"You're so free", that's what everybody's telling me
Yet I feel I'm like an outward-bound, pushed around, refugee
Something's wrong, got a feeling that I don't belong
As if I had come from outer space, out of place, like King Kong
I'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 clown Like a doll, like a puppet with no will at all
And somebody told me how to talk,
how to walk, how to fall Can't complain,
I've got no-one but myself to blame
Something's happening I can't control, lost my hold, is it safe?
I'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 clown
"Look this way, just a little smile", is what they say
"You look better on the photograph if you laugh,
that's okay" I'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 clown
"You're so free", that's what everybody's telling me
Yet I feel I'm like an outward-bound, pushed around, refugee