The Puppet Master

Lyrics

[Short Guitar Solo: Mike Wead] [Verse 1] Night time in Budapest So many people are waiting in line Darkness without a glow What a night to be watching a Christmas show [Chorus] What a magical mystery feeling Dancing at the end of their silvery strings Almost human in size Like children with plague in their flesh These puppets are, oh, so grotesque [Verse 2] Night time in Budapest The Puppet Theater is so dark inside Gas lamps light the stage We're watching as the curtain begins to rise [Chorus] What a magical mystery feeling Dancing at the end of their silvery strings Almost human in size Like children with plague in their flesh These puppets are, oh, so grotesque [Bridge] Ssshh, here come the puppets There is one, two, I see three puppets waiting in the wing They start to walk in line and suddenly they're all on the stage I see the Puppet Master high above on the walkway He pulls one string and up goes a leg, down goes a head He pulls one more and then he lets them all go [Guitar Solo: Andy LaRocque] [Bridge] No strings, none of them fall, no strings at all [Verse 3] I take a look at the little drummer boy, up on the stage, oh no I think he looked at me, is he alive? I get a little scared as he starts to play his drum On the skin of his hand, I see a little cut (Blood) [Guitar Solos: Mike Wead / Andy LaRocque] [Verse 4] Night time in Budapest So many things here are not what they seem But we love them all What a night to remember forevermore [Chorus] What a magical mystery feeling Dancing at the end of their silvery strings Almost human in size Like children with plague in their flesh These puppets are, oh, so grotesque [Outro] The show has come to an end The master himself is on the stage With his children, the curtain must fall And then the puppets, they are gone