Thomas Dolby - Puppet Theatre lyrics

[Chorus] 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 [Chorus] 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