Ride The Tiger

Yo La Tengo Ride The Tiger Lyrics
1.The Way Some People Die

Lyricist:Dave Scramm

It wasn't it more than a minute that first one was the test
He was listening but I don't think he heard the rest
It was easy to fall but not easy to take a stand
With the sound of her voice or the touch of her hand

Everyone's heard the reasons why
A kid would let the poison creep inside
He said he wasn't scared but you know he lied
The way some people die

He doesn't think of tomorrow and he seldom looks back
When he did he saw failure and a future so black
So he sees himself through sad eyes
That have never caught the look of love
He'll never see what he's giving up

Everyone's heard the reasons why
A kid would let the poison creep inside
He said he wasn't scared but you know he lied
The way some people die

You might think he's a victim, he just thinks it's a guess
It's not the question
It's who you ask and the boats fly on Friday
And you're never gonna see him again
It wasn't love that did him in

Everyone's heard the reasons why
A kid would let the poison creep inside
He said he wasn't scared but you know he lied
The way some people die


2.The Evil That Men Do

Lyricist:Johnny Bond

It's a lot of time
It's a lot of time
For a man who walks on me
For a man who walks on me

That's the way it is
That's the way it is

When a man walks on me
When a man walks on me
When a man walks on me
When a man walks on me
When a man walks on me
When a man walks on me
When a man walks on me


3.The Cone Of Silence

When I think about he and she
It's far away enough for me to see
I think about you and me with a little more frequency
but aside from that it's about the same.
Just like the F train, you're not waiting
Just like the F Train, there'll always be an F Train. No, not
the F Train--I don't know just why--
there must be a reason why.
Sometimes I think about how I live
not at all how I used to live
I was put that way and don't feel bad.
But when you act like you never care
why do you think I was there?
I look around, I think that I was had.
Just like the F Train, you're not waiting
Just like the F Train, there'll always be an F Train
I'm like the F Train, but I don't know just why
there must be a reason why


4.Big Sky

Big sky looked down on, all the people looking up at the big sky
Everybody pushing one another around
Big sky feels sad when he sees the children scream and cry
But the big sky's too big to let it get him down

Big sky too big to cry
Big sky to high to see
People like you and me

One day we will be free, we won't care, just you see
Till that day can be, don't let it get you down
When I feel that the world is too much for me
I think of the big sky and nothing matter much to me

Big sky looked down on all the people who think they got
problems
they get depressed and they hold their head in their hands and
cry
People lift up their hands and they look up to the big sky
but big sky is too big to sympathize

Big sky's too occupied
though he would like to try
and he feels bad inside
big sky's too big to cry

One day well be free. we won't care, just you wait and see
till that day can't be, don't let it get you down
when I feel that the world is too much for me
I think of the big sky and nothing matters much to me


5.The Forest Green


6.The Pain Of Pain


7.The Empty Pool


8.Alrock's Bells

Why am I wary?


9.Five Years


10.Screaming Dead Balloons


11.Living In The Country


12.The River Of Water

In the time that remains the stars will fade
Doesn't take what's wrong and make it right
It doesn't change what's come before

A lot of people want to turn their heads
And wave a flag and claim a moral fight
When there's nothing right about it
One of the little lies of time

Just because you're after all the men
Doesn't take what's wrong and make it right
It doesn't change what's come before

A lot of people want to clear their head
Or beat a drum and hold your head up high
When there's nothing right about it
One of the little lies of time

A freighter goes to shore
Puts a weighted line, the sun goes down
And all this dirt, it turns to black

A restless sleeper sticks his head outside
And sees the light, and feels it come inside
But he doesn't recognize
It's my kind of little lie and my tastes hold in the middle of
the night
My kind of little lie and I know all the pretenders
My kind of little lying time
Lying time
A lying time
A lying time


13.A House Is Not A Motel

At my house I have got no shackles
You can come and see if you want to
In the walls youll see the mantles
Where the light shines dim all around you
And the streets are paved with gold and if
Someone asks you, you can call my name

You're just a thought that someone
Somewhere, somehow feels you should be here
And it's so for real to see you
To smell, to touch, to know where you are here
And the streets are paved with gold and if
Someone asks you, you can call my name
You can call my name
I hear you calling my name!

By the time that I'm through singing
The bells from the schools of walls will be ringing
More confusions, blood transfusions
The news today will be the movies for tomorrow
And the waters turned to blood, and if
You don't think so
Go turn on your tub
And it's mixed with mud
Youll see it turn to gray
And you can call my name
I hear you calling my name


14.Crispy Duck


15.Closing Time