You're so free that's what everybody's telling me
Yet I feel I'm like an outward-bound, pushed around, refugeeSomething's wrong, got a feeling that I don't belong
As if I have come from outer space, out of place, like King KongI'm a marionette, just a marionette, pull the string
I'm a marionette, everybody's pet, just as long as I sing
I'm a marionette, see my pirouette, round and round
I'm a marionette, I'm a marionette, just a silly old clownLike a doll, like a puppet with no will at all
And somebody taught me how to talk, how to walk, how to fallCan't complain, I've got no one but myself to blame
Something's happening, I can't control, lost my hold, it's insaneI'm a marionette, just a marionette, pull the string
I'm a marionette, everybody's pet, just as long as I sing
I'm a marionette, see my pirouette, round and round
I'm a marionette, I'm a marionette, just a silly old clownLook this way, just a little smile, is what they say
You look better on the photograph if you laugh, that's okayI'm a marionette, just a marionette, pull the string
I'm a marionette, everybody's pet, just as long as I sing
I'm a marionette, see my pirouette, round and round
I'm a marionette, I'm a marionette, just a silly old clownYou're so free that's what everybody's telling me
Yet I feel I'm like an outward-bound, pushed around, refugee