Skip Scarbrough Can this world be a masquerade Are you really what we see on the outside and hidin' what what you really are on the inside Pretending
seeing just how it felt I might like changing my disguise To make you happy CHORUS Here's my formal invitation You and me go masquerading Lose ourselves
me All through the night and day My masquerade, I need you baby So stay with me tonight Masquerade, Masquerade, Masquerade, Masquerade Masquerade, Masquerade, Masquerade, Masquerade
I'm sitting here before the mirror I have the skill still to disguise my tears Then as the magic starts to fade I find myself abandoning the masquerade
you to confess your love for me A masquerade, a masquerade A masquerade, a masquerade A masquerade, a masquerade A masquerade, a masquerade We're both in this masquerade
Am I making sense? am I making time? Well I, I put it by And I can't wait to try Masquerade! The world's a stage A hundred faces for you to play Well
really happy here With this lonely game we play Looking for words to say Searching but not finding Understanding anywhere We're lost in a masquerade
"They broke an old tradition, because the new millennium rearranged a celebration they all enjoyed, yet there's a costume contest Who'd draw the ace this
they play weirdly throughout) CHORUS Masquerade! Paper faces on parade . . . Masquerade! Hide your face, so the world will never find you! Masquerade! Every face a different shade . . . Masquerade
I'm not to blame Welcome to the masquerade I'm not ashamed I'm not afraid I'm not okay Welcome to the masquerade Welcome to the masquerade Welcome to the masquerade
a masquerade Paid for your billboard slots You're a masquerade Because the block knows hot You're a masquerade You're livin in a uh You're livin in a masquerade
Your pride (bloodstained mask) is a fucking lie, here it will be denied as I've watched you... fail I will give you the gift of guilt when you have failure
(Steve Howe) (Instrumental)
? All through the night and day My masquerade, I need you, baby So stay with me tonight Masquerade, masquerade Masquerade, masquerade Masquerade, masquerade Masquerade, masquerade
(instrumental)
yeah Whole world is a masquerade Everybody, everybody wears another face Whole world is a masquerade Everybody, everybody wears another face Just like a masquerade Just like a masquerade
are drifting away Your eyes don't shine like they used to shine And the thrill is gone when your lips meet mine I'm affraid the masquerade is over And
