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[00:20.72]The marionetter has your number
[00:23.44]He's pulling your arms and legs
[00:25.30]Till you can't stand on your own
[00:28.90]Dragging your conscience on the stage
[00:30.71]And your heart gets rearranged
[00:33.42]You cannot tell your mentor from your Maker
[00:38.83]Look at the crowds bleeding with laughter
[00:41.69]Over the way you entertain at beck and call
[00:46.18]They don't see behind the lights
[00:48.87]Or the painted backgrounds
[00:51.65]They just like to see you fall
[00:57.90]And you don't really mind
[01:02.43]And you're just wasting time
[01:06.94]And you don't feel anything
[01:08.76]You're a boy on a string
[01:18.79]I feel the sadness like Gapetto
[01:21.58]Watching the life that he created run away
[01:26.90]Seeing the puppeteer's intrusion
[01:28.79]And holding the remains
[01:31.56]Of puppets that had rotted away
[01:36.94]One day the curtain will not open
[01:39.69](Will not open)
[01:40.59]And all of the crowds will go away
[01:43.23](Crowds will go away)
[01:45.90]Some times those strings will choke you
[01:49.66]But until that day
[01:56.09]Then you won't really mind
[02:00.57]And you're just wasting time
[02:05.19]You don't feel anything
[02:07.84]You're a boy on a string
[02:12.30]Just a boy, just a boy
[02:14.12]Just a boy, just a boy
[02:31.39]And you don't really mind
[02:36.71]And you're just wasting time
[02:41.22]You don't feel anything
[02:43.00]You're a boy on a string
[02:50.33]'Cause you don't really mind
[02:54.85]And you're just wasting time
[02:59.30]You don't feel anything
[03:01.22]You're a boy on a string
[03:05.72]Just a boy on a string
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