Chords for Laura Veirs - Cast A Hook In Me

_ _ Breathe _ life [E] to the street [B] from your mouth.
_ Those [E] ruby red lips [B] have much to give.
[C#m] Pull life from the [E] land with your [B] capable hands.
_ [A] Those life-loving, [B] beautiful, broken hands.
[A] Oh, I'll stand with you [E] and marvel [C#m] at the cosmos,
pink [A] and bright. _
All the pages [E] flipping backwards.
_ [C#m] Time is [A] gone and wrong is right.
_ Like rivers running up the hills and to the sky
and down [C#m] to the _ sea.
[A] _ _
Where a merman _ with a twinkle [C#m] cast a huff can [A] heave.
_ [C#m] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ Sing [A] me a salty [E] blue song, I'll be [B] gone.
_ _ [A] With [Em] watery cheeks [B] down flowered lanes,
[C#m] tattered sails [A] on a [E] ramshackle ship, [B] I'll go pale. _
[A] Staring straight [E] in the face, [B] looming,
pampers waves, [A] otherwise I'll [E] wither or die here.
[C#m] On this reach of [A] rubble rambling, _
with two ears filled up [E] with sand here,
[C#m] and a broken gaze [A] I'll be scrambling. _
_ _ [C#m] Rivers running up the hills and to the sky
and down to the sea.
[A] _ _ _
Where a merman _ with a twinkle [C#m] cast a boo-hoo, [A] ha [C#m]
-ha [C#]-ha.
Ha _ [A] _ [C#m]-ha-ha, boo-hoo, [A] ha [E]
-ha-ha.
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] Boo-hoo, [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] ha [C#m]-ha-ha, boo-hoo.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#m] Summer sky _ [A] falling into [E] the sea, taking [B] part of me.
[A] See the bones [E] on the sand of [B] the light.
[C#m] All the _ herds [A] of the sea [E] rushing by, [B] pain in mind.
Do [A] the dancing [E] reflections [B] gone wild?
[A] And at night a fractured [E] star fell [C#m] and pierced
right through [A] the thick of me.
I cried out [F#m] in pain [E] and joy, yes, [C#m] I'm not dead, not numb,
[A] not withering.
_ Like a [C#m] fallen leaf who keeps her green,
I'm turning bright in the sea.
_ [A] _ _
Where a merman with a twinkle cast [C#m] a boo _ [A]-hoo, _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] ha [C#m]-ha-ha.
Boo-hoo, [A] ha [E]
-ha-ha, _ _ _ boo _ [C#m] _ _ -hoo.
[A] _ _ [C#m] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [C#m] _
_ _ _ _ [A] Ha _ [E]
-ha [B]-ha, _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [C#m] boo-hoo, [A] ha-ha-ha.
Boo-hoo, ha [E]
-ha [C#]-ha, _ _ [A] _ boo [C#m] _ -hoo.
Boo [A]-hoo, ha [C#m]
-ha-ha.
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _