Larger Than Life lyrics

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, 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 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 abiding 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

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 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 Shakespeare within

Stage, film and television, twenty four seven on the...

• Artist:Sonata Arctica
• Album:Pariah's Child