The Beast In Me

Album: American Recordings (1994)
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  • The beast in me
    Is caged by frail and fragile bars
    Restless by day
    And by night rants and rages at the stars
    God help the beast in me

    The beast in me
    Has had to learn to live with pain
    And how to shelter from the rain
    And in the twinkling of an eye
    Might have to be restrained
    God help the beast in me

    Sometimes it tries to kid me
    That it's just a teddy bear
    And even somehow manage to vanish in the air
    And that is when I must beware
    Of the beast in me
    That everybody knows
    They've seen him out dressed in my clothes
    Patently unclear
    If it's New York or New Year
    God help the beast in me

    The beast in me Writer/s: NICK LOWE
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, O/B/O DistroKid, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Sampson Greiger from UsaFirst, I heard the Johnny Cash version and then the Nick Lowe version. Both are stunning in their own way. I can really relate to this song because the beast in me has caused so much pain in my life. Mostly from ignoring him until it was too late. God help the beast in all of us.
  • Seventhmist from 7th HeavenCash never performed a song that described him as well as this one did.
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