INTRO: A5 C5 G5 (x5) 
 

VERSE 1: 
A5       C5              G5 
The marionette has your number 
               A5                     C5                   G5 
It pullin your arms and legs till you can't stand on your own 
              A5                C5             G5 
Dragging your conscience on the stage and you heart gets rearranged 
        A5               C5                G5 
And you cannot tell your mentor from your maker 
A5          C5                    G5 
Look at the crowds bleeding with laughter 
         A5           C5              G5 
Over the way you entertain at beckon call 
           A5             C5      G5 
They don't see behind the lights or the painted background 
A5             C5          G5 
They just like to see you fall 
 
CHORUS: 
C5 A5        C5            G5 
    But you don't really mind 
C5 A5             C5            G5 
    Cause you're just wasting time 
C5 A5          C5       G5 
    You can't feel anything 
           C5   A5 C5 G5 
    Just a boy on a string 
 
VERSE 2: 
A5       C5            G5 
I feel a sadness like Gapetto 
             A5           C5            G5 
Watching the life that he created run away, 
           A5            C5           G5 
Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion and holding the remains 
   A5               C5       G5 
Of puppets that had rotted away 
A5          C5                G5 
One day the curtain will not open 
               A5          C5   G5 
And all of the crowds will go away 
A5            C5            G5 
Someday those strings will choke you 
A5    C5        G5 
But until that day 
 
CHORUS