(Ian Hunter)
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No puppet, no liar, won't bend my lips to wire - No
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Don't pressurize me so
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Don't gamble, with my life, or you won't live to do it twice
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Oh take some good advice from me
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And let the wires rock
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All dressed in black so nobody sees you
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Smile in the wings, tell me I please you
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Call me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke me
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And you're like a giraffe, the performance is poor
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Watch the audience laugh as my head hits the floor
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When I'm broken in half you still reach for the floor
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STOP!
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I've had enough of this
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The pantomime's reversed
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I need -you feed
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I greed - you bleed
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Marionette - I ain't one yet
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Teacher's pet - Well you'd better forget it
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Marionette - I ain't one yet
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Teacher's pet - Go check your stocks and shares
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And when the coffin comes make sure there's room for two
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You lied - I led
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I died -You're dead
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Marionette - I ain't one yet
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Teacher's pet - You'd better forget it
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Marionette - I ain't one yet
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Teacher's pet - go check your product
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A traitor, deceiver, a groovy disbeliever I thought
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A puppet was a thing cheap-taught - No way
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Creator, conceiver, romantic love receiver - caught
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"Who are you"
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"The nerve"
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I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get
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out, AHHHHH!
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Oh he wanna play chords to the chick on the street
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He wanna play words to a world that don't speak
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He wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talk
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He wanna play a riff to the man with the wires
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He wanna play lead but his hand's getting tired
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He just wanna play but don't know how to say - STOP
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OK, the show's been fun
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But my wood's begun to warp
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They won -I'm done
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New one - begun
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Marionette - I did my best
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Teacher's pet - It just couldn't last
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Marionette - Get me out of this mess
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Teacher's little pet - It happened so fast
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Marionette - Now I need a rest
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Teacher's pet - Where's my sanity gone - Mother?
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Marionette - I did my best
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Teacher's little pet - I'm just like all the others
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They gambled, with my life
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and now I've lost my will to fight
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Oh God these wires are so tight....
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I'm just a marionette.
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Marionette
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Mott the Hoople |