Boy on a String chords by
Jars Of Clay

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Key: G major

Intro 1

Csus4

The marionette has your num

Verse 1

ber

He's pulling your arms and legs

'Til you can't stand on your own

Dragging your conscience on the stage

Verse 2

And your heart gets rearranged

And you cannot tell you mentor

From you Maker

Look at the crowd bleeding with laughter

Verse 3
Am Am 
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F F 
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Or the way you en tertain
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at beckon call
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F F 
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They don't see behind the lights
G G 
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Or the painted background
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F F 
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They just like to see you fall
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Verse 4
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C C 
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But you don't really mind
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C C 
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And you're just wasting time
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You don't feel anything
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You're a boy on a string

Verse 5
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G G 
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Csus4 Csus4 
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Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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F F 
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Am Am 
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F F 
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I  feel
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a sadness like Gapetto
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Watching the life that he
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G G 
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created run away
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F F 
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Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion
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And holding the remains

Verse 6
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F F 
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G G 
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Of puppets that had rotted away
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One day the curtain will not open
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F F 
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And all of the crowds will go away
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Am Am 
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Crowds will go away (sung in
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Someday those string

Verse 7

s will choke you

But until that day

Interlude 1

Verse 8
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G G 
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C C 
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Just a boy
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Cm Cm 3
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C C 
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Csus4 Csus4 
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Just a boy
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Am Am 
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Just a boy
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Just a boy
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Verse 9

[Chorus: x2] Just a

boy on a string

Outro 1

Csus4

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