Mouth of a Tiger

I'm worth five bucks or less
 The future's down my neck
 My restless soul takes stride
 Far across this great divide
 I won't heed its cry
 Won't follow its lifeline
 It's time to sink or swim
 Sail alone or anchor in
 I'm funny like a nameless fool
 I'm as lucky as a funeral
 I've got cliches to write
 I get high as a kite
 My dreams force me to wake
 Find meaning to this day
 Burned away into the night
 Grabbed me with the reason why
 I'm sick with the TV on
 It drones in the lonely dawn
 I'm funny like a nameless fool
 I'm not looking at a glass half-full
 I'm tired of the same old pace
 I hate this same old day
 How easily I fill this space
 Handed down from the same old place
 I fade with the old street lights
 I bark with the dogs at night
 When the moon is full and bright
 It smiles in the alleys' eyes
 Pin me up with the stars tonight
 I've been looking for a place to shine
 One day it'll be my time
 I'm not waiting for the bells to chime
 I'll break like a traffic jam
 I'll sing like a slaughtered lamb
 Upside-down like an hourglass
 I've been waiting for the sands to pass
 But the storm keeps rolling in
 Sharp teeth are the howling wind
 I'm like a penny in a fountain, thrown
 From a woman to some poem unknown
 I'm funny like an aimless fool
 I'm as lucky as a funeral
 Now the world seems so clear
 As it disappears
 In the blink of a frozen eye
 In the course of an hour gone by
 One day my star will rise
 A new path will open wide
 Like the mouth of a tiger
 I will swallow all my pride
 I'm funny like an aimless fool
 I'm not looking at a glass half-full
 I'm tired of the same old pace
 How easily I fill this space