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! 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! 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, 24/7 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! 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, breathe life into that soul. Prepare to live a thousand lives. Now when you think it's all 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 you don't know the role you're cast. It's all wrong but 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 in me. Stage, film and television, 24/7 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, abiding deep in vanities. Am I now wise, when I've learned all the traits of a fool?