No puppet, no liar, won't bend my lips to wire, NonDon't pressurize me sonDon't gamble, with my life, or you won't live to do it twicenOh take some good advice from menAnd let the wires rocknnAll dressed in black so nobody sees younSmile in the wings, tell me I please younCall me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke menAnd you're like a giraffe, the performance is poornWatch the audience laugh as my head hits the floornWhen I'm broken in half you still reach for the floornStop!nnI've had enough of thisnThe pantomime's reversednI need, you feednI greed, you bleednMarionette, I ain't one yetnTeacher's pet, Well you'd better forget itnMarionette, I ain't one yetnTeacher's pet, Go check your stocks and sharesnAnd when the coffin comes make sure there's room for twonYou lied, I lednI died, You're deadnMarionette, I ain't one yetnTeacher's pet, You'd better forget itnMarionette, I ain't one yetnTeacher's pet, go check your productnA traitor, deceiver, a groovy disbeliever I thoughtnA puppet was a thing cheap-taught, No waynCreator, conceiver, romantic love receiver, caughtnWho are younThe nervenI wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, InWanna get out,nAh!nnOh he wanna play chords to the chick on the streetnHe wanna play words to a world that don't speaknHe wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talknHe wanna play a riff to the man with the wiresnHe wanna play lead but his hand's getting tirednHe just wanna play but don't know how to say, stop!nnOK, the show's been funnBut my wood's begun to warpnThey won,I'm donenNew one, begunnMarionette, I did my bestnTeacher's pet, It just couldn't lastnMarionette, Get me out of this messnTeacher's little pet, It happened so fastnMarionette, Now I need a restnTeacher's pet, Where's my sanity gone, Mother?nMarionette, I did my bestnTeacher's little pet, I'm just like all the othersnThey gambled, with my lifenAnd now I've lost my will to fightnOh God these wires are so tight,nI'm just a marionette.