You Happy Puppet
[ music: Robert Buck/words: Natalie Merchant ]
How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string?
How did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery?
Tell me something, if the world is so insane,
is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head?
How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string?
How do you manage to live inside this tiny stage you can't leave?
Tell me something, if the world is so insane,
is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head?
A dullard strung on the wire.
When the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless.
How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string?
How do you manage to speak, your mouth a frozen grin?
A dullard strung on the wire.
When the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless.
Tell me something, if the world is so insane,
is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your empty wooden head?
Your hollow head, your marble eyes, your wooden hands and your metal jaw pins
all wait in limbo for the man who knows how to move you this way.
Gathering Speed
A plague was created
The cure is in my mind
Solitude is all I see
Powerful nations repress feeling
Buried beneath the fear
Making you a coward
Buying your safety
Grey shadows fill your head
Stealing your last breath
Scared of the future
Prophecies of chaos
Subtraction of personality
Within the human race
You'll always be
Green castles from the past
Bleeding in sands of war
No man is immortal
History is no more
Confused leaders behind our backs
Stifling our ideas
Misunderstand signs of progr