Mask is a 1985 American biographical drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cher, Sam Elliott, and Eric Stoltz. Dennis Burkley and Laura Dern are featured in supporting roles. Cher received the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress. The film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, a boy who suffered from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare disorder known commonly as lionitis due to the disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes. Mask won the Academy Award for Best Makeup while Cher and Stoltz received Golden Globe nominations for their performances.
Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), who suffers from a skull deformity, is accepted without question by his freewheeling biker mother's boyfriends, the extended motorcycle family, and his maternal grandparents (who share his love of baseball card collecting) but treated with fear, pity, awkwardness, and teasing by those unaware of his humanity, humor, and intelligence. Rocky's mother, Florence "Rusty" Dennis (Cher) is determined to give Rocky a life as normal as possible, in spite of her own wild ways as a member of the biker gang. She fights for Rocky's inclusion in a mainstream junior high school, and she confronts a principal who would rather classify Rocky with mental retardation and relegate him to a special education school to fulfill his special needs. Rusty asks the principal if they teach "algebra, biology, and English at this school, because...these are Rocky's needs."
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You look better that way
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You look better that way
Are you my friend?
Are you my plumber?
Are you my God?
What do you do?
Wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
Which mask are you?
Which mask are you?
Complicated, crushed up, disappointed
Squirming, angry, thrusting, stabbing, regretting, starving
Greedy human alien being, struggling down the street
Up the alley, in the elevator, through the party
To the office, in the bedroom, on your way to the morgue
Bullshitting, lying, doing a good deed or feeling loved barely possible
Aware of insatiable demands of not a society all around you
Chunky frat boys in their shorts, pimps with old Semite eyes
Sex hoochies of the jungle, sensitive smart Alec college graduates
Critics fronting franticly in New York city, every body in L.A.
Just plain licking ass or having it licked
Irony in place of balls, balls in place of brains
Brains in place of soul, where is the soul?
Where is the love, where am I?
Which mask are you?
Which mask are you?
Which mask are you?
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
It becomes hard to face
It becomes hard to see the face
The face that sees you without flinching
The face that you put on when you're all by yourself
I wear a mask, I wear a mask
The mask is intact
You see no cracks on the outside
I'm smooth, expressionless
You can't read me
Behind the mask I die over and over
I scream from behind the mask
Now the mask is cracking
My truth comes out, my mask falls to the floor
I see the face that I got
kutsuu kasaneta hibikatamete yuu asufaruto ni
migi e naraeshibarareta haijin tachi
doku no hana ga saki midaretejuuji wo kiri inoreba
heiwashugisha no shiroi MASKkono te ne totte
hakaishugisha no kuroi MASKkono te ni totte
Sweet lifeMad lifeLast lifeBrain crash
muchi de utareru mainichi narakubi nama tsukami
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migi mehidari memigi tehidari temigi ashihidari ashi
honeasenamidaketsuekikokyuushinkeishunou mo
yume wo tachikirarete ikiteku dokusai shugi ni
hane wo hirogete miyou arumi no hane
mahi suru made nomashi tsuzukehiru wo nomasete
hane wo hirogete miyou kuzure yuku yume
There is nothing that you can say to me
That will take me from the place that I am meant to be
So-called friends turn their backs and run
Convenience is the only thing they do not shun
Is this just another smile
Is this just another mask you wear
The friendly faces in every day new places
Who is real and why is it so rare
The gratitude that I hold so closely
Is for the ones who always see the truth and trust it solely
A companion a closest friend
i've never ever ever been told
bored of losing, tired and cold
never ever ever been lost
in my words
so don't
leave
don't
leave
be one of us
be free
'cause i'm moving on up
got to find a better place
got my head in my hands
'cause i can't show face
i am the greatest
you already know
i am the greatest
i've never ever ever been free
never ever ever been me
what's inside i decide
'cause i deceive
so don't
leave
don't
leave
be one of us
be free
'cause i'm moving on up
got to find a better place
got my head in my hands
'cause i can't show face
i am the greatest
you already know
i am the greatest
[Solo]
All the drama and the words
Endless noise reflecting
No value, no substance
In anything you're saying
Confusing a reason
But no one is really listening
Just seeking approval
Desperate to draw attention
Die behind your mask
Die behind your mask
Die behind your mask
Die behind your mask
No substance or logic
Behind a mask, you're hiding
Keep reaching for something
Untruthful accusations
(I can take it, I can take it)
Your bullshit is wasted
It only makes us stronger
More proof in our actions
Can stand by what we are doing
Die behind your mask
Die behind your mask
Die behind your mask
Die behind your mask
Hide - Lie - Hide - Take your mask off
Hide - Lie - Hide - Take your mask off
The true voice, our music
It's always been our music
Can't speak to our faces
It's easy to put your mask on
The typing and bitching
It's how you keep your distance
There's always a reason
We've moved beyond your limits
Hide - Lie - Hide - Take your mask off
Hide - Lie - Hide - Take your mask off
[Solo]
A life in disguise, it's all a dream
Look at me, it's so predictable
With your head bowed down
It's time to cross these lines
And stand face to face
Look at me, look at me, look at me!
