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Artist: Leonard Cohen
Canonical path: /leonard-cohen/puppets
Related lyric paths: 6
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Puppets
Read Puppets lyrics by Leonard Cohen on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Puppets
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German puppets burned the Jews
Jewish puppets did not choose
Puppet vultures eat the dead
Puppet corpses they are fed
Puppet winds and puppet waves
Puppet sailors in their graves
Puppet flower, puppet stem
Puppet time dismantles them
Puppet me and puppet you
Puppet German, puppet Jew
Puppet presidents command
Puppet troops to burn the land
Puppet fire, puppet flames
Feed on all the puppet names
Puppet lovers in their bliss
Turn away from all of this
Puppet reader shakes his head
Takes his puppet wife to bed
Puppet me and puppet you
Puppet German, puppet Jew
Puppet presidents command
Puppet troops to burn the land
Puppet fire, puppet flames
Feed on all the puppet names
Puppet night comes down to play
The after-act to puppet day
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Leonard Cohen performs "Puppets", and this lyric page sits inside the Leonard Cohen catalog on LyroVerse.
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