Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Year of the Tiger, artist - Fucked Up.
Date of issue: 05.02.2012
Song language: English
Year of the Tiger |
Bristled by a peaceful air |
Wound up by the soft wind that berates his hair |
He’ll sharpen his teeth on the sky |
A fire passes through a tiger’s eye |
As long as his days are old |
As old as his tail is white |
As white as his stripes are black |
As black as the ghosts that sulk through the night |
He’ll take you before you can see |
Him strike like thunder before lightning |
Goes the tiger burning through the night |
Tear into the empty world |
Howl back at the sound of the void |
As tame as the wildest dream |
As soft as the loudest scream |
Two eyes blink like stars in the dark |
A shudder of light that you drink and are marked |
The fear drips like blood from his teeth |
The fear drips like blood from his teeth |
Beneath him just violent thoughts |
Streaks of memories, prey he forgot |
His castle of gristle and bone |
The king sits on his throne afraid and alone |
Between the earth and the sky |
A struggle on both sides |
The tiger lives afraid as the tiger dies |
Chasing shadows across the sun |
Streaks of light he can’t outrun |
Cut through the darkness like the shot from the hunter’s gun |
Stalking a naked terrain |
At the top of his barren chain |
No one left to remember his name |
So he kills again |
Lash out at the unknown |
Rank that is grown on the bone |
A company of order and flesh |
His foul caress |
He rips the sun right out of the sky |
Clawing tears in the haze as the dark fills his eyes |
Blind to a merciless god |
Smothered by the facade |
He’ll take you before you can see |
Him strike like thunder before lightning |
Goes the tiger burning through the night |
The king of the shortest stick |
The beast above with one last trick |
Sovereign of his defeat |
In the end it was bittersweet |
Prostrate in a royal cower |
The cat is a mouse to the eyes in the tower |
His blood falls from the highest plateau |
Above as it is below |
It takes him before he can see |
Pulls his shadow away right from under his feet |
Now the darkness is a part of the light |
As the tiger goes, burning in the night |
Between the earth and the sky |
A struggle on both sides |
The tiger lives afraid as the tiger dies |
Chasing shadows across the sun |
Streaks of light he can’t outrun |
Cut through the darkness like the shot from a hunter’s gun |
Who is the beast |
And who are the spoils? |
Who makes the trees |
Grow up from the soil? |
And charges the sky |
With imperious fire |
Brutes in the dark |
Afraid of the sire… |
Who is this beautiful beast |
A tear of light on his teeth |
A fearful smile on his face |
Tokens of blood leave a trace |
Whimper and bowed to the ground |
A scornful sun bearing down |
Grimace and howl through the pain |
Get up, get shot down again |
Light drips like paint from heaven |
A shining pall on the horizon |
Life weeps away from his frame |
Stretched to the bone by the flame |
Corrupt the stripes on his back |
And burn the white into black |
Iron imprisons his rage |
Violent stains colour a cage |
So filled with sorrow |
So filled with hate |
Otherwise empty |
A relic of grace |
Shot like an arrow |
His fateful arc |
He’ll charge until |
He’s lost in the dark |
Bring down the father |
Who brought down the son |
A blinding madness |
He won’t overcome |
Strike out in anger |
Eclipsed by fear |
His last breath wasted |
The end is near… |
Remember life as a king |
The coil of life in the spring |
The silver stare of the stars |
Before the snare of the bars |
That deathly coddle of light |
Cut through the space of the night |
So say goodbye grandfather |
The body spent to confer |
As the flesh kisses the earth |
His stripes dissolve to give birth |
To the beasts in the sky |
That ride the tiger tonight… |
Between the earth and the sun |
A struggle on both sides |
The tiger lives afraid as the tiger dies |
Chasing shadows across the sky |
Streaks of light he can’t outrun |
Cut through the darkness like the shot from a hunter’s gun |