I want to ride the tiger   I want to ride the tiger   It will be black and white in the dead of night   Eyes flashing in the clear moonlight   I want to ride the tiger.      It's like a tear in the hands of a western man   Tell you about salt, carbon and water   But a tear to a chinese man   He'll tell you about sadness and sorrow or the love of a man and   A woman.      I want to ride the tiger   I want to sail through the risin' sun for you and you   We got something to learn from the other side   Something to give, we got nothing to hide   I want to ride the tiger.      Black wants out of the streets   Yellow wants the country   Red wants the country back   And white wants out of this world   Sing - sing to the sky   I want to ride the tiger   I want to ride the tiger.      Look to the summer of seventy-five   All the world is gonna come alive   Do you want to ride the tiger?       It's like a tear in the hands of a western man   Tell you about salt, carbon and water   But a tear to an oriental man   He'll tell you about sadness and sorrow or the love of a man and   A woman.