How did they teach you to be   Just a happy puppet dancing on a string?   How did you learn everything   That comes along with slavish funnery?      Tell me something, if the world is so insane   Is it making you sane again to   Let another man tug at the thread   That pulls up your nodding head?      How did they teach you to be   Just a happy puppet dancing on a string?   How do you manage to live inside   This tiny stage you can't leave?      Tell me something, if the world is so insane   Is it making you sane again to   Let another man tug at the thread   That pulls up your nodding head?      A dullard strung on the wire   When the master's gone you hang there   With your eyes and your limbs so lifeless      Tell me something, if the world is so insane   Is it making you sane again to   Let another man tug at the thread   That pulls up your nodding head?      How did they teach you to be   Just a happy puppet dancing on a string?   How do you manage to speak   Your mouth a frozen grin?      A dullard strung on the wire   When the master's gone you hang there   With your eyes and your limbs so lifeless      Tell me something, if the world is so insane   Is it making you sane again to   Let another man tug at the thread   That pulls up your empty wooden head?      Your hollow head, your marble eyes   Your wooden hands and your metal jaw pins   All wait in limbo for the man   Who knows how to move you this way