Breathe life to the street from the mouth
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Those ruby red lips have much to give
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Pull life from the land with your capable hands
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Those life loving beautiful broken hands
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Oh, I'll stand with you and marvel
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At the cosmos pink and bright
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All the pages flipping backwards
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Til time is gone and wrong is right
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Rivers running up the hills and to the sky and down to the sea
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Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me
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Sing me a salty blue song, I'll be gone
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With watery cheeks down flowered lanes
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Tattered sails on a ramshackle ship, I'll go pale
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Staring straight in the face looming tempest waves
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Otherwise I'll wither and die here
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On this reach of rubble rambling
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With two ears filled up with sand, dear
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In a broken daze I'll be scrambling
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Like rivers running up the hills and to the sky and down to the sea
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Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me
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Summer sky falling into the sea, taking part of me
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See the bones on the sand in the light
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All the herds of the sea rushing by, pay no mind
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To the dancing reflections gone wild
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And at night a fractured star fell
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And pierced right through the thick of me
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I cried out in pain and joy, yes
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I'm not dead, not numb, not withering
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Like a falling leaf who keeps her green
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I'm turning bright in the sea
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Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me
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Cast A Hook In Me
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Laura Veirs |