Larger Than Life - Sonata Arctica

作词：Toni Kakko

作曲：Toni Kakko

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 don't know

the role I'm cast cast）

It's all wrong but I 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