Franks, Michael - Tiger In The Rain Lyrics

2020: michael your music is still great , so many memories man

Michael Franks' music is the perfect music that violent offenders should be forced to listen to all day, every day. Violent crimes would decline by at least 80%... I'm sure of it.

My absolute favourite Franks song ! From those first sublime brass notes, I'm hooked. Franks just has a way with lyrics (not a surprise. He has an MA in literature.), and this one shows it. The imagery !! Add that delicious bass, and you have a musical gem ;

Beautiful lllll song!!!

One awesome artist.. overlooked by the music industry big time!! Probably the most creative songwriter ever...

So soothing.. ease my soul music. I'm thankful for him and how he delivers his style.. organic and smooth. I love this track

Good song. For old long time so good

Anyone listening in 2019?

Is the narrator (singer) supposed to be God and his spouse is Mother Nature?

Listening to my favorite music going to see him Friday

Thanks "Ram Kyo" 🌺 for this 1979 sweetie gentle jazzy "Tiger in the Rain"
💜🌺🙋‍🎼! 🎼
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_in_the_Rain

This white boy was the coolest in the 70's. I remember when i first heard this song ..I was living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I just got a job working as swtich board operator in the Sheraton hotel and the St Francis Drake hotel..Working a 555 board this was before consoles were invented..Swtich Board school were big in the 1970's PBX

Good morning Hotel operator how may I direct your call.? Or good morning Sir this is the hotel operator this is your first wake- up call..( in my sultry voice? it would drive the pilots bananas. Tee Hee! The best days of my life...With Mr.Frank's playing the lobby..I love this dude even in the 21st century..

I am a 🐅 in the rain. Mr. Franks, I have possession of the majority of your albums(vinyl). I have a pet chimp, and a baby tiger, their names r Biscuit and Lunchbox, I love them dearly🐅🐒🎼🎶🧚🎭💕🍾

💎🎡🤸‍♀️💓💓such charm🍾🍾💕🎭🧚🎶🎼🗼📯🎻🎸🎺

Wow this song has taken me back to the time of simple love songs told in a parable. Michael Franks is an unappreciated genius. Love this song and yes I still remember Lambsy.

I really like don’t how I missed him beautiful voice

Always wished the violin solo at the end lasted longer. Not disappointed though.

Thank you to the girl whose mother painted the album cover for me. Forgot your name and sorry for cheating on you!!

I'm 31 going on 32 and I listen to a LOT of good music like this.

🥂🥂🎈🤸‍♂-🎷azz is everlasting, it is "INTERNATIONALLY MAGICAL and SOPHISTICATED". 🎩's off to u Mr. Spencer. 🎷azz is overwhelming.🎸🎺🎷🤸‍♂️🎈🥂🥂🗿🔮🃏

Same actually ! Will be 32 in a few days (as of writing)

I have loved Michael Franks since I can remember. He and I are the same age and I used to go to all of his concerts when he was in the So Cal area. He's still perfuming and has up and coming concerts scheduled in 2019

My ...time, my youthful day

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Man, that outro vibe solo has got to be one of the most beautiful solos I've ever heard!!! Talk about touch my heart and soul...so damn pretty!!!

One of my favorite!

My teacher used to play this whole album in my 9th grade class.

just beautiful

Reminds of when I was young and beautiful living in NYC everything was exciting and magical and I fell in love.
We are both very much older now...
He lives in Nashville and I live on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
But this album brings me back to
That lovely time of my life.

last time ,
There is a dynamic about life ... it moves .... and it will take you with it, whether you are willing to go or not. It leaves within its wake fond memories to those that can still be a child. I too, remember when things were ‘magical’ ...... and I’m simple enough to believe they still can be.

Beautiful comment, sounds like a whole other song lyric in itself!

Great Song!🎵👍😎🦁🐯60s 70s 80s and early 90s music is cool enjoy all kinds of music. 👍

Nice song..

My ex hipped me to him!!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Reminds me of the times in my 280z

A e s t h e t i c

Nights We all remember with friends we'll never forget. Saw him perform this song at Chastain Park Atlanta, Georgia in a driviing rain with my buddy Sam. Our dates had long since walked back to the car to escape the weather and we had a blast. Two buds, great music and a lifetime moemory. Thanks Michael.

Such a beautiful song.!!!

Make me think of a beautiful girl I was dating who passed along

Awesome song👏🤩 beautiful Tiger😍

So relaxing, on a rainy day. Love Michael Frank's music.

So pleasing and relaxing....love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKW8dXBM8kM

Damn, im glad I found this on a little jazz station traveling. I was in Colombia Missouri for the week. Never changed the dial all week and found this gem along the trip. Love it.

Nice Song😄😄😄😘

Makes me reminisce those beautiful moments in the past!

Only Michael could write like this about a stray cat. Brilliance.

Just the perfect song (as we speak in toronto) it's" ice stormy" and just lounging around in my jammies.

Michael Franks is the man 4 this one facts

Eyes closed, breathing slows.

