"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 taught 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, it's insane

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