It Takes A Woman's Love (To Make A Man)
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Steve Walsh)

Late every nite when I am all alone
I call my baby on the telephone
If she was here she'd treat me right
And love me love me through this lonely nite
Oh I can remember how her love can be
And I can't forget the way she looks at me
If you got a girl I'm sure she understands
It takes a woman's love to make a man

We're on the road tryin' to sell a song
Been on this road for much too long
All day all night it's drivin' me insane
Cause I don't know when I'll see her face again
But it ain't no easy thing we've got to do
And I love her cause she knows it too
She surely made me understand
It takes a woman's love to make a man
It takes a woman's love to make a man

I give her love cause what else can it be?
I give to her just what she wants from me.
She loves me hard, she loves me right
She'll love me love me through this lonely nite
Then happiness we'll surely know
Until again it will be time to go
Oh she loves me like nobody can
I know that women made me understand
It takes a woman's love to make a man


Two Cents Worth
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Livgren /Walsh)

Well I been drinkin' again
And I know it's a sin
But I just can't refuse an old friend
Cause life is gettin' me down
And I been two times around
And there ain't nothing but pain around the bend
I'm not made for the time
I'm born in the wrong century
There's too much craziness here
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes

Now this old world is a fright
You know my future ain't bright
And I'd just crawl in a hole if I could
Or maybe live out in space
Or some other far away place
And not come back to this earth till it's good
Oh but I'm dreaming again
I know that I'm here till the end
There's too much craziness here
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes

Well you might think that I'm all wrong
The things I say in this song
I really wish I could see it your way
Cause there's a storm rollin' in
And it just might be the end
So I'm praying we'll all get away
Now my cup is running dry
The weight of the world gets me down
There's too much craziness here
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes
There's nowhere to turn
So I'll just have to learn not to cry, no more
It's all I can do till we find something new
But I'll get by you know I'll try
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes.


Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Livgren)

Early in the morning sunlight
Soaring on the wings of dawn
Here I'll live and die with my wings in the sky
And I won't come down no more

Higher than a bird I'm flying
Crimson skies of ice and fire
Borne on wings of steel I have so much to feel
And I won't come down no more

Sail on, sail on, I will rise each day to meet the dawn
So high, so high
I've climbed the mountains of the sky
Without my wings you know I'd surely die
I found my freedom flyin' high
I've climbed the mountains of the sky

Floating on a cloud of amber
Searching for the rainbow's end
Earth so far below me,
I'm here alone, free
I can't come down no more

All the World
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Steinhardt /Walsh)

All the world's forgiving the change is all around 
And people everywhere have seen the light in what they've found 
It's a happy place in the human race 
When all our lives are lived forgiving 

All the world's for living when love is what you find 
Despair and loneliness you've got to leave them far behind 
Tell the clouds to go let the feeling show 
It's great when life is full of living 

Everyone's aware they know to change the world we've got to care 
And people all should know should have happened long ago 
Or could it be that I just now found out 

Life is meant to share and it means the same thing everywhere 
Living everyday, helping people on their way 
Cause sometimes life gives everyone some doubts 

Can I have time? Is it right what I feel? 
At times I doubt what I normally know is real 
But right now I don't know what to do 
And it's all because of you 
I could tell you if I knew that you'd believe 

As slight and elusive as life sometimes is 
Right or wrong as we both know we all can be 
I could never have denied that I need you by my side 
'Cause without you life don't seem that much to me 

I can see an old man cry, it's his time to die 
And life no longer gives him any breaks 
He hasn't got a home, no one to call his own 
Still he tells no one that it is more than he can take 

When the time is so unkind, an empty future plays in your mind 
When the darkness cries out to you, can you escape it? 
What can you do? 

