Lyrics to
Masquerade

This version of Masquerade was released by Uriah Heep in 1977.

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A masquerade of dancing shadows
Appear before me through my mystic window
And soon to be seen I saw presented
Became a vision that I saw resented
I stood and watched its image changing
The unseen hand was rearranging
And all the time I wondered
How did it wind

Slowly, surely it unfolded
Its simple lines just as
A pole wind told it ??
A temporary revolution
My problems rose and fell
With a lapse of illusion
A man was telling me, don’t fight it
It’s just a ?? in the night
Don’t do those who’ve lost their way
It’s a masquerade

Masquerade, it’s a masquerade

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About Lyrics and Masquerade by Uriah Heep

The lyrics for Masquerade are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Uriah Heep. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Masquerade have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Masquerade - Uriah Heep and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Masquerade by Uriah Heep in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Masquerade" means the words set to the music of Masquerade, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Uriah Heep. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Masquerade and the lyrics to Masquerade are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Uriah Heep who came here looking just for the lyrics to Masquerade, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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