Shiner (The Cape)

Music: Jotham Paul-Ebhohimhen You'll be hard pressed to find a face worth its weight in golden hammers Like finding sewing swords in grass, like finding Jesus in a gunfight Don't hold your breath I've got a heavy head but it ain't shining worth a damn You won't see these eyes till your mop-headed Übermensch arrives With candy flowers in his left, and a snubnose in his right High noon knuckles pointed at the sky to shoot the stars down to your hands Storks nosebleed-diving, drowning in a pool of foolish foresight would be the worst of all my crimes And I know I think too far ahead but I live four days behind and I've gotta split the difference somehow You won't see this face until it's made of birds and planes going up and somewhere useful But I've been cooped up in this phone booth with a voice for silent film Getting dizzy while the music tries to swell I'm the candle winged man that went and promised you the sun but you can't hope to hold me to it You could fill a book with what I know in half a minute and you'd still be wasting time Don't you let me change your mind You won't hold these hands till I know them like the back of one Until the splinters fall away and make a mountain by the wayside With a line of mole men, miles wide, trading shiners to the peak In this hall of mirrors, walls tell me I'm a child But in a house of childish men, please, tell me who the hell are you? From where I'm standing you're still the biggest bastard baby in the room Till my bones can house a brain worth its wrinkled trains of thought and open Cooper's crate of cash I can't pay you off for time wasted on my ass So I won't bother you for nothing anymore I won't bother you for nothing anymore (I won't bother you for a goddamn thing) I won't bother you for nothing anymore I will bother you no longer