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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.
BbSerpent tails and Gmflying fish
CmSup up all the D#wishes
That you Bbsent to the starsGm  Cm  D#  
BbChinese dragons Gmincandescent
Cmmirrors in the waves
D#I want to Bbput them in jarsGm  Cm  D#  
Chorus.
With my-y-y BbsaltGmbreakers
(Cmringing all the underwater, D#underwater, underwater bells)
BbSaltGmbreakers
(Cmlook inside a space, D#look inside a space and you can tell)
BbSaltGmbreakers
(Cmwhat you need to sow, D#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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Saltbreakers

by Laura Veirs

Lyrics & chords · Original key

Chords in this song · guitar

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

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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