Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator

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Masks

He's a man of the past and one of the present,
a man who hides behind a mask behind a mask;
a clown, a fool, believing it cool to be down
or that the game is all about who laughs the last.

So he tells all his problems to his friends
and relations, exposes his neuroses to their view.
They accept as fact
every masochistic mumble of his act;
how could they know what was false
and what was true?

Sometimes when he wakes
he feels he's walked into a dream
but all it takes
to remind him things are what they seem
is the belief
that the man behind the mask can really dance
Pirouetting smile
he sees himself cavorting,
Pierrot for a while
before aborting
to find relief
in the shelter of the dark, most telling mask.

After all the pantomimes are ended
he peels all the make-up off his face
to reveal, beneath,
the tears running all down his cheeks:
alne, he opens to the world...
but it's much too late.
He's been left, in the end, without a face.

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Other Songs by this Artist

1. A Place To Survive
2. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
3. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: (Custard’s) Last Stand
4. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Eyewitness
5. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Land’s End (Sineline) / We Go Now
6. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Presence Of The Night / Kosmos Tours
7. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: S.H.M.
8. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: The Clot Thickens
9. Aerosol Grey Machine
10. After The Flood
11. Afterwards
12. Aguarian
13. Arrow
14. Cat’s Eye / Yellow Fever (Running)
15. Chemical World
16. Childlike Faith In Childhood’s End
17. Darkness (11/11)
18. Door
19. Firebrand
20. House With No Door
21. Into A Game
22. Killer
23. La Rossa
24. Last Frame
25. Lemmings (Including COG)
26. Lizard Play
27. Lost I. Dance In Sand And Sea
28. Lost II. Dance In Frost
29. Man-Erg
30. Masks
31. Meurglys III, The Songwriter’s Guild
32. Mirror Images
33. My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)
34. Necromancer
35. Octopus
36. Orthenthian Street Part I
37. Orthenthian Street Part II
38. Out Of My Book
39. Pilgrims
40. Pioneers Over C.
41. Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Eyewitness
42. Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: The Clot Thickens
43. Refugees
44. Running Back
45. Scorched Earth
46. Ship Of Fools
47. Still Life
48. The Emperor On His War-Room I. The Emperor
49. The Emperor On His War-Room II. The Room
50. The Habit Of The Broken Heart
51. The People You Were Going To
52. The Siren Song
53. The Sleepwalkers
54. The Sphinx In The Face
55. The Undercover Man
56. The Wave
57. Urban
58. Whatever Would Robert Have Said
59. When She Comes
60. White Hammer
61. Wondering