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