My mum and i we live alone
A great apartment is our home
In fairhome towers

I have to keep me company
Two dogs a cat a parakeet
Some plants and flowers

I help my mother with the chores
I wash she dries i do the floors
We work together

I shop and cook and sew a bit
Though mum does too i must admit
I do it better

At night i work in a strange bar
Impersonating every star
I'm quite deceiving

The customers come in with doubt
And wonder what i'm all about
But leave believing

I do a very special show
Where i am nude from head to toe
After stripteasing

Each night the men look so surprised
I change my sex before their eyes
Tell me if you can

What makes a man a man

At 3 o'clock or so i meet

With friends to have a bite to eat
And conversation
We love to empty out our hearts

With every subject from the arts
To liberation
We love to pull apart someone

And spread some gossip just for fun
Or start a rumour
We let our hair down so to speak

And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek
And inside humour
So many times we have to pay

For having fun and being gay
It's not amusing
There's always those that spoil our games

By finding fault and calling names
Always accusing
They draw attention to themselves

At the expense of someone else
It's so confusing
Yet they make fun of how i walk

And imitate the way i talk
Tell me if you can
What makes a man a man


My masquerade comes to an end
And i go home to bed again

Alone and friendless
I close my eyes i think of him
I fantasise what might have been

My dreams are endless
We love each other but it seems
The love is only in my dreams

It's so one sided
But in this life i must confess
The search for love and happiness

Is unrequited
I ask myself what have i got
Of what i am and what i'm not

What have i given
The answers come from those who make
The rules that some of us must break

Just to keep living
I know my life is not a crime
I'm just a victim of my time

I stand defenceless
Nobody has the right to be
The judge of what is right for me

Tell me if you can
What make a man a man

Tell me if you can
Tell me if you can

Tell me if you can
What makes a man a man