Larger Than Life - Sonata Arctica

I climb up on the stage

Wearing an old mans 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 maaaaaaan

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 out 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 into the role written

In a drunken haze it seems by the 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

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

Breath 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's a 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 cast (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 into the role you wrote in a drunken

Haze it seems with the Shakespeare within

Stage film and television twenty four seven on the

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