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Saltbreakers

Laura Veirs

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Standard Tuning. Here's the intro, if you're interested..(only played on e and b.) E|---------10--8--6-----------8--6--1-----| B|--3s6----------------3s4----------------| Intro chords. Bb,Gm,Cm,D# Verse. Bb Gm Serpent tails and flying fish Cm D# Sup up all the wishes Bb Gm Cm D# That you sent to the stars Bb Gm Chinese dragons incandescent Cm mirrors in the waves D# Bb Gm Cm D# I want to put them in jars Chorus. Bb Gm With my-y-y saltbreakers Cm D# (ringing all the underwater, underwater, underwater bells) Bb Gm Saltbreakers Cm D# (look inside a space, look inside a space and you can tell) Bb Gm Saltbreakers Cm D# (what you need to sow, what you need to know by any means) Verse 2. You will not burn me up though I've dreamed nightly of your face and walked the streets of my life with your singing in my silent brain you cannot burn me up i'm a fallen leaf who keeps her green and don't forget I've got my trusty bag of oh-oh-oh Chorus saltbreakers (flashing in the night, crashing all around my eyes) saltbreakers (throwing me down turning on the fire flies) saltbreakers (the ebb and the flood, clearing all the channels of your heart) Bridge. (SAME CHORDS STILL) bleached by the dark oceans of clouds rainstorms of ash stars on the ground Chorus. all around my-y saltbreakers (floating like a butterfly singing like a bumblebee) saltbreakers (dashing alright, splashing and slumbering) saltbreakers (mirror to the serpentine stars)
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