Send Away the Tigers

"Send away the tigers" - phrase British comedian Tony Hancock used to refer to the idea of battling one's inner demons by getting drunk. Hancock became an alcoholic, an addiction he explained would "send away the tigers" that had been scratching at his back.

So that's what the lyrics are about, it seems.

I believe this song is about the US's involvement in the Iraq war.

this song is amazing, perfect to start up an album

The line "Little things change people's lives" is from an interview with Sid James talking about Tony Hancock. Sid is talking about the time he saw Tony in London and Tony looked terrible, Sid parked his car and tried to find Tony but he'd gone. Sid thought if he could have found him it might have chaged Tony's life.

Yep, and the line 'things just went wrong too many times' is from Hancock's suicide note, and one Richey often quoted.

this is a message to a young man in Ireland

theres no hope in the colonies , hope is emo is a fictional character from America so catch yourself a lifeline , titanic is sinking again damn those crazy irish things have gone wrong too many times , so catch yourself a slow boat to china , maybe future of world markets lies in china fixing some holes from the tiger claws , this person will be in the near future fixing all your tears will be trembling , they will feel regret stick those teeth into my back seasional beast keep them at bay , the person sees themselves as being low on the food chain cant something go right little things change people lives hostile words wouldn't fill your eyes same noise left to destroy, this person sounds like richey or reminds him of him , being hostile will not make you friends loanesome smile head full of forevers , he thinks things should last forever and has a loanesome or loathsome smile will tomorrow bring some perfection , word perfect here I think is interesting that zoo in Baghdad has been overrun , check oil price circa when albumn was released tiger claws stuck in my back , the celtic tiger claws are stuck in his back so send away the tigers because we are lonely and we are desperate , the subject is both lonely and desperate in nickys eyes so send away the tigers because they are creeping up and dangerous , not sure about this but subject matter may have been wearing a creeping death t-shirt when engaged with nicky , the subject kinda thinks that runaway ecomomies should be managed better in order to benefit the most people not just the people at the top or at least not to a disprotional degree . but funny the subject has already accepted defeat even before battle and now his tears are trembling when a man is young he is usually a revolutionary ,so here I am speaking of my revolution