Who think it's just a fag show with people who pretend
To be a thing that nature never meant for them to be.
Just take them to the drag show and sit them next to me.
I'll show them great pretenders, their neighbors for a start
The people in their office who think they're so damned smart
Pretending life is just a song but singing out of tune.
Sneaking to the drag show in the early afternoon
The world is but a stage, he said, and every man an actor
But did he know the show we're in
And did he know the show he's in is just a cosmic gag,
Where all the world's a stage and all the players are in drag.
So who is NOT pretending, and who is really free
from pretense and illusion and lives where fantasy
is never realized? How sad to have to play
a part for which you aren't right and live it every day.
The very few, like me and you, who recognize what's what
Must do the very best we can and work with what we've got.
So take me to the drag show and show me to the men
And let them think they're lives are real,
To be whatever makes them feel
Then take them to the drag show