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I climb up on the stage |
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Wearing an old mans face |
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I've said those words a thousand times |
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I memorized the lines of Paris, The Prince and Friar |
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I might one day play them too |
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To get here took its time, I forgot to make a life |
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Between the scripted ones I knew |
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When admiration grew I was only loved by few |
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My true love and passion - everyone knew |
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Hamlet in Lapland, King Lear died in Vienna |
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Venice and Othello, Madrid I am Henry the 8th |
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I am, I am |
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We all shall one day become what we play |
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The marvelous, magical, bewildering array |
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Of trees and stones as we work our way up |
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To become these icons of lust and what not |
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"We live in the sin of self-indulgent... larger than life |
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Yeah, that's what I am! |
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I am a goddamn Peter Pan, maaaaaaan! |
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But the one palace I won't grow up in |
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staged a broken leg deep in my grave" |
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When life becomes a play and I don't know the role |
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I'm cast it's all wrong out I cannot escape before the |
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Curtain call. |
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One last time build myself a wall to cry on, |
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To hide in plain view |
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I will fall deeper into the role written |
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In a drunken haze, it seems, by the Shakespeare in me |
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Stage, film and television, |
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Twenty-four seven on the scene, I'm |
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Larger than life... |
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Nightclubs, cabarets, spotlights never turn away now |
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Larger than life... |
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The meaning of the fame is getting |
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lesser by the day for me somehow |
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Larger than life... |
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My friends all have families |
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Who now have their families |
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I lived half a century aboding deep in vanities |
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Am I now wise, when I've learned all the traits |
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Of a fool? |
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The mirror now cries, ageless mask fades to true life |
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To taste the immortal grace I lived the role I played |
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Alone in a golden cage |
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Life is what we make of it sometimes, sometimes, |
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Sometimes we just want to play |
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So don't take life so seriously |
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Play, love, have fun, leave misery be |
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Regrets are built in a cold dark cage |
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Where nothing ever happens |
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Where nothing ever happens |
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So don't take life so seriously |
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Where nothing ever happens... |
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Where nothing ever happens... |
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Where nothing ever happens... |
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I climb down from the stage |
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Remove the young man's face |
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And underneath reveal a sage |
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"Young man, you play my role |
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Breath life into that soul |
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Prepare to live a thousand lives" |
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Now when you think it's all over, you find love |
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A flower starts to bloom, a chapter starts anew |
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The greatest moment in life |
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Mirror still lies, time's a cruel, silent landslide |
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It builds you up within, destroys the shell you're in |
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And everything will fall into place |
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When life becomes a play |
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And I (you) don't know the role I'm cast (you're cast) |
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It's all wrong, but I (you) cannot |
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Escape before the curtain call |
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One last time, build yourself a wall to cry on, |
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For anybody to see |
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You will fall deeper into the role you wrote in a drunken |
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Haze, it seems, with the Shakespeare within |
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Stage, film and television, twenty four seven on the... |