Just like a paper tiger
  Torn apart by idle hands
  Through the helter skelter morning
  Fix yourself while you still can
  No more ashes to ashes
  No more cinders from the sky
  All the laws of creation
  Tell a dead man how to die
  
  O deserts down below us
  And storms up above
  Like a stray dog gone defective
  Like a paper tiger in the sun
  
  Looking through a broken diamond
  To make the past what it should be
  Through the ruins and the weather
  Capsized boats in the sea
  
  O deserts down below us
  And storms up above
  Like a stray dog gone defective
  Like a paper tiger in the sun
  
  We?Øe just holding on to nothing
  To see how long nothing lasts
  
  O deserts down below us
  And storms up above
  Like a stray dog gone defective
  Like a paper tiger in the sun