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    "Puppeteer (2:18)"  Parental Advisorygenre: Alternative General
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    Story Behind the Song
    This is me doing Lou Reed, basically; it's half hommage and half parody of Mr. Reed and his, er, unique delivery.

    This song caused a bubble or two among my friends, who thought that this passage or that in the song was about them. It is hard to defend such things as a songwriter; people will project what they want to whatever you say. Plus, these same people never noticed it when I wrote a nice song based on my friendship with them; they only noticed when the connotation could be negative. People are fucked up. Or, as Pete Townshend once said, daft wankers.

    Of course, the people who are actually the target of this song are too simple-minded to recognize it.

    Vincent Truman
    November 1999

    Lyrics
    PUPPETEER

    It's not so much that you're full of shit
    It's that your shit ain't real
    For you, shit isn't something you pass
    It's something that you steal
    And you spread it all around your house
    Deck it on your walls
    Some people will stop at nothing
    Compensating for no balls
    And the one thing that I want to know right here
    Who is the puppet?
    And who's the puppeteer?

    I don't know who you're fooling
    You sure ain't fooling me
    Everything that you put out
    Right through it I see
    Are you still blaming Mommy
    For your life falling asunder
    Will you still be blaming her
    When she is six foot under?
    And the one thing that I'd like to know right here
    Who is the puppet?
    And who's the puppeteer?

    For all your fifty dollar words
    You don't seem to get much change
    Words from shit are shit my friend
    No matter how they're rearranged
    So why not make SHIT your ambition?
    Fill it in your life!
    You can get a B.S. in shit!
    You can make shit your wife!
    And the one thing that I'd like to know right here
    Who is the puppet?
    And who's the puppeteer?


    1999 (c)(p) RAZOR SPIRITS ASCAP

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