#shadow stabbing

Cake - Shadow Stabbing

Adjectives on the typewriter

He moves his words like a prize fighter

The frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell

The man on the street might just as well be

The man on the street might just as well

The man on the street might just as well be

Outside, outside the walls

Out there you don't hear the echoes and calls

But the steel eye, tight jaw

Say it all, say it all

But the white paint

Plastic saints

Say it all, say it all

Say it all, say it all, say it all, say it all

Say it all, Say it

Somebody has got to say it all

“I thumb the cool blade but I know this can't last”

This is likely the blade on the typewriter mentioned in the song. On some typewriters, the carriage return lever was called “the blade” because it was shaped like a thick dagger blade or blade of grass. You’d hook it over with your left thumb to return the carriage; i.e.; “thumb the blade.”

As for it being cool, that most carriage return levers were made out of metal alloys that were poorly thermally conductive and that they stuck out into the air column rarely being handled more than an occasional slam led to them often feeling cool to the touch.