The Shins
A Comet Appears
Wincing the Night Away
Capo 2
v1
One hand on this wily comet
Take a drink just to give me some weight
Some uberman I would make up, barely a vapor
They shone a chlorine light on
A host of individual sins
Let's carve my aging face off
Fetch us a knife, start with my eyes,
Down so the lines form a grimacing smile
v2
Close your eyes to coral the virtues
Is this fooling anyone else
Never worked so long and hard to cement a failure
We can blow on our thumbs and posture
But the loneliest is delicate things
The wind from a wasp could blow them
Into the sea, with stones on their feet
Lost to the light and the loving we need.
chorus
Stencil carved since you've come
The worst part and you know it
There is a numbness
In your heart and its growing
v3
With burnt sage and a forest of bygones
I click my heals get the devils in line
A list of thing I could lay the blame on that give me a way out
But with each scent it is front and center
Like a dot stuck square in your eye
Every post you can hitch your faith on is
A pie in the sky, chock full of lies
A tool we devise to make sinking stones fly