Something of the masquerade may follow

Something of this masquerade may follow
Enter someone in disguise
Clad in truth, and cloaked in lies
Baring and unmasking every hollow
And something of this masquerade may follow

Something of this big parade may catch us
Enter someone beating drums
Tempting fate and down it comes
Threatening to discover and dispatch us

And something of this big parade
Something of this mass charade
Something of this masquerade may follow

There’s a stain spreading over the land
There’s a vileness clouding the water
And a blue-grey hawk in the bloodshot sky
Leads his blue-grey brother to slaughter

Can the music drown out the marching?
Can the river cover the tears?
Can the mania hold back tomorrow
On this ship that destiny stears?

Something of this masquerade may follow
Enter someone in disguise
Clad in truth, and cloaked in lies

Something of this masquerade may follow
Enter someone in disguise
Clad in truth, and cloaked in lies

Something of this big parade may catch us
Enter someone beating drums
Tempting fate and down it comes
Threatening to discover and dispatch us

And something of this big parade
Something of this mass charade–
Something of this masquerade may follow