[Intro]
F#m - A - E - D (x2)
Backstreet!
Listen up...
 
F#m                      D                                A
this seems so hypnotic smoking mirrors it's like a magic
                   E
people's faces and gold
        F#m
there's soldier boys beauty queens
D                   A                       E
everyone's a mystery it's got me losing control
 
 
D
yearning I'm yearning for the fisrt time in my life
      E
wanna play on this game of desguise
 
 
             F#m           D
it's a masquerade a love parade
              A
so won't you stay and
           E
dance with me all through
    F#m
the night and day
   D             A
ma-masquerade I need you baby
    E             F#m
so stay with me tonight
                 D
masquerade masquerade
      A          E
masquerade masquerade
      F#m        D
masquerade masquerade
      A          E
masquerade masquerade
 
F#m
just like a perfect dream
D
I don't ever wanna leave
A                           E
the thousand freaks and the show
F#m
once a time once a land
D
everyone's suffering
A                  E
moving high moving low
 
 
D
burning I'm burning
can't you see it in my eyes
      E
wanna play in this game of desguide
 
 
 
             F#m           D
it's a masquerade a love parade
              A
so won't you stay and
           E
dance with me all through
    F#m
the night and day
   D             A
ma-masquerade I need you baby
    E             F#m
so stay with me tonight
                 D
masquerade masquerade
      A          E
masquerade masquerade
      F#m        D
masquerade masquerade
      A          E
masquerade masquerade
 
 
D                          A
   I wanna know the girl behind the mask
          E
let me in where you've been don't pretent
D
   Don't got to hide, no
           A                     E
show your face to me we could be everything
 
          F#m (no music)
it's a masquerade a love parade
so won't you stay and
dance with me all through
    (hit the guitar like the drums)
the night and day
ma-masquerade I need you baby
    (stop)
so stay with me tonight
 
             F#m           D
it's a masquerade a love parade
              A
so won't you stay and
           E
dance with me all through
    F#m
the night and day
   D             A
ma-masquerade I need you baby
    E             F#m
so stay with me tonight
                 D
masquerade masquerade
      A          E
masquerade masquerade
      F#m        D
masquerade masquerade
      A          E
masquerade masquerade...