Peyote Music | Marionette

Marionette

I had heard rumors all over town

That the gypsy lady was comin’ around

So I got myself together, hey baby, and away I did go

Just to see what kind of words she might know.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, she picked me up slowly.

Oh, oh, she picked me up slow.

An’ she said, “I pray the land you’re growin’ on

Will make you well and keep you strong.

May you feel the sun. May you taste the dew.

May all God’s love rain down on you.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, but you’re movin’ too slow now.

Mm, mm, you’re movin’ so slow”.

Then she said, “I’m just one more critically wounded super star.

You know I’ve been here before and mister this time I ain’t in to goin’ that far.

Yeh, on the one hand I am what I am and I take anything I can get.

And on the other hand I’m just a cleverly engineered Marionette.”

I spent my season down in Hell

And now the doctor says I’m gonna get well.

I love you baby. That’s all I can say.

You're all that I think of in all of my days.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, but they’re movin’ too slow now.

Mm, mm, they’re movin’ so slow.

I have heard rumors all over town

You been plannin’ to put me down.

How will I keep it all together? Hey, baby tell me where will I go?

Who will I see? Yeh, whatta they know?

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, won’t you let me down slow now?

Mm, mm, yeh, let me down slow.

‘Cause I’m just one more critically wounded super star.

You know I’ve been there before and lady this time I ain’t in to goin’ that far.

On the one hand I am what I am and I take anything I can get.

And on the other hand I’m just a cleverly engineered Marionette.

Yeh, on the one hand I am what I am and I take anything I can get.

And on the other hand I’m just a cleverly engineered Marionette.

NOTES: I wrote this song in 1974 but it is about an earlier experience. Sometimes events seem to slow down to a crawl, progress stops, and still time rushes on. You feel like you are just acting a part in a play where you have no input to the plot or the script and where everything you do and say is totally controlled by the puppet master. You are just the marionette.