Laura Veirs - Cast A Hook In Me Chords

C#m [x 4 6 4 5 4]
AM  [5 7 7 6 5 5]     
E   [0 2 2 1 0 0]
B   [x 2 4 4 4 2] 
A   [x 0 2 2 2 0]

C#m      Am           E               B
Breathe life to the street from your mouth

       A        E         B
Those ruby red lips have much to give

     C#m            Am             E       B
Pull life from the land with your capable hands

       A           E          B
Those life loving beautiful broken hands


         A                 E
O I’ll stand with you and marvel 

         C#m             A
At the cosmos pink and bright

         A               E
All the pages flipping backwards

     C#m               A
‘til time is gone and wrong is right


  A
Rivers running up the hills into the sky 

                C#m       A
And down to the sea

Where a merman with a twinkle

        C#m
Cast a hook in me


C#m       Am          E            B
Sing me a salty blue song I’ll be gone

      A       E           B
With watery cheeks down flowered lanes

          C#m         Am         E            B
Tattered sails, as a ramshackle ship I’ll go pale

           A             E              B
Staring straight in the face, looming tempest waves


      A                 E
Otherwise I’ll wither, die here

         C#m             A
On this reach of rubble rambling

          A                   E
With two ears filled up with sand, dear

        C#m                 A
And a broken gaze I’ll be scrambling


       A
Like rivers running up the hills into the sky

                C#m		A
And down to the sea

						                                     C#m
Where a merman with a twinkle cast a hook in me


       C#m         Am        E          B
Summer sky falling into the sea taking part of me

         A           E           B
See the bones on the sand in the light

         C#m          Am         E          B
All the herds of the sea rushing by pay no mind

         A         E             B
To the dancing reflections gone wild



         A                 E
And at night a fractured star fell

      C#m                      A
And pierced right through the thick of me

        A                E
I cried out in pain and joy, “Yes,

        C#m                  A
I’m not dead, not numb, not withering.”


		   A
Like a fallen leaf who keeps her green

                         C#m     A
I’m turning bright in the sea

                                       C#m
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me.