Hide - Lie - Hide - Take your mask off
[Verse]
Follow the rainbow's eyes, in order to see the obvious me
Hidden among the lies, with so much to lose, well how do you choose?
[Chorus]
From way up high there's nothing but lies
Merely a lie that severs the ties
From way up high there's nothing but lies
Merely a lie that severs the ties
[Verse]
Well, I've heard that one by one, a courteous mask is all we become
Like a worn out sun, whose use has gone now for everyone
[Chorus]
From way up high there's nothing but lies
Merely a lie that severs the ties
From way up high there's nothing but lies
Merely a lie that severs the ties
[Bridge]
From way up high there's nothing but lies
Merely a lie that severs the ties
MASK
If You ever find me
Could you untie me
I'm battling my mind
Depression Suicide
Veins bursting in my heart
Are tearing me apart
My face is on the floor
i'm numb from being sore
I need relief for all of my time is spent fixing me
How does it feel
To breath the night
To be alive
How does it feel
To be free to finally believe
To believe To believe
I'm just a filthy tramp
Can't shake what falls in my lap
inside the troubled mess
The sucker never rested
Seems that every time that I wake
i'm always wearing this miserable mask
How does it feel
To taste the rain
And have no pain
How does it feel
To loose yourself
To finally believe
To believe, To believe, To believe
Oh there are times of peace
But only for a short reprieve
No No i'm tripping again
No No i'm falling again
How does it feel
To breath the night
To be alive
How does it feel
To loose yourself
To finally believe
How does it feel
To taste the rain
And have no pain
How does it feel
To loose yourself
To finally Believe
You left me for reasons I never did understand
But now...
I can see the sun, comming back to me
Even though she wears this mask
This just might be my chance
If not I'll be forever lost
I, I want you
And you, you want me
So let us come together, here and now
And please let me, wear you mask!
Put the sun in the sky
Light up my heart
And please let me
It becomes hard to face
It becomes hard to see the face
The face that sees you without flinching
The face that you put on when you're all by yourself
I wear a mask, I wear a mask
The mask is intact
You see no cracks on the outside
I'm smooth, expressionless
You can't read me
Behind the mask I die over and over
I scream from behind the mask
Now the mask is cracking
My truth comes out, my mask falls to the floor
I see the face that I got
The man of shadows thinks in clay
Dreamed trapped thoughts of suffocation days
He's seen in iron environments
With plastic sweat out of chiseled slits for eyes
From the growth underneath the closed mouth
You'll catch if you listen rack trapped cubist vowels
From a dummy head expression
From a dummy head expression
Transformation is invested
With the mysterious and the shameful
While the thing I am becomes somethin' else
Part character, part sensation
The shadow is cast, the shadow is cast
The shadow is cast, the shadow is cast
The shadow is cast, the shadow is cast
Mutism killer one
Soulless innocence catcher
Pure evil slitting shadow
With eyes blacker than the night
Unrepentant homicides
Done with a butcher knife
Behind this mask is so much hatred
This cold heart will beat forever more
And if she dies tonight, he will be sure
In this damn night, he will be sure
If she dies tonight, he will be sure
On Halloween, everyone must die
Murdering killer-clown-child
With ambitions to kill his own blood
Not untill the last blood dies
The evil's slleeping In the haunted house
And if she dies tonight, he will be sure
In this damn night, he will be sure
If she dies tonight, he will be sure
On Halloween, everyone must die
He will ever be by her side
If she's calling
Not until the last blood dies
If she's calling
He will ever find her
If she's calling
Not untill the last blood dies
Come on Michael
Come on Michael
running in step
in place in circles for you here
around the things i knew i never said
given the chance i knew the follow through
to make this real
this mask
is all i see
it’s all i feel
it’s all i fear i'll ever
but i need you to feel alive
everyone watches
as this world has gone astray
alone in the dreams of others nightmares
half the time i find it real
the other half is looking back again through
this mask
is all i see
it’s all i feel
it’s all i fear i'll ever be
but i need you to feel alive
this mask
is all i see
it’s all i feel
it’s all i fear i'll ever be
but i need you to feel alive
You hide behind a mask too confused to show what's real
Plastic sense of value to go with your plastic way of life
Your self-righteousness is corrupted by your tendencies to avoid your lies
Paranoia - Hypocrite - You burn another bridge
"Your self-righteousness is corrupted by your tendencies to avoid
confrontations causing a
fake relationship with the ones who support you and as you burn yet another
bridge you
fall into the trap of becoming a hypocrite of all the accusations you once
slayed me with".
Afraid - Confused - Coward behind the mask
You hide behind a mask too confused to tell the truth
Backwards way of thinking to go with your backward way of life
"You relay a false confidence and a sense of friendly surroundings but behind
closed
doors you burn with hatred and loathing to anyone honest to not provide you
with a
total worship and give you full control which causes you to loose it and go
insane".
