Masquerade
Harry Smothers
(Tune: "Masquerade" by Leon Russell)

Fabric don't come cheaply, though you didn't use that much.
It looks like the last one you made.
Elmer's glue and sequins always serve you in the clutch --
Life in the Masquerade.

Walk around the ballroom, smile and wriggle, don't begrudge;
Gropers are part of the trade.
Your sequins missed their placement, but that didn't miss one judge.
Life in the Masquerade.

You'd think there's more to life than going naked to a con,
You'd think there's more a body could put on.
And then you find your audience has just come in from church --
They gape, you freeze, then all the fun in gone.

Awards were then announced -- one to a Wookie from Star Wars,
A dragon on rollerblades,
And some stupid bimbo in an outfit just like yours!
Life in the Masquerade.





Written 1995 (11/25) by Gerald L. Bliss.

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