Shadow Puppets Lyrics

The curtain falls the lights are hung a hollow hand applause is rung

The light will catch your empty stare a hurricane has combed your hair

Are you falling? Don't you need to live a while?

Silence hides a hollow feeling

The stranger is in silhouette paranoia rests its head

The staircase creeks you're not alone the silent answered telephone

Is a warning

Don't you need to live a while?

Before you hide an inner screaming

A crowd pleasing phrase a promise of something new

Just buys alternating truth fear will strike a cross within the booth

It's the one time i needed you

With shadow puppets coming home to roost

His words crash like a china plate she paints a fish on roller skates

A child's ear pressed against the door the shoes you kicked across the floor

Is it boring you? Don't you need to live a while?

Silence hides a hollow feeling

The choices that confronted them were simply Machiavellian

The Speaker's hand is far too deft the curtain draws its final breath

Is it dawning now? Don't you need to live a while?

Before you hide your inner screaming

With a crowd pleasing phrase a promise of something new

Is buying a wide eyed ruse that only digs a shallow grave of truth

It's the one time i needed you

Are shadow puppets coming home to roost?

The rabbit hole where lies begun the single bullet barrel spun

A song born from a mandolin between your thighs eternal sin

Is it morning now? Don't you need to live a while?

Silence hides a hollow feeling

The horse that bolts an unlocked gate the fifty two the forty eight

This wasn't what I voted for democracy's become a whore

Are you yawning? Don't you need to live a while?

Your silence hides an inner screaming

Premier your mind's playing tricks on you

Delusion is seeping through

The less you win the more you've got to lose

All reason is leaving you

As shadow puppets make a home to roost