You Happy Puppet [LP Version] lyrics

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

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 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

• Artist:10,000 Maniacs
• Album:Blind Man's Zoo