Bài hát: Masks - Jules Riding

I wear a mask to protect me
from the guilt of a failed life
With nails through my ambitions
With blankets on my emotions
With clamps on my expectations
And something’s strangling my voice....
I wear a mask to protect me
From the guilt of a failed life

I weigh in at the battle with odds a zillion to one
Why’s it so very hard to be me
Is it something I’ve done?
Fear clings like a night gone wrong
Emotional crises wreck my song
The wind howls like raging animal
And some animal is strangling my voice....
I weigh in at the battle with odds a zillion to one

I’m a wreck of a man defeated by defeat
Depressed by depression, cheated by a cheat
Sentenced to a life of gloominess
When victory was the need
The flag waver’s lost direction
And someone’s strangling my voice....
I’m a wreck of a man defeated by defeat

What hope is there now for me
When angels of light file past
When we should have been the very first one
And the Taxman says.... I’m last
I wear a mask to protect me
From the guilt of a failed life

The Lord says:
Take off your mask in a quiet place
Give Me your naked emotions
Give Me the skin on your face
Give Me the pain you see in the mirror
When you’re fragile and thin
Take off your mask, let Me help you in

Open your heart to Me in my presence
Be shattered like a broken pot
Everything that you are
Give Me all that you’re not
Life is worthless without Me
I’m the pearl of very great price
Can you see My big picture
Can you see My ultimate sacrifice?

So put on the garment of praise
Put on the ‘face plate’ of Me
Bring every thought captive to My will
In my presence liberty
Let your crusty burnt out mask fall and die
Lift up your hands now in surrender
Let your new self be born again
As I touch your face so tender, so tenderly