My mum and I we live alone
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A great apartment is our home
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In Fairhome Towers
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I have to keep me company
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Two dogs, a cat, a parakeet
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Some plants and flowers
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I help my mother with the chores
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I wash, she dries, I do the floors
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We work together
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I shop and cook and sew a bit
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Though mum does too I must admit
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I do it better
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At night I work in a strange bar
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Impersonating every star
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I'm quite deceiving
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The customers come in with doubt
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And wonder what I'm all about
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But leave believing
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I do a very special show
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Where I am nude from head to toe
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After stripteasing
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Each night the men look so surprised
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I change my sex before their eyes
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Tell me if you can
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What makes a man a man
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At 3 o'clock or so I meet
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With friends to have a bite to eat
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And conversation
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We love to empty out our hearts
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With every subject from the arts
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To liberation
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We love to pull apart someone
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And spread some gossip just for fun
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Or start a rumour
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We let our hair down, so to speak
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And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek
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And inside humour
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So many times we have to pay
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For having fun and being gay
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It's not amusing
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There's always those that spoil our games
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By finding fault and calling names
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Always accusing
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They draw attention to themselves
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At the expense of someone else
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It's so confusing
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Yet they make fun of how I talk
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And imitate the way I walk
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Tell me if you can
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What makes a man a man
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My masquerade comes to an end
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And I go home to bed again
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Alone and friendless
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I close my eyes, I think of him
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I fantasise what might have been
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My dreams are endless
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We love each other but it seems
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The love is only in my dreams
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It's so one sided
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But in this life I must confess
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The search for love and hapiness
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Is unrequited
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I ask myself what I have got
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Of what I am and what I'm not
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What have I given
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The answers come from those who make
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The rules that some of us must break
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Just to keep living
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I know my life is not a crime
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I'm just a victim of my time
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I stand defenceless
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Nobody has the right to be
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The judge of what is right for me
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Tell me if you can
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What make a man a man
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Tell me if you can
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Tell me if you can
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Tell me if you can
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What makes a man a man
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What Makes A Man A Man
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| Marc Almond |
