Key: E major
Intro 1
G
D
G
D
G
Verse 1
D
G
How did they teach you to be
D
G
just a happy puppet dancing on a string?
D
G
How did you learn everything that comes
D
A
along with slavish funnery?
Tell me something,
Bm
A
if the world is so insane,
D
A
Bm
is it making you sane again to let another man tug at
A
D
G
the thread that pulls up your nodding head?
Verse 2
D
G
How did they teach you to be just a happy
D
G
puppet dancing on a string?
D
G
How do you manage to live inside this
D
A
tiny stage you can't leave?
Bm
A
Tell me something, if the world is so insane,
D
A
Bm
is it making you sane again to let another man tug at
A
D
G
C
Am
the thread that pulls up your nodding head?
C
A dullard
Verse 3
G
D
strung on the wire.
G
Am
G
When the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your
D
G
D
G
D
G
D
G
limbs so
D
A
Bm
A
D
A
Bm
A
lifeless.
D
Verse 4
G
D
G
How did they teach you to be just
D
G
a happy puppet dancing on a string?
D
How do you manage to speak,
G
D
your mouth a frozen grin?
Verse 5
G
Am
G
D
A dullard strung on the wire.
G
When the master's gone you hang there
D
with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless.
Verse 6
A
Tell me something,
Bm
A
if the world is so insane,
D
A
Bm
is it making you sane again to let another man tug at
A
D
the thread that pulls up your empty wooden head?
Verse 7
A
Bm
Your hollow head, your marble eyes,
A
D
your wooden hands and your metal jaw pins
A
Bm
all wait in limbo for the man who
A
D
knows how to move you this way.
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