Mouth of a Tiger

I'm worth five bucks or less

The future is down my neck

My restless soul takes stride

for across this great divide

But I won't heed its cry

won't follow its lifeline

It's time to sink or swim

sail on or anchor in

I'm funny like an aimless fool

I'm as lucky as a funeral

I've got cliches to write

I get high as a kite

My dreams force me to wake

find meaning to this duty

Find a way into the night

Grant me with a reason why

I'm sick with the TV on

it drones in the lonely dawn

I'm funny like a nameless fool

I'm not looking at a glass half full

I'm tired of the same old pace

I hate this same old day

How easily I fill this space

handed down from the same old place

I fail with the old streetlights

I bark with the dogs at night

When the moon is full and bright

it smiles in the alley's eyes

Pin me up with the stars tonight

I've been looking for a place to shine

One day it'll be my time

I'm not waiting for the bells to chime

I'll brake like a traffic jam

I'll sing like a slaughtered lamb

Upside down like an hourglass

I've been waiting for the sands to pass

But the storms keep rolling in

sharp teeth on a howling wind

I'm like a penny in a fountain

thrown from a warm and distant

palm unknown

I'm funny like an aimless fool

I'm as lucky as a funeral

Now the world seems

so clear as it disappears

in the blink of a frozen eye

in the course of an hour gone by

One day my star will rise

a new path will open wide

like the mouth of a tiger

I will swallow all my pride

I'm funny like a nameless fool

I'm not looking at a glass half full

I'm tired of the same old pace

How easily I fill this space