Thanks to Henri Rousseau's Painting: "Tropical Storm With A Tiger" or "Surprised" (Cover Art)
Michael got inspired and made "an imaginary song story" about "the tiger" and his super fine feline ... but the one thing ... the very one thing he's frightened of and can't explain is that "Thunder and lightning" (as portrayed in the painting). The track unfolds like some surreal lullaby with Michael's Song Whisperer voice floating over a full orchestra of strings and vibe ... a once upon a time song that can never be replicated.

Thanks for that bit of history.

Great voice love his music.

Have no favorites with Michael Franks....... there are so uniquely awesome masterpieces to me!!

Does anyone know the story behind this song?

Stray cat was scared of lightning and came up to there door which led to him being a pet. Believe this cat also died and there's a second song about him.

I love this song :-)

love this song...😍

●Michael Franks - The original MR. MELLOW!
☆Whether John Mayer will accept it or not...He got his vocal style from this original. ..No Doubt(!) in my mind!
Thanks for all 'mellow moments, Michael!'

I hear ya. And I think it's interesting because I view John Mayer as the James Taylor of the Millenials. Yet, if one thinks about it, there's not much distance between James Taylor and Michael Franks.....in my opinon

so much Michael 💕

Even during my high school days, 'til now....my kind of music.

A very relaxing song.

Is this contemporary jazz? Beautiful!!

wait4meto No

Storming this week SF bay with lightning & thunder, always brings me back to tiger & pussycat curves T*Y Michael ☆

Very Jazzy!

I think this is about how Michael got one of his cats. :)

Love this track ❤️

Love this 💚

It's all only Michael!!!

My dad used to play this album for me when I was a kid. This whole record is filled with classics.

The easiest way to bring down high blood pressure. Listen to Michael franks

Or you can watch an Eric Rohmer film.

Couldn't have said it better. The world of 1979 was a much more laid back one than today.

I'll always come here since u said that. Definitely a stress reliever

@Mitch Salawine very true.

Love this song. Takes on a new meaning now when our retriever jumps on our bed when the thunder and lightning 'she can't explain'!!

This man is out cold with songs

Drifting gently into nostalgia . . thank you Michael Franks

Marlon King I heard that my guy

This song and album was played over snd over again at a time in my life when I was young and beautiful living in NYC AND having a lovely magical life and I fell in love.

what a song makes me think far away

Probably the best outro I have heard in my life ! .... Sublime.

so true

The outro is definitely one of the most beautiful Vibe solos I have ever heard...wish it went on longer, the guy could do no wrong with where he was in feeling that solo!!!

my favorite of Michael's, or at least one of them, and one of the first I ever heard of his, in the early to mid 80's. :)

I'm 59 yrs old now, still holds a special place in my heart.

+Linda Dixon Me too

There is something really cruisey about this song. The whole album is good.
My brother was also a big influence on the music that I have listened to.

Linda, I'm 55 and I coundn't agree more. He's my favorite artist

i m 37 years old)))

I heard this song when I was only 16 yrs old, at that age it was introduce me to, my first jazz song, thanks to my brother Roger RIP.

Linda, I remember groovin' to this album on vinyl in '79. Thank you Mr. Franks & Mr. Rousseau. The years will only go by more quickly from now. Peace & Love.

Linda Dixon same here I heard it from my big brother RIP

Love the jazz love diana always and forever.will never let u go.make me think about the islands.love the the music.

tulus brought me here

made my lazy rainy even so special, thank you for posting this song. loving it

Anytime I'm down I just listen to this guy.  His music is...is... damn.... just so soul soothing you know?

Touching...

A very great song

i like this song so much

Love all your music mihael!

so lovely music

you 're cute

you 're cute

still d same after so many years.

Us tigers can only purr and growl...oh, and hunt all night.

Soothingly awsome.
Thank you dearmy M.FRANKS.
HERE AND NOW
KEEP UP.

soothing...

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Les Mas de Janas 1980...

Love this song right here.

Philippians 4:8
 
Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise, dwell on these things. 

For me it's the best song of the world !!!

Beauty.

real nice and cool music from one great artist.I just love it...thanks Michael....

Such a cool song.. So surreal and so calm. One of those rainy day/stay at home music alone with your girl with a candle light dinner.

Great artist, and my favorite piece from Michael, so beautiful, sweet, sad and very lovely. I've seen him several times in concert over the years and with this one in particular, all he does is play the guitar & sing, with l or 2 guys shaking congas in the back, and it is ssooooooo beautiful!!!! Long live the great Michael Franks from La Jolla, CA

Wow he's from my city San Diego.. the connection was destiny

I know that but only as a example you stupid piece of shit. What I'm saying is you don't see me going around saying "Im only 16 and I dont listen to the same crap my generation does"

you just did dumbass.

Yea well I'm only 16 you don't see me commenting on my age? Music is timeless regardless of age

Another dude with a king of the hill avatar :o

This song is killing me softly...

Spine chilling.... 0:00