F

[1st Verse]
F         C          F               Bb             F
No puppet,  no liar,   won't bend my lips to wire - No
           C
Don't pressurize me so
F            C              F              Bb            F
Don't gamble,  with my life,  or you won't live to do it twice
                    C
Oh take some good advice from me
                  Eb
And let the wires rock

[Interlude]
Eb   Ab  Eb  Ab

[2nd Verse]
G                       C
All dressed in black so nobody sees you
A                   D
Smile in the wings, tell me I please you
B                  E             G           C        Am
Call me a king and watch for the wordworm to choke me
           G                         C        B
And you're like a giraffe, the performance is poor
          A                    D
Watch the audience laugh as my head hits the floor
         B                        E              D
When I'm broken in half you still reach for the floor

[Bridge]
D
STOP!
                B
I've had enough of this
         Em     D  Db  A
The pantomime's reversed
  A     B
I need -you feed
  E       G
I greed - you bleed

[Chorus]
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db                                Gb
Teacher's pet - Well you'd better forget it
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db                      Gb
Teacher's pet - Go check your stocks and shares

D               B              E                       A
And when the coffin comes make sure there's room for two
           B
You lied - I led
E
I died -You're dead

[Chorus]
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db                           Gb
Teacher's pet - You'd better forget it
Gb
Marionette - I ain't one yet
Db                 Gb
Teacher's pet - go check your product

[Interlude]
F

[3rd Verse]
F         C          F          Bb            F
A traitor,  deceiver,  a groovy disbeliever I thought
               C
A puppet was a thing cheap-taught - No way
F       C           F          Bb              F
Creator,  conceiver,  romantic love receiver - caught

[Breakdown]
F
"Who are you"
F         Bb
"The nerve"
C
I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get out, I wanna get
C
Out, AHHHHH!

[Guitar Solo]
Eb    Ab  Eb   Ab x2

[4th Verse]
Eb    G                        Cm           Bm
Oh he wanna play chords to the chick on the street
         A              D
He wanna play words to a world that don't speak
   B                     Em            D                    C    G
He wanna play people who play hide 'n' seek when they don't talk
G                               D        G
He wanna play a riff to the man with the wires
         A                        G
He wanna play lead but his hand's getting tired
   B                         E    D
He just wanna play but don't know how to say - STOP

[Bridge]
D     B
OK, the show's been fun
Em            G        A
But my wood's begun to warp
          B
They won -I'm done
A           G
New one - begun

[Chorus]
Gb
Marionette - I did my best
Db                 Gb
Teacher's pet - It just couldn't last
Gb
Marionette - Get me out of this mess
Db                                 Gb
Teacher's little pet - It happened so fast
Gb
Marionette - Now I need a rest
Db                         Gb
Teacher's pet - Where's my sanity gone - Mother?
Gb
Marionette - I did my best
Db                              Gb                F
Teacher's little pet - I'm just like all the others

[Outro]
F            C
They gambled,  with my life
F            Bb              F
And now I've lost my will to fight
             C
Oh God these wires are so tight....
           Eb          Ab   Eb   F
I'm just a marionette