Shiner (The Cape)

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 won't bother you for nothing anymore
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer
I will bother you no longer