Charles Aznavour - What Makes A Man

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[00:00.00]What Makes A Man - Charles Aznavour
[00:12.05]My mum and I we live alone
[00:14.95]A great apartment is our home
[00:18.88]In Fairhome Towers
[00:23.28]I have to keep me company
[00:25.93]Two cats a dog a parakeet
[00:29.87]Some plants and flowers
[00:34.20]I help my mother with the chores
[00:36.93]I wash she dries I do the floors
[00:40.85]We work together
[00:45.43]I shop and cook and sow a bit
[00:48.06]Though mum does too I must admit
[00:51.90]I do it better
[00:56.48]At night I work in a strange bar
[00:59.19]Impersonating every star
[01:02.93]I'm quite deceiving
[01:07.23]The customers come in with doubt
[01:10.02]And wonder what I'm all about
[01:13.52]But leave believing
[01:18.20]I do a very special show
[01:20.93]Where I am nude from head to toe
[01:25.09]After stripteasing
[01:28.95]Each night the men look so surprised
[01:31.58]I change my sex before their eyes
[01:34.42]Tell me if you can
[01:35.92]What makes a man a man
[01:42.45]At three o'clock or so I meet
[01:45.29]With friends to have a bite to eat
[01:49.13]And conversation
[01:53.51]We told to empty out our hearts
[01:56.56]On every subject from the arts
[02:00.05]To liberation
[02:04.43]We love to pull apart someone
[02:07.00]And spread some gossip just for fun
[02:10.48]Or start a rumor
[02:15.14]We let our hair down so to speak
[02:17.84]And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek
[02:21.36]And inside humor
[02:26.03]So many times we have to pay
[02:28.72]For having fun and being gay
[02:32.75]It's not amusing
[02:36.72]There's always those that spoil our games
[02:39.42]By finding fault and calling names
[02:43.10]Always accusing
[02:47.28]They draw attention to themselves
[02:50.18]At the expense of someone else
[02:53.70]It's so confusing
[02:57.76]Yet they make fun of how I talk
[03:00.85]And imitate the way I walk
[03:03.38]Tell me if you can
[03:04.79]What makes a man a man
[03:11.58]My masquerade comes to an end
[03:14.39]When I go home to bed again
[03:18.54]Alone and friendless
[03:22.43]I close my eyes I think of him
[03:25.06]I fantasize what might have been
[03:28.84]My dreams are endless
[03:32.82]We love each other but it seems
[03:35.53]The love is only in my dreams
[03:39.40]It's so one sided
[03:43.28]But in this life I must confess
[03:45.76]The search for love and happiness
[03:49.12]Is unrequited
[03:53.39]I ask myself what I have got
[03:56.31]Of what I am and what I'm not
[03:59.66]What have I given
[04:03.96]The answers come from those who make
[04:06.63]The rules that some of us must break
[04:10.21]Just to keep living
[04:14.47]I know my life is not a crime
[04:17.22]I'm just a victim of my time
[04:20.82]I stand defenseless
[04:25.14]Nobody has the right to be
[04:27.57]The judge of what is right for me
[04:30.28]Tell me if you can
[04:31.73]What makes a man a man