Afraid - Confused - Coward behind the mask
How could you not think that I won't even know
How could you not think that I can't even see
How could you not think that I don't even feel
How could I forget the words you said to me
How could I forget the things you took from me
How could I forget the way you were to me
I don't even care who's behind the mask
I put my mask on for another day again
And step out with a smile on my reaper's face
I keep on pretending that I don't ever bleed
I make myself strong with scars you'll never see
If I take my mask off and let you see me
I'll be weak and you'll be strong enough to leave
I know it won't be so bad
(our selfish set of needs)
Though the mask hurts even more
Even though it makes you so sad
(this selfish set of beings)
Though the mask hurts even more
So I keep this lie on even if you don't
'Cos what is hard on out is soft from the core
Yes it's better to hurt someone that you love
Than to crushed by someone you don't know
If I take my mask off and let you see me
I'll be weak and you'll be strong enough to leave
I know it won't be so bad
(our selfish set of needs)
Though the mask hurts even more
Even though it makes you so sad
(this selfish set of beings)
Though the mask hurts even more
[Solo]
I know it won't be so bad
(our selfish set of needs)
Though the mask hurts even more
Even though it makes you so sad
(this selfish set of beings)
Though the mask hurts even more
I know it won't be so bad
(our selfish set of needs)
Though the mask hurts even more
Even though it makes you so sad
(this selfish set of beings)
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You look better that way
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You look better that way
Are you my friend?
Are you my plumber?
Are you my God?
What do you do?
Wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
Which mask are you?
Which mask are you?
Which mask are you?
Complicated
Crushed up
Disappointed
Sguirming
Angry
Thrusting
Stabbing
Regretting
Starving
Greedy
Human alien being
Struggling down the street
Up the alley
In the elevator
Through the party
To the office, in the bedroom
On your way to the morgue
Bullshittin'
Lyin'
Doing a good deed or feeling loved barely possible
Aware of insatiable demands of not a society all around you
Chunky frat boys in their shorts
Pimps with old semite eyes
Sex hoochies of the jungle
Sensitive smart alec college graduates
Critics fronting frantically in New York City
Everybody in L.A. just plain licking ass or having it licked
Irony in place of balls
Balls in place of brains
Brains in place of soul
Where is the soul?
Where is the love?
Where am I?
Which mask are you?
Which mask are you?
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
You're wearing a mask
Black pyramid burn a hole in the sky
black pyramid take my baby away
from the edge of the desert to the bottom of the sea
black pyramid cast your shadow over me
I feel like life has no beginning
I feel like life it has no end
black pyramid flash of light in the sky
black pyramid took my baby away
he woke up in a field and forgot his name
black pyramid cast your shadow in the flame
I feel like life has no beginning
Kizu hitotsu nai kokoro ga doko ni aru no darou ka
Kubimoto wo toorisugiru kaze ni tazunerareta
Mattou na kotae nante mochiawasete wa inai
Hitori hitotsu no inochi iki iki to ikiru dake
Sukoshi dake ao sugita haru ni uchinomesarete
Onaji natsu no hikari wo tomo ni kakiwakete kita
Kimi no eranda michi ni maemuki sa yo, habikore
Mata itsuka tomoshi aemasu you ni
"Kumorazu ni ikite hoshii dakara ame wo kirawanai de"
"Uso wa tsukazu ni ite hoshii sabishiku naru dake dakara"
Kimi no karada wa sono uchigawa ni ai wo hisomasete hakobu tame ni arunda
Zutto zutto umareta hi kara zutto
Boku mo kimi no kare mo dare mo minna kotoba ni dekizu samayotterunda
Itsuka itsuka todokerareru you ni tte
Hito no wa ni hairisobire dou suru koto mo dekizu
Kodoku to iu kyoten de kisetsu wo kikaeru dake
Gyakufuu ni dakare nagara iki taeteku negai wa
Sorezore ga motsu omoi no naka ni dake sumitsuku
Koko de wa nai dokoka ni nigete shimaitakutte
Jibun ja nai dareka ni natte shimaitakutte
Toriaezu haritsuketa egao no ichimai oku
Hito wa nani wo hoshigaru no darou
Nesobetta shibafu no ue sukoshi dake naita ato ni
DOONATSU no ana kara nozoku sora ga amari ni aokute kondo wa omoikiri naita
TAIMU MASHIN ga nakutatte iinda ima wo daiji ni dekitara iinda
Kedo kedo koukai wo tebanasezu
Itsuka yorisou tame ni hitori ni natta hitotsu ni naru tame kakera ni natte
Sou sa sou da yo
Isshou no uchi ni ma ni au you ni tte
Kimi ga kureta ano omoi ni kirei na namae nado nakute mo
Kimi ga kureta ano omoi wa kioku no sora wo maitsuzukeru
"Kumorazu ni ikite hoshii dakara ame wo kirawanai de" to
"Uso wa tsukazu ni ite hoshii sabishiku naru dake dakara" to
Boku no naka de maigo ni natta kodoku wo kimi wa sagashi dashite dakishimete kureta
Mou ne naite iinda yo tte
Korae kireru you ni natte shimatte kanashii no ni nakenakatta
Boku zutto boku zutto nakitakattanda naa
Kokoro ni mo kabusenai de omoikiri waraitakattanda