TITLE: A THOUSAND LIES, ONE BEAUTIFUL TRUTH [Male Verse] One card, one bell, one gesture of the hand. A curtain where no curtain stood, a door without a land. Take one step beyond it, leave certainty behind. Nothing here will change at all— except within your mind. Every place becomes a stage, every face may change. One familiar corridor becomes a world of strange. Footsteps with no walker, voices with no name. A thousand different witnesses will never see the same. [Male Chorus] Welcome to the Grand Masquerade, where certainty begins to fade. Choose your truth and choose your view, a thousand worlds unfold for you. Every mask and every lie holds a fragment underneath. Nothing here is truly changed— only what you choose to believe. [Instrumental] [Female Verse] I've seen three halls where there was one, heard bells that never rang. Met myself around a turn— she waved at me and ran! Stairs are climbing sideways, moonlight floods the floor. Every time I choose a path, you manufacture four. But here's the thing about me: I don't need to understand. If the floor becomes the ceiling, I'll just learn to upside-down dance! [Female Chorus] Bring on the Grand Masquerade! Let your pretty pictures cascade! Twist the road and bend the view, I'll make something strange of strange with you! Send the mirrors out to play, let tomorrow eat today. If nothing here is what it seems, I'll make my own way in between. [Instrumental] [Male Verse] I offered contradiction. You answered with a dance. I gave your doubt a thousand doors. You simply chose another chance. Most demand an answer. Most insist what's false or true. You waved farewell to your reflection when she stopped reflecting you. So let the paths grow stranger. Let every moment stray. A thousand scenes, a thousand selves, all sharing one grand stage. [Male Chorus] Welcome to the Grand Masquerade. Let certainty dissolve away. Different places, different eyes, different truths and different lies. Every fear and every desire gives another world its hue. I can change the way you see— but cannot choose what you will do. [Instrumental] [Female Verse] Then turn the city inside out! Give the shadows secret names! Let the hourglass run backward! I'll keep dancing all the same! Put another Jex beside me! Let her swear that she's the one. If she wants to steal my bells, you'd better tell her she should run! And there's that cat across the hall, tiny hat and all! Every time I see that face, I know exactly who's to blame! A thousand roads can disagree. A thousand eyes can doubt what they see. You can hide the ground beneath my feet— but you still can't choose for me! [Instrumental: three playful plucked notes and tiny bell] [Male Bridge] A good trick needs a flaw, a seam for careful eyes. Perfection leaves no room for doubt, and doubt sustains the lies. I built a thousand stages, prepared each grand design. Yet something in your wandering escaped the plans of mine. So take another pathway. Choose whatever you find true. The Grand Masquerade can shape the stage— the choice belongs to you. [Instrumental Build] [Duet Chorus] A thousand stages! A thousand skies! A thousand beautiful little lies! Mirrors fracture, pathways turn, every certainty can burn! A thousand roads! A thousand ways! A thousand worlds inside the haze! Let every version disagree! Let every eye choose what it sees! A thousand lies! A thousand views! One beautiful truth remains: The world may never change at all— but no two eyes will see the same. [Instrumental Outro]
