Toyah - Marionette lyrics

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Twisted strangers<br />

Have gone to war<br />

Oxygen drunk<br />

Fall bleeding to the floor<br />

Glass eyed creatures<br />

Fragmented features<br />

Piecing together<br />

Fallen warriors<br />

A revolution<br />

For the maiden queen<br />

(And I can see)<br />

Sherwood Forest<br />

Or an African scene<br />

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The Marionette<br />

She has velvet claws<br />

She pulls the strings<br />

In this city of whores<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

You say “yes”<br />

You bend, she wins<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

Pulls and pulls<br />

'Til your spirit gives in<br />

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Gruelling hot sweat<br />

In the land of a whore<br />

Oh, will this be war?<br />

Oh, will this be war?<br />

The knave and the pawn<br />

Ripen the whore<br />

With bastard sons<br />

Her brats of law<br />

The hawk and the falcon<br />

Swoop to blind their eyes<br />

The reaper, she laughs<br />

She chokes, she cries<br />

<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

You say “yes”<br />

You bend, she wins<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

Pulls and pulls<br />

'Til your spirit gives in<br />

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Foaming white horses<br />

Cracking their sinews<br />

For the Maidens of Troy<br />

The bell tower falls<br />

Pouring to the floor<br />

Whoa, love and death, <br />

A climax all in all<br />

Medieval shores and madrigals<br />

Her velvet claws <br />

Pull you with passion to her floor<br />

In the cathedral<br />

Her children sing<br />

In the cathedral<br />

The pendulum swings<br />

<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

You say “yes”<br />

You bend, she wins<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

Pulls and pulls<br />

'Til your spirit gives in<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

You say “yes”<br />

You bend, she wins<br />

The Marionette pulls the strings<br />

Pulls and pulls<br />

'Til your spirit gives in