What Makes A Man

Song What Makes A Man
Artist Charles Aznavour
Album Sings In English Greatest Hits

Lyrics

[00:11.23] My mum and I we live alone
[00:14.22] A great apartment is our home
[00:18.20] In Fairhome Towers
[00:23.05] I have to keep me company
[00:25.24] Two dogs, a cat, a parakeet
[00:29.20] Some plants and flowers
[00:34.03] I help my mother with the chores
[00:36.24] I wash, she dries, I do the floors
[00:40.21] We work together
[00:45.11] I shop and cook and sow a bit
[00:48.01] Though mum does too I must admit
[00:52.23] I do it better
[00:56.13] At night I work in a strange bar
[00:59.08] Impersonating every star
[01:02.23] I'm quite deceiving
[01:07.07] The customers come in with doubt
[01:10.00] And wonder what I'm all about
[01:13.12] But leave believing
[01:18.06] I do a very special show
[01:21.00] Where I am nude from head to toe
[01:25.01] After stripteasing
[01:28.24] Each night the men look so surprised
[01:31.22] I change my sex before their eyes
[01:34.12] Tell me if you can
[01:35.24] What makes a man a man
[01:42.11] Around three o'clock or so I meet
[01:45.08] With friends to have a bite to eat
[01:49.03] And conversation
[01:53.13] We love to empty out our hearts
[01:56.15] On every subject from the arts to liberation
[02:04.11] We love to pull apart someone
[02:07.00] And spread some gossip just for fun
[02:10.21] Or start a rumor
[02:15.05] We let our hair down, so to speak
[02:17.23] And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek
[02:21.10] And inside humor
[02:26.01] So many times we have to pay
[02:28.20] For having fun and being gay
[02:32.18] It's not amusing
[02:36.19] There's always those that spoil our games
[02:39.13] By finding fault and calling names
[02:43.03] Always accusing
[02:47.07] They draw attention to themselves
[02:50.07] At the expense of someone else
[02:53.18] It's so confusing
[02:57.21] Yet they make fun of how I talk
[03:00.22] And imitate the way I walk
[03:03.10] Tell me if you can
[03:04.19] What makes a man a man
[03:11.12] My masquerade comes to an end
[03:14.10] when I go home to bed again
[03:18.13] Alone and friendless
[03:22.12] I close my eyes, I think of him
[03:25.03] And fantasize what might have been
[03:28.22] My dreams are endless
[03:32.22] We love each other but it seems
[03:35.14] The love is only in my dreams
[03:39.10] It's so one sided
[03:43.07] But in this life I must confess
[03:45.21] The search for love and happiness
[03:49.04] Is unrequited
[03:53.11] I ask myself what I have got
[03:56.08] And what I am and what I'm not
[03:59.18] What have I given
[04:04.00] The answers come from those who make
[04:06.17] The rules that some of us must break
[04:10.05] Just to keep living
[04:14.14] I know my life is not a crime
[04:17.06] I'm just a victim of my time
[04:20.21] I stand defenseless
[04:25.05] Nobody has the right to be
[04:27.17] The judge of what is right for me
[04:30.11] Tell me if you can
[04:31.19] What make a man a man
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