Sonata Arctica - Lager Than Life

"I climb up on the stage
Wearing an old man's face
I've said those
words a thousand times
I memorized the lines of Paris
The Prince and Friar
I might one day play them too
To get here took its time
I forgot to make a life
Between the scripted ones I knew
When admiration grew
I was only loved by few
My true love and
passion everyone knew
Hamlet in Lapland
King Lear died in Vienna
Venice and Othello
Madrid I am Henry the 8th
I am I am
We all shall one day
become what we play
The marvelous magical
bewildering array
Of trees and stones
as we work our way up
To become these icons
of lust and what not
We live in the sin
of self indulgent
larger than life
Yeah that's what I am
I am a goddamn Peter Pan man
But the one palace
I won't grow up in
Staged a broken leg
deep in my grave
When life becomes a play
and I don't know the role
I'm cast it's all wrong
but I cannot escape before the
Curtain call
One last time build
myself a wall to cry on
To hide in plain view
I will fall deeper
in the role written
In a drunken haze
it seems by Shakespeare in me
Stage film and television
Twenty four seven on the scene
I'm Larger than life
Nightclubs cabarets
spotlights never turn away now
Larger than life
The meaning of the fame is getting
Lesser by the day for me somehow
Larger than life
My friends all have families
Who now have their families
I lived half a century
aboding deep in vanities
Am I now wise
when I've learned all the traits
Of a fool
The mirror now cries
ageless mask fades to true life
To taste the immortal grace
I lived the role I played
Alone in a golden cage
Life is what we make of
it sometimes sometimes
Sometimes we just want to play
So don't take life so seriously
Play love have fun
leave misery be
Regrets are built
in a cold dark cage
Where nothing ever happens
Where nothing ever happens
So don't take life so seriously
Play love have fun
leave misery be
Regrets are built
in a cold dark cage
Where nothing ever happens
Where nothing ever happens
Where nothing ever happens
Where nothing ever happens
I climb down from the stage
Remove the young man's face
And underneath reveal a sage
Young man you play my role
Breathe life into that soul
Prepare to live a thousand lives
Now when you think it's all over
you find love
A flower starts to bloom
a chapter starts anew
The greatest moment in life
Mirror still lies
time is cruel silent landslide
It builds you up within
destroys the shell you're in
And everything will fall into place
When life becomes a play
And I you don't know
the role I'm you're cast
It's all wrong
but I you cannot
Escape before the curtain call
One last time
build yourself a wall to cry on
For anybody to see
You will fall deeper
in the role you wrote in a drunken
Haze it seems
with Shakespeare within
Stage film and television
Twenty four seven
on the scene
I'm Larger than life
Nightclubs cabarets
spotlights never turn away now
Larger than life
The meaning of the fame is getting
Lesser by the day
for me somehow
Larger than life
I lived half a century
aboding deep in vanities
Am I now wise
when I've learned all the traits
Of a fool

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