Hanging Marionette

The stripes on fire

These hands are tired

Making plans to drink away

All these words I can't escape

I have to try to make you stay

Cause I'm alone

Stay with me this time

Stay with me this time

Cause what I'm feeling inside

I'm troubled or maybe I'm blind

But I just can't see

How this is helping me

The stars are burning bright

Like the light that lights your eyes

Why couldn't I see

That you were leaving'

Cause I'm alone

I need someone, someone to be my friend

But I can't take anyone

Who can't stay until the end

Cause I'm alone

Stay with me this time

Stay with me this time

And the stars are burning bright

The smoke is rising high

The stripes are on the stream

From the mountain to the sea

But friend you've done me wrong

Left the spoils to the strong

And prey upon the weak

There's an end to you and me

Because a friend can understand

That there's no trust to be had

You're just bouncing off the streams

A puppet on a screen

I'm not sure when you left

But it started with that theft

It seems it's been so long