My mum and i we live alone   A great apartment is our home   In fairhome towers   I have to keep me company   Two dogs, a cat, a parakeet   Some plants and flowers   I help my mother with the chores   I wash, she dries, i do the floors   We work together   I shop and cook and sew a bit   Though mum does too i must admit   I do it better   At night i work in a strange bar   Impersonating every star   I'm quite deceiving   The customers come in with doubt   And wonder what i'm all about   But leave believing   I do a very special show   Where i am nude from head to toe   After stripteasing   Each night the men look so surprised   I change my sex before their eyes   Tell me if you can   What makes a man a man      At 3 o'clock or so i meet   With friends to have a bite to eat   And conversation   We love to empty out our hearts   With every subject from the arts   To liberation   We love to pull apart someone   And spread some gossip just for fun   Or start a rumour   We let our hair down, so to speak   And mock ourselves with tongue-in-cheek   And inside humour   So many times we have to pay   For having fun and being gay   It's not amusing   There's always those that spoil our games   By finding fault and calling names   Always accusing   They draw attention to themselves   At the expense of someone else   It's so confusing   Yet they make fun of how i walk   And imitate the way i talk   Tell me if you can   What makes a man a man      My masquerade comes to an end   And i go home to bed again   Alone and friendless   I close my eyes, i think of him   I fantasise what might have been   My dreams are endless   We love each other but it seems   The love is only in my dreams   It's so one sided   But in this life i must confess   The search for love and happiness   Is unrequited   I ask myself what have i got   Of what i am and what i'm not   What have i given   The answers come from those who make   The rules that some of us must break   Just to keep living   I know my life is not a crime   I'm just a victim of my time   I stand defenceless   Nobody has the right to be   The judge of what is right for me   Tell me if you can   What make a man a man      Tell me if you can   Tell me if you can   Tell me if you can   What makes a man a man