Artist: Carpenters
Title: This Masquerade
1973 album: Now and Then
Written by Leon Russell
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Are we really happy with
this lonely game we play
Looking for the right words to say
Searching but not finding
Understanding any way
We're lost in this masquerade

Both afraid to say
we're just too far away
from being close
together from the start
We tried to talk it over
but the words got in the way
We're lost inside
this lonely game we play

Thoughts of leaving disappear
each time I see your eyes
And no matter how hard I try
to understand the reason
why we carry on this way
We're lost in this masquerade

We tried to talk it over
but the words got in the way
We're lost inside
this lone'ly game we play

Thoughts of leaving disappear
every time I see your eyes
And no matter how hard I try
to understand the reason
why we carry on this way
We're lost in this masquerade
We're lost in a masquerade