Sonata Arctica - 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 it's 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
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 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 trait's 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
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 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 trait's of a fool?