This is the second song I've posted from Beck's "Sea Change" album. I've never heard a more emotionally vulnerable album in my life. Often I'll hear a song on the radio with fantastic lyrics describing emotion I once thought indescribable but some how the music falls flat (maybe the singing doesn't match the lyrical emotion). In any case, this album is raw emotion and I give Beck so much credit for allowing his fans a chance to see him in his most vulnerably state. Supposedly Beck wrote this album after a nasty break up with his girlfriend of many years. I gave this album to my father telling him it was the best I've heard in years and he gave it right back saying it was too depressing. Exactly.
"Paper Tiger" by Beck
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
The deserts down below us
And the 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 should be
Through the ruins and the weather
Capsized boats in the sea
Deserts down below us
The storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun
I just hold on to nothing
And see how long nothing lasts
The deserts down below us
And the 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
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