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    these lyrics are submitted by OarSmaN