Sonata Arctica – Larger Than Life (Guitar)

G#m               C#
I climb up on the stage

                     G#m
Wearing an old man’s face

                        C#
I've said those words a thousand times

G#m             C#                             G#m
I memorized the lines of Paris, The Prince and Friar

               C#
I might one day play them too

G#m                  C#                       G#m
To get here took its time, I forgot to make a life

                     C#
Between the scripted ones I knew

G#m             C#                       G#m
When admiration grew I was only loved by few

                 C#
My true love and passion - everyone knew

E         F# B          E            F# B
Hamlet in Lapland, King Lear died in Vienna

E          F# B       E         F#        B
Venice and Othello, Madrid I am Henry the 8th

   C#m
We all shall one day become what we play

    Am
The marvelous, magical, bewildering array

   C#m
Of trees and stones as we work our way up

   Am
To become these icons of lust and what not

    C#m                                Am
"We live in the sin of self-indulgent... larger than life

               C#m
I am a goddamn Peter Pan, maaaaaaan!

            Am
But the one palace I won't grow up in

                               D#
Staged a broken leg deep in my grave"

                    G#m              F#
When life becomes a play and I don't know the role

    B             D#                 G#m
I'm cast it's all wrong out I cannot escape before the

F#          B
Curtain call

         D#                 G#m
One last time build myself a wall to cry on,

   F#            B
To hide in plain view

       D#                   G#m
I will fall deeper into the role written

F#   B                E               F#       E
In a drunken haze, it seems, by Shakespeare in me

G#m
Stage, film and television,

B                        E
Twenty-four seven on the scene, I'm

            G#m
Larger than life…

                      B                     E
Nightclubs, cabarets, spotlights never turn away now

            F#
Larger than life…

D#m                      E
Lesser by the day for me somehow

            G#m
Larger than life…

B
Who now have their families

  G#m                  B
I lived half a century abiding deep in vanities

G#m            B
Am I now wise, when I've learned all the traits

    F#         A#m            F#            A#m
The mirror now cries, ageless mask fades to true life

   G#                 C#                       F#
To taste the immortal grace I lived the role I played

D#m        C#     F#
Alone in a golden cage

G#m   F#  B               E      G#m    F#  B
Life  is  what we make of it sometimes, sometimes,

    G#m   F#      B       E
Sometimes we just want to play

E
So don't take life so seriously

      F#                    B
Play, love, have fun, leave misery be

   E
Regrets are built in a cold dark cage

E
Where nothing ever happens

E
Where nothing ever happens

E
So don't take life so seriously

      F#                    B
Play, love, have fun, leave misery be

   E
Regrets are built in a cold dark cage

E
Where nothing ever happens

E
Where nothing ever happens

E
Where nothing ever happens…

E
Where nothing ever happens…

E
Where nothing ever happens...

   G#m                C#
I climb down from the stage

                       G#m
Remove the young man's face

               C#
And underneath reveal a sage

G#m                     C#
"Young man, you play my role

                       G#m
Breathe life into that soul

                  C#
Prepare to live a thousand lives"

E   B        G#m            E         G#m
Now when you think it's all over, you find love

  F#               B        B               E
A flower starts to bloom, a chapter starts anew

    C#m      B         E
The greatest moment in life

F#           A#m           F#            A#m
Mirror still lies, time is cruel, silent landslide

   G#              C#    C#                        F#
It builds you up within, destroys the shell you're in

    D#m             C#        D#m
And everything will fall into place

D#                  G#m
When life becomes a play

            F#                B
And I don't know the role I'm cast

         D#
It's all wrong, but I cannot

  G#m             F#          B
Escape before the curtain call

         D#                     G#m
One last time, build yourself a wall to cry on,

F#             B
For anybody to see

         D#                   G#m                 B
You will fall deeper into the role you wrote in a drunken

         E           F#             E
Haze, it seems, with Shakespeare within

G#m
Stage, film and television,

B                        E
Twenty-four seven on the scene, I'm

            G#m
Larger than life…

                      B                     E
Nightclubs, cabarets, spotlights never turn away now

            F#
Larger than life…

D#m                      E
Lesser by the day for me somehow

            G#m
Larger than life…

                       B
I lived half a century abiding deep in vanities

G#m            B
Am I now wise, when I've learned all the traits

     Ab
Of a fool?