Leftover Tiger

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The circus tent is empty the caravans are gone
The wizard’s laying drunk around his spells are all undone
The magic is all broken it never will be back
Times ain´t no more as they used to be in the golden ages way back

And all those good times long gone by
Hardly fill me up with rage
´Cause I’m an old, flea-bitten tiger
In a rusty, narrow cage
And all those broken dreams
They don´t fill me up with rage
´Cause I’m an old, flea-bitten tiger
Just sitting in my cage

The dancers and the jugglers they now do decent work
The lion tamer lost his whip he serves now as a clerk
And even all those crazy clowns who gave their jokes for free
They nowadays are salesmen for an insurance company

And all those wasted lives
Hardly fill me up with rage
´Cause I’m an old, flea-bitten tiger
In a rusty, narrow cage
And all those broken dreams
They don’t fill me up with rage
´Cause I’m an old, flea-bitten tiger
Just sitting in my cage

Some dreams are dying slowly but nevertheless they die
There is no paying audience left - there is no use to cry
There’s just a dirty fairground and no one left but me
An abandoned, broken roadside show with nothing else to see

And all this vanished joy
Hardly fills me up with rage
´Cause I’m an old, flea-bitten tiger
In a rusty, narrow cage
And all those broken dreams
They don’t fill me up with rage
´Cause I’m an old, flea-bitten tiger
In a rusty, narrow cage

Maybe it is the wisdom
Some say it comes with age
Or I´m just an old, flea-bitten tiger
Still sitting in my cage…

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from Wild Birds & Their Music, released January 1, 2022

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