The Last Masquerade Lyrics

This will be the last masquerade

The final act in this charade

The last play

And performance on this stage

Before the footlights begin to fade

Welcome to our last reception

Celebration of deception

Let's hear it for the band that played

And all the spectators who paid

And stayed for the party

And cavalcade

Now the rain must fall on our parade

We thank you all--thanks a million

For attending our cotillion

It's the last masque ball of the season

And the end of an age of reason

Enemies breaching the barricade

Upon the eve of a new decade

The clock strikes midnight in the hall

The time grows short and shadows tall

Paintings on the wall

Depicting the fall

The party is over for us all

It's the last masque ball of the season

I sense a friend committing treason

And the feeling of being betrayed

By the face behind the masquerade