《What Makes A Man(Live From Carnegie Hall，United States/1995)》歌词

[00:00:00] What Makes A Man - Charles Aznavour

[00:00:12] My mum and I we live alone

[00:00:14] A great apartment is our home

[00:00:18] In Fairhome Towers

[00:00:22] I have to keep me company

[00:00:23] Two cats a dog a parakeet

[00:00:28] Some plants and flowers

[00:00:31] I help my mother with the chores

[00:00:33] I wash she dries I do the floors

[00:00:38] We work together

[00:00:42] I shop and cook and sow a bit

[00:00:45] Though mum does too I must admit

[00:00:47] I do it better

[00:00:51] At night I work in a strange bar

[00:00:54] Impersonating every star

[00:00:58] I'm quite deceiving

[00:01:01] The customers come in with doubt

[00:01:04] And wonder what I'm all about

[00:01:07] But leave believing

[00:01:11] I do a very special show

[00:01:13] Where I am nude from head to toe

[00:01:17] After stripteasing

[00:01:21] Each night the men look so surprised

[00:01:23] I change my sex before their eyes

[00:01:25] Tell me if you can

[00:01:27] What makes a man a man

[00:01:33] At three oclock or so I meet

[00:01:36] With friends to have a bite to eat

[00:01:39] And conversation

[00:01:43] We told to empty out our hearts

[00:01:45] On every subject from the arts

[00:01:49] To liberation

[00:01:52] We love to pull apart someone

[00:01:55] And spread some gossip just for fun

[00:01:58] Or start a rumor

[00:02:02] We let our hair down so to speak

[00:02:04] And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek

[00:02:07] And inside humor

[00:02:12] So many times we have to pay

[00:02:14] For having fun and being gay

[00:02:18] It's not amusing

[00:02:21] There's always those that spoil our games

[00:02:24] By finding fault and calling names

[00:02:27] Always accusing

[00:02:31] They draw attention to themselves

[00:02:33] At the expense of someone else

[00:02:37] It's so confusing

[00:02:40] Yet they make fun of how I talk

[00:02:43] And imitate the way I walk

[00:02:45] Tell me if you can

[00:02:47] What makes a man a man

[00:02:53] My masquerade comes to an end

[00:02:55] When I go home to bed again

[00:02:58] Alone and friendless

[00:03:02] I close my eyes I think of him

[00:03:05] I fantasize what might have been

[00:03:08] My dreams are endless

[00:03:11] We love each other but it seems

[00:03:13] The love is only in my dreams

[00:03:18] It's so one sided

[00:03:21] But in this life I must confess

[00:03:23] The search for love and happiness

[00:03:26] Is unrequited

[00:03:31] I ask myself what I have got

[00:03:33] Of what I am and what I'm not

[00:03:37] What have I given

[00:03:40] The answers come from those who make

[00:03:42] The rules that some of us must break

[00:03:46] Just to keep living

[00:03:49] I know my life is not a crime

[00:03:52] I'm just a victim of my time

[00:03:55] I stand defenseless

[00:03:59] Nobody has the right to be

[00:04:02] The judge of what is right for me

[00:04:04] Tell me if you can

[00:04:05] What makes a man a man