I don't know why, but this song can be about so many things... all I know is that when I read it Bush and Tony Blair pop into my head.
There is one thing I hate about it... its the way the lyrics mock me, the way they know I'll never be able to write something as good as they are.
YOU HAPPY PUPPET
Natalie Merchant / Christian Burial Music © 1989
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 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 woodenhead?
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.
Natalie Merchant is very good.
