Paper Tiger
by Beck

Album: Sea Change (2002)
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  • Just like a paper tiger
    Torn apart by idle hands
    Through the helter skelter morning
    Fix yourself while you still can
    No more ashes to ashes
    No more cinders from the sky
    Let all the laws of creation
    Tell a dead man how to die

    Oh, deserts down below us
    And storms up above
    Like a stray dog gone defective
    Like a paper tiger in the sun

    Looking through a broken diamond
    To make the past what it should be
    Through the ruins and the weather
    Capsized boats in the sea

    Oh, deserts down below us
    And storms up above
    Like a stray dog gone defective
    Like a paper tiger in the sun

    We're just holding on to nothing
    To see how long nothing lasts

    Oh, deserts down below us
    And storms up above
    Like a stray dog gone defective
    Like a paper tiger in the sun

    There's one road to the morning
    There's one road to the truth
    There's one road back to civilization
    But there's no road back to you Writer/s: Beck Hansen
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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