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