You can't feel anythingI'm having a hard time trying to figure out if this is a good or a bad thing.
You're a boy on a string
On one hand, if God is the puppeteer, guiding my every action, maybe I don't feel anything because God makes all the decisions, and doesn't take me anywhere where I would feel hurt.
But what about love? If I can't feel anything, then I obviously can't feel love. If I'm just a "boy on a string," I'm not being able to make my own decisions. I wouldn't feel joy or happiness. I would basically be lifeless.
Maybe it is good to feel, even if those feelings are of hurt or pain. At least then we are able to tell we are alive. And if we can feel hurt, then surely we will be able to feel love. And that, I think, is the greatest feeling of all.
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After reading the lyrics to the entire song, I'm pretty sure this isn't so much about God making us puppets and not letting us feel things. It says around the beginning "And you cannot tell your mentor from your maker." My interpretation of it is that some people escape from their maker and they no longer have any direction. "I feel a sadness like gapetto/Watching the life that he created run away" Thus, "They're just a boy on a string. Without God/gapetto you're just on a string. WITH God/gepetto, we have a much more fulfilling life and guidance.
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