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

was written by Max Factor?

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,

but I know they pretend

To be whatever makes them feel

they're safe, secure, and free.

Then take them to the drag show

and sit them next to me.