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.