Tiger's Blood

You come alive in the heat, you ain't crossing state lines

Stood up like a crepe myrtle, can't be killed or denied

Throw a brick through the window, leave your mess at my door

Lord knows sooner or later it'll wash up to shore

Lord knows sooner or later it'll wash up to shore

You're laughing and smiling, drove my Jeep through the mud

And your teeth and your tongue bright red from tiger's blood

We were young for so long, seersuckers of time

Drank someone else's juice, left only the rind

Drank someone else's juice and left only the rind

And I held it like a penny I found

It might bring me something, it might weigh me down

You got every excuse but it's an eerie sound

Oh, when that siren blows, rings out all over town

Named after a city ya ain't never seen

Spellbinding copperheads banging a tambourine

And it's the kiss of death, but it's the only way out

Galloped up to a mirror, looked her right in the mouth

Galloped up to a mirror, looked her right in the mouth

I'd have skated the surface, I'd have left you alone

By now truer words spoken like blood from a stone

And it fills me with dread, but I've learned to ignore

The smell of dust, it creeps up through the cracks in the floor

Smell of dust it creeps up through the cracks in the floor

And I held it like a penny I found

It might bring me something, it might weigh me down

You got every excuse but it's an eerie sound

Oh, when that siren blows, rings out all over town

When that siren blows, rings out all over town