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Too much makes me lazy
Not enough and it makes me crazy
Too much makes me crazy
Not enough and it makes me lazy
Time stops just for a moment
Then again it's only an instant
Time stops just for an instant
Then again it's only a moment
They always keep themselves clean
Know what I mean?
You have to face them sooner or later
These tigers made of paper
Don't pay now
You have to pay later
Confront your tigers made of paper
They always keep themselves clean
I can't shake this feeling
Something's going to happen
Not enough and it makes me crazy
Too much makes me crazy
Not enough and it makes me lazy
Then again it's only an instant
Time stops just for an instant
Then again it's only a moment
Know what I mean?
These tigers made of paper
Don't pay now
You have to pay later
Confront your tigers made of paper
I can't shake this feeling
Something's going to happen
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MercyGround is right. Here's what Mark says about it:
"During our early touring, back in the days when we had 'an agent' (gasp!!) we found ourselves, courtesy of 'Wasted Talent' down to support Killing Joke in Leicester. We arrived on time ready to sound check. KJ arrived four and a half hours late and we couldn't check until they had, very boring but no problem. That is until we started our sound check. I plugged my bass in, played a few notes to make sure everything was working and the sound guy shouted "ok, good, now guitar." I started laughing and looked at Dave and he did the same thing, struck a single chord to make sure the leads were working and we got another "great, thanks" from the sound engineer. We started shouting at them that we wanted a proper sound-check, not a line check and they told us that there just wasn't time due to the lateness of Killing Joke's arrival. Things escalated and, noticing the band at the side of the stage, drawn by the commotion, Dave and I unstrapped our guitars and ran at them. Fortunately for them their crew managed to stop us before we got to them. We told them all to fuck off and blew out the gig. Later a spokesman for the band came over and apologised and hoped we'd play the rest of the gigs with them but we told them were to go. Paper Tigers came from that basically."
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@monster36604 This may well be what they've said about the song but to me this explanation makes no sense at all when you read the lyrics.
@monster36604 This may well be what they've said about the song but to me this explanation makes no sense at all when you read the lyrics.
I think it's about heroin and they just didn't want to say so.
I think it's about heroin and they just didn't want to say so.
@monster36604
@monster36604
IDK about the heroin. A paper tiger is something that seems fierce but is powerless. If they are describing themselves in that scenario it would make sense. I always just took the lyrics, "you don't pay now you have to pay later" as being about doing what you need to do now or else it blows out of controls.
IDK about the heroin. A paper tiger is something that seems fierce but is powerless. If they are describing themselves in that scenario it would make sense. I always just took the lyrics, "you don't pay now you have to pay later" as being about doing what you need to do now or else it blows out of controls.
This one is actually about faimous bands like Killing Joke, beeing lazy and showing late for their gigs (they opened for a KJ gig once and can't stand them since then). Check the lyrics on their official website, they do explain it.
In spite of the rather trivial and non-sensical lyrics, this song is Full of feelings of sorrow and mournfulness. When I was 19(& 20) my gf at the time and I would always make love to this song. I guess it describes our relationship.