Larger Than Life-Sonata Arctica

[00:01.900]Larger Than Life -Sonata Arctica [00:47.80]I climb up on the stage [00:49.930]Wearing an old mans face [00:52.629]I've said those words a thousand times [00:58.719]I memorized the lines of Paris The Prince and Friar [01:04.699]I might one day play them too [01:10.739]To get here took its time I forgot to make a life [01:16.689]Between the scripted ones I knew [01:22.699]When admiration grew I was only loved by few [01:28.549]My true love and passion everyone knew [01:34.839]Hamlet in Lapland King Lear died in Vienna [01:45.19]Venice and Othello Madrid I am Henry the 8th [01:57.69]I am I am [01:58.649]We all shall one day become what we play [02:00.319]The marvelous magical bewildering array [02:02.269]Of trees and stones as we work our way up [02:06.89]To become these icons of lust and what not [02:08.369]""We live in the sin of self-indulgent larger than life [02:12.859]Yeah that's what I am [02:14.529]I am a goddamn Peter Pan maaaaaaan [02:16.798]But the one palace I won't grow up in [02:19.888]Staged a broken leg deep in my grave"" [02:22.938]When life becomes a play and I don't know the role [02:27.158]I'm cast it's all wrong out I cannot escape before the [02:32.738]Curtain call [02:35.828]One last time build myself a wall to cry on [02:40.918]To hide in plain view [02:43.458]I will fall deeper into the role written [02:48.458]In a drunken haze it seems by the Shakespeare in me [02:55.898]Stage film and television [02:57.508]Twenty-four seven on the scene I'm [03:01.348]Larger than life [03:02.598]Nightclubs cabarets spotlights never turn away now [03:07.218]Larger than life [03:08.438]The meaning of the fame is getting [03:10.08]Lesser by the day for me somehow [03:13.228]Larger than life [03:14.168]My friends all have families [03:15.398]Who now have their families [03:16.858]I lived half a century aboding deep in vanities [03:19.518]Am I now wise when I've learned all the traits [03:22.828]Of a fool [03:23.778]The mirror now cries ageless mask fades to true life [03:35.188]To taste the immortal grace I lived the role I played [03:40.718]Alone in a golden cage [05:11.416]Life is what we make of it sometimes sometimes [05:25.406]Sometimes we just want to play [05:31.746]So don't take life so seriously [05:34.416]Play love have fun leave misery be [05:37.666]Regrets are built in a cold dark cage [05:40.786]Where nothing ever happens [05:42.66]Where nothing ever happens [05:44.66]So don't take life so seriously [05:55.315]Where nothing ever happens [05:57.735]Where nothing ever happens [05:58.955]Where nothing ever happens [06:15.245]I climb down from the stage [06:18.435]Remove the young man's face [06:21.245]And underneath reveal a sage [06:27.225]""Young man you play my role [06:30.75]Breath life into that soul [06:33.215]Prepare to live a thousand lives [06:42.375]Now when you think it's all over you find love [06:53.145]A flower starts to bloom a chapter starts anew [06:59.135]The greatest moment in life [07:05.125]Mirror still lies time's a cruel silent landslide [07:17.205]It builds you up within destroys the shell you're in [07:22.795]And everything will fall into place [07:29.285]When life becomes a play [07:31.85]And I don't know the role I'm cast cast） [07:34.974]It's all wrong but I cannot [07:37.564]Escape before the curtain call [07:41.904]One last time build yourself a wall to cry on [07:47.184]For anybody to see [07:49.504]You will fall deeper into the role you wrote in a drunken [07:54.924]Haze it seems with the Shakespeare within [08:02.92]Stage film and television twenty four seven on the [08:04.762]On the scene I'm [08:07.352]Larger than life [08:08.282]Nightclubs cabarets spotlights never turn away now [08:13.372]Larger than life [08:14.342]The meaning of the fame is getting [08:15.812]Lesser by the day for me somehow [08:19.360]Larger than life [08:20.540]I lived half a century aboding deep in vanities [08:22.960]Am I now wise when I've learned all the traits [08:25.710]Of a fool