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PAPER TIGERS

The hardest part
About a step
Is always the looking back

One foot left in the mire
Of what once had been
Peace, come to me tonight

I would trade
All I’ve built
To be free from this

Caught up in the grips
Of shadowed fear
I can’t dismiss
There must be more than this

They’re just paper tigers
The myth and the idol
No prayers to these
Oh, the pseudo ones

Just look in the eye
Tear the fangs from the pyre

It’s nothing
We ain’t seen before
How many ticking clocks
Will it take
Til I hear your voice

Ever patient in the fire
But the flames
Have got to end

Oh, light please
Take me in

They’re just paper tigers
The myth and the idol
No prayers to these
Oh, the pseudo ones

Just look in the eye
Tear the fangs from the pyre

It’s nothing
We ain’t seen before

Oh, it’s blackened skies
But starry nights

The way the pieces never fit
But it still felt right

Take my hand
To the light

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from Les Reveries of Une Jeune Noire, released July 22, 2014

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