Tom: C
C F G C
1. The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars,
F G C Bb D7
restless by day, and by night rants and rages at the stars.
F G C
God help the beast in me.
C F G C
2. The beast in me has had to learn to live with pain,
F G C F
and how to shelter from the rain,
G C Bb D7
and in the twinkling of an eye might have to be restrained,
F G C
God help the beast in me.
E F
Sometimes it tries to kid me that it's just a teddy bear,
C
and even somehow manage to vanish in the air,
G
and that is when I must beware of …
C F G C
3. The beast in me that everybody knows,
F G C Bb D7
they've seen him out dressed in my clothes, patently unclear,
F C
if it's New York or New Year.
F G C F G C
God help the beast in me, the beast in me.
