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."
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.
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.
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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.