Marionette

Marionette - Mott The Hoople

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

I ain't one yet

Well you'd better forget it

I ain't one yet

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

I ain't one yet

You'd better forget it

I ain't one yet

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

I did my best

It just couldn't last

Get me out of this mess

It happened so fast

Now I need a rest

Where's my sanity gone Mother

I did my best

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