Tigers Will Survive - Iain Matthews

I’ll make no deal with you boy

You’re the kind to hold me down

And the way I feel I might just take a dive

Last night I had this dream, and I’ve known it all along

Believe me, only tigers can survive

The crowd was ready waiting

Will you sign your life away

Don’t tremble when they cut you like a knife

And when you’re sitting here boy

Just remember all I said

Remember, only tigers can survive

It’s a reasonable slip

When your trying to be hip

To forget where you’re going at all

Now you’re drowning alive

With the weight of your lies

When it looked like you never could fall

And I had a friend I knew once

Writing signs upon a wall

And he didn’t even notice me arrive

'Cause he’s had a lady’s loving

For as long as I recall

And he knows that only tigers can survive

And I’ll make no deal with you boy

You’re the kind to hold me down

And the way I feel I might just take a dive

Last night I had this dream, but I’ve known it all along

Believe me, only tigers can survive