What Makes A Man (Comme ils disent)-Charles Aznavour

[ti:What Makes A Man (Comme ils disent)] [ar:Charles Aznavour] [al:Charles Aznavour chante en anglais - Les meilleurs moments (Remastered 2014)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]What Makes A Man (Comme ils disent) - Charles Aznavour [00:11.79]My mum and I we live alone [00:14.28] [00:14.82]A great apartment is our home [00:17.38] [00:18.64]In Fairhome Towers [00:22.18] [00:23.07]I have to keep me company [00:25.79]Two cats a dog a parakeet [00:28.86] [00:29.57]Some plants and flowers [00:32.95] [00:33.86]I help my mother with the chores [00:36.70]I wash she dries I do the floors [00:39.77] [00:40.63]We work together [00:44.25] [00:45.13]I shop and cook and sow a bit [00:47.01] [00:47.73]Though mum does too I must admit [00:50.72] [00:51.53]I do it better [00:55.40] [00:56.11]At night I work in a strange bar [00:58.41] [00:58.98]Impersonating every star [01:01.41] [01:02.50]I'm quite deceiving [01:06.25] [01:06.87]The customers come in with doubt [01:09.12] [01:09.65]And wonder what I'm all about [01:11.65] [01:13.06]But leave believing [01:17.03] [01:17.70]I do a very special show [01:20.52]Where I am nude from head to toe [01:23.08] [01:24.56]After stripteasing [01:28.44]Each night the men look so surprised [01:31.13]I change my sex before their eyes [01:33.85]Tell me if you can [01:34.82] [01:35.33]What makes a man a man [01:40.32] [01:41.90]Around 3 o'clock or so I meet [01:44.65]With friends to have a bite to eat [01:47.21] [01:48.47]And conversation [01:52.25] [01:52.84]We talk an empty out our hearts [01:55.01] [01:55.88]And every subject from the arts [01:58.13] [01:59.42]To liberation [02:02.63] [02:03.69]We love to pull apart someone [02:05.66] [02:06.29]And spread some gossip just for fun [02:09.09] [02:10.04]Or start a rumour [02:13.62] [02:14.41]We let our hair down so to speak [02:17.07]And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek [02:19.90] [02:20.54]And inside humour [02:25.19]So many times we have to pay [02:27.88]For having fun and being gay [02:30.34] [02:31.86]It's not amusing [02:35.17] [02:35.81]There's always those that spoil our games [02:38.56]By finding fault and calling names [02:41.22] [02:42.21]Always accusing [02:46.26]They draw attention to themselves [02:48.54] [02:49.25]At the expense of someone else [02:51.66] [02:52.71]It's so confusing [02:56.81]Yet they make fun of how I talk [02:59.22] [02:59.81]And imitate the way I walk [03:02.20]Tell me if you can [03:03.64]What makes a man a man [03:08.90] [03:10.42]My masquerade comes to an end [03:13.19]When I go home to bed again [03:15.54] [03:17.37]Alone and friendless [03:19.92] [03:21.34]I close my eyes I think of him [03:23.95]And fantasise what might have been [03:26.31] [03:27.71]My dreams are endless [03:30.66] [03:31.64]We love each other but it seems [03:34.12]The love is only in my dreams [03:37.46] [03:38.18]It's so one sided [03:41.02] [03:42.01]But in this life I must confess [03:44.47]The search for love and hapiness [03:47.18] [03:47.86]Is unrequited [03:52.17]I ask myself what I have got [03:54.29] [03:54.96]And what I am and what I'm not [03:57.24] [03:58.36]What have I given [04:02.06] [04:02.63]But an answers come from those who make [04:05.20]The rules that some of us must break [04:07.57] [04:08.80]Just to keep living [04:12.37] [04:13.12]I know my life is not a crime [04:15.25] [04:15.80]I'm just a victim of my time [04:18.51] [04:19.37]I stand defenceless [04:22.73] [04:23.43]Nobody has the right to be [04:26.06]The judge of what is right for me [04:28.75]Tell me if you can [04:30.16]What make a man a man