Can this world be a masquerade?
Are you really what we see on the outside?
And hidin' what you really are on the inside
Pretending that you're something you're really not

Whole world is a masquerade
Everybody, everybody wears another face (another face)
Whole world is a masquerade
Everybody, everybody wears another face
Just like a masquerade
Just like a masquerade

Can't you see, can't you see what you really are, oh, yeah?
Tell me that you want the world to be a better place
Yet you fight, makin' war on your fellow man

So why wear this face?
That makes it seem everything's so great, yeah, yeah, Lord, Lord

Whole world is a masquerade (is a masquerade)
Everybody, everybody wears another face (mmm, wears another face)
Whole world is a masquerade
Everybody, everybody wears another face
Oh, another face

Oh, oh, oh, won't you tell me
What can the whole world be hiding?
(I wanna know)
Whole world is a masquerade
What can the whole world be hiding?
(Mmm, wanna know)
Whole world (oh, ooo, Lord, Lord)
What can the whole world be hiding?
(Mmm, wanna know)
Whole world is a masquerade
What can the whole world be hiding?
Oh, won't you tell me
Whole world
What can the whole world be hiding?
I wanna know
Whole world is a masquerade
What can the whole world be hiding?