Chords
Marionette

Key: F

Introduction:  F  

difficulty
intermediate |||||
 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
 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
 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
 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

 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
 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
 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!
 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
 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
 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