No puppet, no liar, won't bend my lips to wire - No

Don't pressurize me so

Don't gamble, with my life, or you won't live to do it twice

Oh take some good advice from me

And let the wires rock



All dressed in black so nobody sees you

Smile in the wings, tell me I please you

Call me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke me



And you're like a giraffe, the performance is poor

Watch the audience laugh as my head hits the floor

When I'm broken in half you still reach for the floor

STOP!



I've had enough of this

The pantomime's reversed

I need -you feed

I greed - you bleed



Marionette - I ain't one yet

Teacher's pet - Well you'd better forget it

Marionette - I ain't one yet

Teacher's pet - Go check your stocks and shares



And when the coffin comes make sure there's room for two



You lied - I led

I died -You're dead



Marionette - I ain't one yet

Teacher's pet - You'd better forget it

Marionette - I ain't one yet

Teacher's pet - go check your product



A traitor, deceiver, a groovy disbeliever I thought

A puppet was a thing cheap-taught - No way

Creator, conceiver, romantic love receiver - caught



"Who are you"

"The nerve"

"I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I

wanna get out,

AHHHHH!



Oh he wanna play chords to the chick on the street

He wanna play words to a world that don't speak

He wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talk



He wanna play a riff to the man with the wires

He wanna play lead but his hand's getting tired

He just wanna play but don't know how to say - STOP



OK, the show's been fun

But my wood's begun to warp

They won -I'm done

New one - begun



Marionette - I did my best

Teacher's pet - It just couldn't last

Marionette - Get me out of this mess

Teacher's little pet - It happened so fast

Marionette - Now I need a rest

Teacher's pet - Where's my sanity gone - Mother?

Marionette - I did my best

Teacher's little pet - I'm just like all the others



They gambled, with my life

and now I've lost my will to fight

Oh God these wires are so tight....

I'm just a marionette