Puppet Strings

[Verse 1]

Dancing to a rhythm that we didn't choose

Reading from a script we never got to use

Cameras keep us honest, screens show us the way

Tell us what to think about and what we ought to say

Politicians smiling with their practiced charm

Promise they'll protect us, promise they won't harm

But the hands that pull their strings hide far from sight

Making all the moves in broad daylight

[Chorus]

We're all on puppet strings

Dancing to the master's call

Never seeing who's behind the curtain

Controlling it all

Pull the left, pull the right

Keep us fighting through the night

While they laugh at puppet strings

[Verse 2]

Headlines sell the stories that they want us to believe

Engineering anger, teaching us to grieve

For the things that matter to the ones who own the stage

While we read our lines and play our parts with rage

Social media prophets preaching to the choir

Every click and share just feeds the funeral pyre

Of the truth that once was sacred, now it's just a game

Where the winners write the rules and we're to blame

[Chorus]

We're all on puppet strings

Dancing to the master's call

Never seeing who's behind the curtain

Controlling it all

Pull the left, pull the right

Keep us fighting through the night

While they laugh at puppet strings

[Bridge]

Cut the strings... cut the strings...

But who holds the scissors?

Cut the strings... cut the strings...

Who teaches the puppets to walk?

[Final Chorus]

Break free from puppet strings

Silence the master's call

Look behind the curtain

Question it all

Don't pull left, don't pull right

Think with your own mind tonight

No more puppet strings