Intro: F
Verso 1:
F C F Bb F
No puppet, no liar, won't bend my lips to wire - No
C
Don't pressurize me so
F C F Bb F
Don't gamble, with my life, or you won't live to do it twice
C
Oh take some good advice from me
Eb
And let the wires rock
Interlude: Eb Ab Eb Ab
Verso 2:
G C
All dressed in black so nobody sees you
A D
Smile in the wings, tell me I please you
B E G C Am
Call me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke me
G C B
And you're like a giraffe, the performance is poor
A D
Watch the audience laugh as my head hits the floor
B E D
When I'm broken in half you still reach for the floor
Ponte:
D
STOP!
B
I've had enough of this
Em D Db A
The pantomime's reversed
A B
I need -you feed
E G
I greed - you bleed
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db Gb
Teacher's pet - Well you'd better forget it
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db Gb
Teacher's pet - Go check your stocks and shares
D B E A
And when the coffin comes make sure there's room for two
B
You lied - I led
E
I died -You're dead
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db Gb
Teacher's pet - You'd better forget it
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db Gb
Teacher's pet - go check your product
Interlude: F
Verso 3:
F C F Bb F
A traitor, deceiver, a groovy disbeliever I thought
C
A puppet was a thing cheap-taught - No way
F C F Bb F
Creator, conceiver, romantic love receiver - caught
Breakdown
F
"Who are you"
F Bb
"The nerve"
C
I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get
C
Out, AHHHHH!
Guitar Solo: Eb Ab Eb Ab (x2)
Verso 4:
Eb G Cm Bm
Oh he wanna play chords to the chick on the street
A D
He wanna play words to a world that don't speak
B Em D C G
He wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talk
G D G
He wanna play a riff to the man with the wires
A G
He wanna play lead but his hand's getting tired
B E D
He just wanna play but don't know how to say - STOP
Ponte:
D B
OK, the show's been fun
Em G A
But my wood's begun to warp
B
They won -I'm done
A G
New one - begun
Gb
Marionette - I did my best
Db Gb
Teacher's pet - It just couldn't last
Gb
Marionette - Get me out of this mess
Db Gb
Teacher's little pet - It happened so fast
Gb
Marionette - Now I need a rest
Db Gb
Teacher's pet - Where's my sanity gone - Mother?
Gb
Marionette - I did my best
Db Gb F
Teacher's little pet - I'm just like all the others
Outro
F C
They gambled, with my life
F Bb F
And now I've lost my will to fight
C
Oh God these wires are so tight....
Eb Ab Eb F
I'm just a marionette