The Shins - A Comet Appears (((Capo on 2nd fret))) INTRO ----- VERSE ----- One hand on this wily comet Take a drink just to give me some weight Some uberman I'd make, I'm 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 Close your eyes to corral a virtue 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 lonely is such 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 ------ Still to come the worst part and you know it there is a numbness in you heart and it's growing VERSE ----- With burnt sage and a forest of bygones I click my heels get the devils in line A list of things I could lay the blame on might give me a way out But with each turn it's this front and center Like a dart 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 CHORUS ------ Still to come the worst part and you know it there is a numbness in you heart and it's growing OUTRO (slow down on the last three chords) -----