In the year of the tiger, I won't weep and moan

Got no time for cooling heels, I've got to roam

In the year of the tiger, I'm gonna roll these bones

Gonna leave behind the heartache that I've known.

The only love I've known has slipped away

The only love I've known has gone away.

In the year of the tiger, I'm gonna stake my claim

Run a thousand miles beyond this house of pain

In the year of the tiger, I got my kin to save

And I'll be damned to see them suffer one more day.

On a cold, cruel july

We didn't know just when the pale horse would arrive

But love alone keeps us alive

When we fear we can't go on at all.

In the year of the tiger, I heard a nightmare scream

Cut above the din of every future dream

In the year of the tiger, well, you'd best believe

I am haunted by the visions that I've seen.

On a cold, cruel july

We didn't know just when the pale horse would arrive

But love alone keeps us alive

When we fear we can't go on at all

Can't go on at all.

In the year of the tiger, into an ocean grave

Threw his ashes to the wind then walked away

In the year of the tiger, I got no time to waste

A resolution to keep fighting and remain.

On a cold, cruel july

We didn't know just when the pale horse would arrive

But love alone keeps us alive

When we fear we can't go on at all

Can't go on at all.

In the year of the tiger

In the year of the tiger

In the year of the tiger

In the year of the tiger.