All the world's forgetting the hate that filled our hearts 
The times of selfish reasoning that keeps all apart 
This world was meant to share, let them know you care 
By making someone's life worth living 

All the world's believing that this felling's got to stay 
till all the world is living 
till all the world is giving 
till all the world is loving every day


Child of Innocence
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Livgren)

Well I been drinkin' again
And I know it's a sin
But I just can't refuse an old friend
Cause life is gettin' me down
And I been two times around
And there ain't nothing but pain around the bend
I'm not made for the time
I'm born in the wrong century
There's too much craziness here
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes

Now this old world is a fright
You know my future ain't bright
And I'd just crawl in a hole if I could
Or maybe live out in space
Or some other far away place
And not come back to this earth till it's good
Oh but I'm dreaming again
I know that I'm here till the end
There's too much craziness here
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes

Well you might think that I'm all wrong
The things I say in this song
I really wish I could see it your way
Cause there's a storm rollin' in
And it just might be the end
So I'm praying we'll all get away
Now my cup is running dry
The weight of the world gets me down
There's too much craziness here
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes
There's nowhere to turn
So I'll just have to learn not to cry, no more
It's all I can do till we find something new
But I'll get by you know I'll try
In twenty-five years I have used all the tears in my eyes.

It's You
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Walsh)


Late every nite when I am all alone
I call my baby on the telephone
If she was here she'd treat me right
And love me love me through this lonely nite
Oh I can remember how her love can be
And I can't forget the way she looks at me
If you got a girl I'm sure she understands
It takes a woman's love to make a man
We're on the road tryin' to sell a song
Been on this road for much too long
All day all night it's drivin' me insane
Cause I don't know when I'll see her face again
But it ain't no easy thing we've got to do
And I love her cause she knows it too
She surely made me understand
It takes a woman's love to make a man
It takes a woman's love to make a man
I give her love cause what else can it be?
I give to her just what she wants from me
She loves me hard, she loves me right
She'll love me love me through this lonely nite
Then happiness we'll surely know
Until again it will be time to go
Oh she loves me like nobody can
I know that women made me understand
It takes a woman's love to make a man


Mysteries and Mayhem
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Livgren /Walsh)

Well I'm trying to tell you about a thing I thought I saw
It came to me in a dream one night
When a voice began to call
I heard my name being summoned as I looked around to see
A hooded judge and jury
There was no mercy there for me
Well I can't make it, I just can't figure it out
This dream is drivin' me crazy
I gotta know what it's all about
The mark is upon me, and the mark of Cain brings fear

A cold wind's blowin' right down my back
I'm runnin, I'm runnin' from a figure that's dressed in black
I think my legs are made out of lead
Cause I'm runnin' but I'm going nowhere
The bad dream is coming closer and closer
I got a feelin' he'll always be there
Forever is a long time to spend in agony
And the demons of confusion have got a place for me
The mark is upon me, and the mark of Cain brings fear

I was tired, so tired of runnin'
I had to turn and look around
I saw eyes that looked right through me
And a voice that made no sound
My body froze and I stood and stared, unearthly face before me
From the depths of a hooded nightmare, I saw what could not be
Mysteries and mayhem from the pinnacle I see
There's no answer when there's no question
The mark of Cain bears hard on me


The Pinnacle
Album: Masque (September 1975)
(Livgren)

Well I'm trying to tell you about a thing I thought I saw
It came to me in a dream one night
When a voice began to call
I heard my name being summoned as I looked around to see
A hooded judge and jury
There was no mercy there for me
Well I can't make it, I just can't figure it out
This dream is drivin' me crazy
I gotta know what it's all about
The mark is upon me, and the mark of Cain brings fear

A cold wind's blowin' right down my back
I'm runnin, I'm runnin' from a figure that's dressed in black
I think my legs are made out of lead
Cause I'm runnin' but I'm going nowhere
The bad dream is coming closer and closer
I got a feelin' he'll always be there
Forever is a long time to spend in agony
And the demons of confusion have got a place for me
The mark is upon me, and the mark of Cain brings fear

I was tired, so tired of runnin'
I had to turn and look around
I saw eyes that looked right through me
And a voice that made no sound
My body froze and I stood and stared, unearthly face before me
From the depths of a hooded nightmare, I saw what could not be
Mysteries and mayhem from the pinnacle I see
There's no answer when there's no question
The mark of Cain bears hard on me