Hello rusty world what do you have for me today 
Hello mirror hey you recognizable stranger again
Here we go on the strings of time controlling our way
Crossing puppets walking on streets of sun and rain

Hello faces of faded dreams just like mine
Stuck in a day by day routine of hunger and bills
Smiling to the world lying we're fine crumbling inside 
Dancing with the puppeteer even when it kills

Oh it won't be freedom till the strings are cut
Oh we won't ever take off flying waiting on luck
We'll always be struggling just to breathe 
Not ever knowing how it feels to really be free
Until then it's just another puppet show
Put on by the puppeteer until we're broke 
Or until the strings are cut

Hello heart that keeps on beating refusing to give up
Hello life that keeps telling me to suck it up
Here I go telling myself everything will be fine
That it's gonna all work out in time

Oh we pull and we pull being jerked back in position
Slowly giving up losing ourselves into submission
Here we go on the strings of insanity making us ill
Dancing with the puppeteer until it kills

Oh it won't be freedom till the strings are cut
Oh we won't ever take off flying waiting on luck
We'll always be struggling just to breathe 
Not ever knowing how it feels to really be free
Until then it's just another puppet show
Put on by the puppeteer until we're broke 
Or until the strings are cut

Oh until the strings are cut
Here we go again oh
Until the strings are cut
The puppeteer's in control 
Until the strings are cut

Oh it won't be freedom till the strings are cut
Oh we won't ever take off flying waiting on luck
We'll always be struggling just to breathe 
Not ever knowing how it feels to really be free
Until then it's just another puppet show
Put on by the puppeteer until we're broke 
Or until the strings are cut