Here comes your drunken marionette

Dragging his mess of threads

There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs

And he says who will ignore me when you're gone? Now come on lift me up

Well, I wanna dance by your tin cup

You're tower of beauty with a split in your tongue

Who will ignore me when you're gone?

He says who will ignore me when you're gone? Here he comes, here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

That wouldn't ever part

With the drunken marionette Been mainlining bad thoughts

Been drinking things, I wish, I'd not

Intoxicated with sad songs

Who will forgive you when I'm gone? They sing 'Auld Lang Syne'

And I've got mutiny on my mind

A guilty conscience means at least you've got one

Who will forgive you when I'm gone?

He says who will forgive you when I'm gone? Here he comes, here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

That wouldn't ever part

He's waiting on a spark

That hasn't happened yet

For the drunken marionette Now carry on

And turn the lights low when you go

And in the hours left

I hope you feel the things that I know, I won't What you give is what you get

These days I'm worried 'bout your debts

Who carries evil out, evil will come

Who will defend you when I'm gone?

He says who will defend you when I'm gone? Here he comes, here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

Wouldn't ever part

He's waiting on a spark

That hasn't happened yet Now here he comes, here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

That wouldn't ever part

He's waiting on a spark

That hasn't happened yet

For the drunken marionette