The Wondersmith and His Sons

I am a soldier baby who works just like a slave

Sweating through the pain of digging his foxhole

That he know is just a grave

You trust me don't you baby you'd hand your life to me

Let's walk along the wire and watch the muzzles flash like lightning

Emmm ah smile safe crackers understand

Is rendering this steady hand obsolete

You thought you caught my sleight of hand

But you could never understand no not me

Father was a charming man with much hidden up his sleeve

I wonder if this is what he planned

When he taught his tricks to me

The youngest was a clever boy cracking calculus by three

The eldest was impractical and obsessively clean

Then methere was

I was born a charming man with silver tongue pearl teeth

This's never how it's s'posed to end

We were promised all we'd dream

The envy of the everyman our family seemed complete

Our father was a charming man our mother a sirene

But now I'm on the run again this hotel's home to me

They found the other skeleton face down in the stream

The youngest was still tucked in bed

That way they thought he was asleep

They moved the mirror from his mouth

The fog that should remain was not to be seen

Not to be seen

I am the doctor darling who used to operate

But I couldn't stand the pain of healing

Only t'watch another woman waste away

You trust me don't you baby

Yeah you'd hand your life to me let's set this barn on fire

And watch the flames eat up the roof beams

A smile safe crackers understand is rendering this steady hand

Obsolete you thought I must have broken in

But there's no crime in coming in they hand me the key

Floating on the wind again on the tail of my quarry

On a woman weak for charming men who's holding what I need

She'll leave her window cracked for me

And I'll draft in like a breeze

My father was a charming man and I learned it all from he

The brothers born of wondersmith we started as a team

Like complimenting cogs and gears we built a head of steam

The tragic flaw of charming men is exactly as it seems

Too much grease can break down a machine

Pour another round on me pour another round on me

You know I'm good for it you know me

You know I'm good for it you know my family

I am a lover lady who sees just what you dream

I know you're going crazy living with him an' without me

You trust me don't you baby

Yeah you'd hand your life to me let's leave this life tonight

And race the sunrise down the highway

A smile safe crackers understand

Is rendering this steady hand obsolete

The charm and confidence of men

Can jam the bullets in your gun and stop heartbeats