Answer:
Turn us on our backs and open up our stomachs you will be the wisest of men though at start a lummox.
My first is a creature whose breeding is unclear. My second, a price you must pay. My whole can be found in the river of Time and refers to events of today.
My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go, I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say.
I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back. None suffer to have me, but do from my lack.
Scythe of darkness, Shadow’s light. Guiding eye of thirteenth sight.
You use it between your head and your toes, the more it works the thinner it grows.