[INT] -> 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
atching the life that he created run away,
          A5            C5           G5
eeing 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