[Emotion/Energy: sensual, restless, yearning, vulnerable, hopeful
Emphasize lines: “the tiger inside is awake,” “a hopeful woman can build a whole world out of you,” “something wild was left unfinished,” “every nerve in my body is remembering it’s alive”
Tempo: medium-slow]
Verse 1
Three years keeping watch fires
Buried underneath the rain
Three years teaching hungry parts
How to sit and how to wait
Then a voice came through the darkness
Soft as Tennessee in June
And before I ever touched him
I was dancing to the tune
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Verse 2
He talked about tomorrow
Like it already belonged
Winding roads and motorcycles
And all the places we’d gone
I could see it in my mind
Like a movie rolling through
Funny how a hopeful woman
Can build a whole world out of you
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Chorus
Now the tiger inside is awake
And she’s pacing the floor tonight
She ain’t asking for forever
She ain’t asking for a fight
She just remembers what it feels like
To be wanted, body and soul
And the tiger inside is awake
Lord, she’s hard to control
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Verse 3
Then the message came one morning
Saying life got in the way
Too much going on right now
Maybe some other day
And I answered kind and gracious
Like a woman ought to do
But something wild was left unfinished
When the door closed on the view
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Chorus
Now the tiger inside is awake
And she’s pacing the floor tonight
She ain’t asking for forever
She ain’t asking for a fight
She just remembers what it feels like
To be wanted, body and soul
And the tiger inside is awake
Lord, she’s hard to control
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Bridge
I don’t want somebody to save me
I don’t need somebody to break me
I just want somebody steady
When the wanting gets this strong
I spent years learning restraint
Years learning how to survive
Now every nerve in my body
Is remembering it’s alive
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Final Chorus
Now the tiger inside is awake
And she’s walking beside me tonight
Not a curse and not a weakness
Just a fire and a light
And maybe that’s the real miracle
After all I’ve been through
The tiger inside is awake
And she’s telling the truth
The tiger inside is awake…
And she’s telling the truth.
