Hanging Marionette - The Appleseed Cast

And stripes on fire, these hands are tired

I’m making plans to drink away

all these words, I can’t escape

I have to try to make you stay

Because I’m alone

stay with me this time

Because what I’m feeling inside

I’m troubled or maybe I’m blind

but I just can’t see

how this is helping me

The stars are burning bright

like the light that lights your eyes

Why couldn’t I see

that you were leaving

Because I’m alone

I need someone to be my friend

But I can’t take, anyone

who can’t stay until the end

And the stars are burning bright

the smoke is rising high

the stripes are on the street

from the mountain to the sea

Because friend you?

ve done me wrong

left the spoils to the strong

and preyed upon the weak

there’s an end to you and me

Because a friend can understand that there’s no trust to be had

You’re just bouncing on your strings

a puppet on a screen

I’m not sure when you left

but it started with that theft

it seems it’s been so long