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 woodworm 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      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, okay, 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