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Puppet Strings

It's still one of my boyfiend's favorite songs of mine, and I like it a lot too, although I'm embarrassed by the "orders/borders" lines.

Somewhere a girl is trying to be alone
She unhooks the cord from the telephone
She stares at the darkness she calls her own
And turns out the light

She lives her life as if it were a race
And sometimes she tires from the pace
And it's then that the sadness returns to her face
There in the night

And the music embraces her tears
And at night she only sees with her ears
And the men of magic bring her chimera things
For the music is what moves her puppet strings

She dreams of Paris in the springtime
Romance in the moonlight, bread and cheese and wine
On a hillside, somewhere else in time
With a stranger

Long-stemmed roses, and walking in the sand
Flowers in her hair, holding to the hand
Of a tall dark guardian who keeps her from demands
That try to change her

And the music embraces her tears
And at night she only sees with her ears
And the men of magic bring her chimera things
For the music is what moves her puppet strings

Music is what moves her through this world of law and orders
Sadness is a lonely land and she's so close to the borders
The midnight song, it leads her on, she lives the radio
With just her music men to love her, for that's
What she's come to know

This girl is a butterfly, coiled in her coccoon
She tries to be a lady, but she tries too hard, too soon
She knows there's honest sorrow within life's brilliant tune
But not without joy

And the music embraces her tears
And at night she only sees with her ears
And the men of magic bring her chimera things
For the music is what moves her puppet strings