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Saltbreakers Lyrics

Serpent tails and flying fish
sup up all the wishes
that you sent to the stars
Chinese dragons incandescent
mirrors in the waves
I want to put them in jars

With my-y-y saltbreakers
(ringing all the underwater, underwater, underwater bells)
saltbreakers
(look inside a space, look inside a space and you can tell)
saltbreakers
(what you need to sow, what you need to know by any means)

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

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)

bleached by the dark
oceans of clouds
rainstorms of ash
stars on the ground

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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Cover art for Saltbreakers lyrics by Laura Veirs

Great song!

This review of the album is good:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/zjqv

And states that the title means waves and is a metaphor for tears...

I would say it's about trying to get over someone:

'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'

That verse would suggest it anyway...

Cover art for Saltbreakers lyrics by Laura Veirs

This song is so great! I love how she has the male back up singers, it's cute. What does saltbreakers mean? The imagery in this song is wonderful!

Cover art for Saltbreakers lyrics by Laura Veirs

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

I always thought it was "trusty bag of herb" and this part was referencing marijuana. Eh?