Cast A Hook Lyrics

Cast A Hook lyrics

Breathe life to the street from the mouth

Those ruby red lips have much to give

Pull life from the land with your capable hands

Those life loving, beautiful, broken hands



Oh, I'll stand with you and marvel

At the cosmos pink and bright

All the pages flipping backwards

'Til time is gone and wrong is right



But rivers running up the hills

And to the sky and down to the sea

Where a merman with a twinkle

Casts a hook in me



Sing me a salty blue song, I'll be gone

With watery cheeks down flowered lanes

Tattered sails on a ramshackle ship, I'll go pale

Staring straight in the face looming tempest waves



Otherwise I'll wither and die here

On this reach of rubble rambling

With two years filled up with sand, dear

In a broken daze I'll be scrambling



But rivers running up the hills

And to the sky and down to the sea

Where a merman with a twinkle

Casts a hook in me



Summer sky falling into the sea, taking part of me

See the bones on the sand in the light

All the herds of the sea rushing by pay no mind

To the dancing reflections gone wild



And at night a fractured star fell

And pierced right through the thick of me

I cried out in pain and joy, yes

I'm not dead, not numb, not withering



Like a falling leaf who keeps her green

I'm turning bright in the sea

Where a merman with a twinkle

Casts a hook in me