on the sand in the light
C#mAM EB
All the herds of the sea rushing by pay no mind
AEB
To the dancing reflections gone wild
AE
And at night a fractured star fell
C#mA
And pierced right through the thick of me
AE
I cried out in pain and joy, Yes,
C#mA
Im not dead, not numb, not withering.
A
Like a fallen leaf who keeps her green
C#mA
Im turning bright in the sea
C#m
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me.