Quit beating your chest and acting like you're gonna bite a big hole out of me
Quit messing and testing 'cause this ain't at all impressing to me

Paper tiger, paper tiger
You paper tigers are all alike
Your roar is much worse than your bite

Quit spying and sighing and lying and trying to be so mean
'cause you ain't scaring nobody, baby, you're just making a scene

Paper tiger, paper tiger
You're just a-fluttering in the trees
Ain't shaking no-one but the leaves

Oh, how you try to be so brave
Thinking that I'll run back to you and be afraid
And so you try to come on strong
Thinking that I will go along, but you're wrong

Paper tiger, paper tiger
You paper tigers are all alike
Your roar is much worse than your bite

Your roar is much worse than your bite