MAMA AMA TIGER

Mama ama tiger
Ama ama tiger
Mama ama tiger
Ama ama tiger

Fur on my cloak
Claws on my tongue
I was raised on roar
Not cradle songs

I carved my shield
From my father's fear
Every stripe I earned
Cost a drop of tears

You hear that growl
Under my breath?
I learned to laugh
In the face of death

Mama ama tiger
Ama ama tiger
Blood in the river
Fire in the choir
Mama ama tiger
Ama ama tiger
I bite, I burn
I learn, I rise higher

Ship in the storm
Teeth in the foam
I called that ocean
My borrowed home

You said I'm small
I said: Just wait
I turned my heart
Into sharpened fate

We don't back down
We don't get tamed
Every scar we share
Is another name

Mama ama tiger
Ama ama tiger
Blood in the river
Fire in the choir

Mama ama tiger
Ama ama tiger
I bite, I burn
I learn, I rise higher