Mouth of a Tiger - Sundowner

I’m worth five bucks or less

The future’s down my neck

My restless soul takes stride

Far across this great divide

I won’t heed its cry

Won’t follow its lifeline

It’s time to sink or swim

Sail alone or anchor in

I’m funny like a nameless 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 day

Burned away into the night

Grabbed me with the 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 fade with the old street lights

I bark with the dogs at night

When the moon is full and bright

It smiles in the alleys' 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 break 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 storm keeps rolling in

Sharp teeth are the howling wind

I’m like a penny in a fountain, thrown

From a woman to some poem 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 an aimless fool

I’m not looking at a glass half-full

I’m tired of the same old pace

How easily I fill this space