Puppet Theatre - Thomas Dolby

One more night in the puppet theater

And I’m dancing on a string

One more pawn for the puppet master

The lines are drawn the hook is in

And they used me

For a plaything

But I’m crying real tears

In an ocean of gold

We are half of a million people

And our limbs have lost control

And we play the machines a dozen at a time

The only song we know

Same old night in the puppet theater

Same old dancing on a string

One more pawn for the puppet master

Can’t take it any more, the hook is in

In the surgery of the open heart

There’s a soldier on every fader

And a madman in control

And he plays the machine for hours at a time

The only song he knows

So I wound up alone on the dance floor

And a laser hit me in the eye

I began to feel my body dissolving

Melting in a pool of light

And they need me

For a plaything

But I’m crying