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Boy on a String chords by 
Jars Of Clay
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Intro 1
G
C
Csus4
C
Csus4
Cm
Csus4
C
Cm
C
Csus4
Cm
C
Csus4
C
F
Am
F
The marionette has your num
Verse 1
G
ber
Am
F
He's pulling your arms and legs
G
'Til you can't stand on your own
Am
F
Dragging your conscience on the stage
Verse 2
G
And your heart gets rearranged
Am
F
And you cannot tell you mentor
G
Am
From you Maker
F
G
Look at the crowd bleeding with laughter
Verse 3
Am
F
Or the way you en tertain
G
at beckon call
Am
F
They don't see behind the lights
G
Or the painted background
Am
F
They just like to see you fall
G
Verse 4
C
[Chorus]
G
C
But you don't really mind
G
C
And you're just wasting time
G
You don't feel anything
C
You're a boy on a string
Verse 5
Am
G
Csus4
Cm
G
F
Am
F
I feel
G
a sadness like Gapetto
Am
Watching the life that he
F
G
created run away
Am
F
Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion
G
And holding the remains
Verse 6
Am
F
G
Of puppets that had rotted away
Am
F
G
One day the curtain will not open
Am
F
And all of the crowds will go away
G
Am
Crowds will go away (sung in
background)
F
Someday those string
Verse 7
G
s will choke you
Am
F
G
But until that day
Interlude 1
C
G
C
Verse 8
Am
[Chorus]
G
C
G
C
G
C
Just a boy
Am
G
C
Cm
C
Csus4
C
Just a boy
G
C
G
C
Am
G
C
G
C
Just a boy
Am
G
C
G
C
Am
G
C
G
C
Just a boy
Am
G
Verse 9
C
[Chorus: x2] Just a
Cm
F
boy on a string
Outro 1
Cm
C
Csus4
Cm
C
F
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