[Verse 1] There was a shrine my father used to visit Long before I knew what faith was for Incense curling like a little constellation Through the wooden windows and the temple doors A Golden tiger watched me from above the altar Gold eyes painted black beneath the smoke I was young enough to think the heavens Had simply left a message where we spoke And I remember asking him one morning “Does somebody up there know our names?” He smiled like a man who’d seen the answer But never needed proof to say the same [Pre-Chorus] Maybe every god is just a doorway Maybe every prayer is just a read Maybe heaven keeps no book of names Maybe it remembers what we meant [Chorus] Oh, Tiger God, keep a little light for me Somewhere past the incense, somewhere I can’t see If I disappear beneath the years and all the truth we lose Will the love I left behind still know it once was true? Oh, Tiger God, if there is a world beyond Tell me where the vanished go when all their voices are gone And if there’s nothing waiting when this mortal body sleeps Let the things we loved remain somewhere the silence keeps (Post chorus) Don’t let the world forget me Don’t let the moment erase Solace me softly afterlife… If God is only memory Then please remember me [Verse 2] My father knew the language of the offerings Coins and flowers, water, ash and flame He’d bow his head beneath the painted ceiling As if someone there had always known his myth I didn’t understand the ritual Only that he looked less frightened when he prayed As though death was not a final country Just another room somebody had made And maybe I inherited his question More than I inherited his blood What survives when every photograph is fading? What remains when even monuments turn dust? [Pre-Chorus] Maybe faith is not believing blindly Maybe doubt is holy in its own kind Maybe all the gods we’ve ever invented Were our hands reaching through the dark skyline [Chorus] Oh, Tiger God, keep a little light for me Somewhere past the incense, somewhere I can’t see If I disappear beneath the years and all the truth we lose Will the love I left behind still know it once was true? Oh, Tiger God, if there is a world beyond Tell me where the vanished go when all their voices are gone And if there’s nothing waiting when this mortal body sleeps Let the things we loved remain somewhere the silence keeps (Post chorus) Don’t let the world forget me Don’t let the moment erase Solace me softly afterlife… If God is only memory Then please remember me [Bridge] And if the universe is infinite indifferences If there is no choir behind the stars No celestial court, no promised resurrection No divine hand keeping track of who we are Would it make our love less divine Would it make the goodbye less real? Or is a human heart remembering someone The closest thing to heaven we can feel? Maybe the shrine was never asking me to believe Maybe it only taught me how to stay To kneel before the mystery And let the mystery stay Spiritually stay…. [Final Chorus] Oh, Tiger God, keep a little light for me Underneath the painted gold, beneath what no one sees If I become a stranger to the world I leave behind Will somebody find my love still breathing in the shrine? Oh, Tiger God, if heaven has a door Leave it slightly open like you’ve done a thousand times before And if there is no heaven, if the gods were only hymn Then let the love we gave each other outlive the frame Don’t let the world forget us Don’t let the years erase Don’t let the times denied us Don’t let the death shapes our soul Don’t let the world forget us Don’t let the years erase Maybe God is only memory Maybe memory is our saving grace Don’t let the world forget us Don’t let the years erase Don’t let the world forget us Don’t let the years waste Please Remember us Remember me
