Marionette Songtext
von Jimmy Webb

Marionette, your dress is all wet
Did someone leave you outside in the rain?
Or is it the pain that makes all the puppet tears
Roll down your cheek, or does the roof leak?


Marionette, how could you forget
I told you your bright shining varnish would peel?
And how does it feel with the bright rouge all faded
And the smile almost cracked now that you′ve come back?

Almost too late
For my hands are much stiffer than they were
When first I painted your eyes
Marionette, no you're not finished yet
I′ll mend you and make you like new
Paint your eyes blue and make you as young
As I was myself, and there on the shelf
You'll sit till the puppet man comes 'round again