Lyrics to
This Masquerade

This version of This Masquerade was released by The Carpenters in 1973.

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Are we really happy here
With this lonely game we play
Looking for words to say
Searching but not finding
understanding anywhere
We’re lost in a masquerade

Both afraid to say we’re just to far away
From being close together from the start
We tried to talk it over but the words got in the way
We’re lost inside this lonely game we play

Thoughts of leaving disappear
Every time I see your eyes
No matter how hard I try
To understand the reasons
Why we carry on this way
We’re lost in a masquerade

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About Lyrics and This Masquerade by The Carpenters

When you decide to study the lyrics to This Masquerade, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by The Carpenters. Some of the lyrics to This Masquerade have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Carpenters and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to This Masquerade if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 This Masquerade" means the words set to the music of This Masquerade, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Carpenters. 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 This Masquerade and the lyrics to This Masquerade are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Carpenters who came here looking just for the lyrics to This Masquerade, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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