10000 Maniacs - You Happy Puppet lyrics

[ music: robert buck/words: natalie merchant ]<br><br><br>How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? <br>How did you learn everything that comes along with slavish funnery? <br>Tell me something, if the world is so insane,<br>Is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head? <br><br>How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? <br>How do you manage to live inside this tiny stage you can't leave? <br>Tell me something, if the world is so insane,<br>Is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your nodding head? <br><br>A dullard strung on the wire.<br>When the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless.<br><br>How did they teach you to be just a happy puppet dancing on a string? <br>How do you manage to speak, your mouth a frozen grin? <br><br>A dullard strung on the wire.<br>When the master's gone you hang there with your eyes and your limbs so lifeless.<br><br>Tell me something, if the world is so insane,<br>Is it making you sane again to let another man tug at the thread that pulls up your empty wooden head? <br><br>Your hollow head, your marble eyes, your wooden hands and your metal jaw pins<br>All wait in limbo for the man who knows how to move you this way.