Marionette Lyrics - Anthem - Toyah

Twisted strangers 

Have gone to war 

Oxygen drunk 

Fall bleeding to the floor 

Glass eyed creatures 

Fragmented features 

Piecing together 

Fallen warriors 

A revolution 

For the maiden queen 

(And I can see) 

Sherwood Forest 

Or an African scene 

The Marionette 

She has velvet claws 

She pulls the strings 

In this city of whores 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

You say yes 

You bend, she wins 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

Pulls and pulls 

'Til your spirit gives in 

Grueling hot sweat 

In the land of a whore 

Oh, will this be war? 

Oh, will this be war? 

The knave and the pawn 

Ripen the whore 

With bastard sons 

Her brats of law 

The hawk and the falcon 

Swoop to blind their eyes 

The reaper, she laughs 

She chokes, she cries 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

You say yes 

You bend, she wins 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

Pulls and pulls 

'Til your spirit gives in 

Foaming white horses 

Cracking their sinews 

For the Maidens of Troy 

The bell tower falls 

Pouring to the floor 

Whoa, love and death, 

A climax all in all 

Medieval shores and madrigals 

Her velvet claws 

Pull you with passion to her floor 

In the cathedral 

Her children sing 

In the cathedral 

The pendulum swings 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

You say yes 

You bend, she wins 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

Pulls and pulls 

'Til your spirit gives in 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

You say yes 

You bend, she wins 

The Marionette pulls the strings 

Pulls and pulls 

'Til your spirit gives in