Larger Than Life chords by Sonata Arctica

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
G#G#  G# minorG#m F#F# BB
E MajorE  G# minorG#m F#F# BB
G# minorG#m F#F#  BB  E MajorE
F#F#  BB  E MajorE  F#F# E MajorE


Verse 1:
BB         C#C#
I climb up on the stage
           G# minorG#m
Wearing an old man’s face
            C#C#
I've said those words a thousand times
BB        C#C#               G# minorG#m
I memorized the lines of Paris, The Prince and Friar
        C#C#
I might one day play them too

BB          C#C#            G# minorG#m
To get here took its time, I forgot to make a life
           C#C#
Between the scripted ones I knew
BB        C#C#            G# minorG#m
When admiration grew I was only loved by few
         C#C#
My true love and passion - everyone knew

Verse 2:
E MajorE     F#F# BB     E MajorE      F#F# BB
Hamlet in Lapland, King Lear died in Vienna
E MajorE     F#F# BB    E MajorE     F#F#    BB
Venice and Othello, Madrid I am Henry the 8th


Verse 3:
  C# minorC#m
We all shall one day become what we play
  A minorAm
The marvelous, magical, bewildering array
  C# minorC#m
Of trees and stones as we work our way up
  A minorAm
To become these icons of lust and what not

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

Yeah, that's what I am!
        C# minorC#m
I am a goddamn Peter Pan, maaaaaaan!
      A minorAm
But the one palace I won't grow up in
                D#D#
Staged a broken leg deep in my grave"

Pre-Chorus:
          G# minorG#m       F#F#
When life becomes a play and I don't know the role
  BB       D#D#         G# minorG#m
I'm cast it's all wrong out I cannot escape before the
F#F#     BB
Curtain call
     D#D#         G# minorG#m
One last time build myself a wall to cry on,
  F#F#      BB
To hide in plain view
    D#D#          G# minorG#m
I will fall deeper into the role written
F#F#  BB        E MajorE        F#F#    E MajorE
In a drunken haze, it seems, by Shakespeare in me


Chorus:
G# minorG#m
Stage, film and television,
BB            E MajorE
Twenty-four seven on the scene, I'm
      G# minorG#m
Larger than life…
           BB           E MajorE
Nightclubs, cabarets, spotlights never turn away now
      F#F#
Larger than life…

The meaning of the fame is getting
D#mD#m           E MajorE
Lesser by the day for me somehow
      G# minorG#m
Larger than life…

My friends all have families
BB
Who now have their families
 G# minorG#m         BB
I lived half a century abiding deep in vanities
G# minorG#m      BB
A minorAm I now wise, when I've learned all the traits

Of a fool?


Verse 4:
  F#F#     A#mA#m      F#F#      A#mA#m
The mirror now cries, ageless mask fades to true life
  G#G#         C#C#            F#F#
To taste the immortal grace I lived the role I played
D#mD#m    C#C#   F#F#
Alone in a golden cage


Instrumental:
AbAb C minorCm  AbAb C minorCm
F#F# A#mA#m F#F# A#mA#m
E MajorE  G# minorG#m E MajorE  G# minorG#m
D MajorD  F# minorF#m D MajorD  F# minorF#m
C majorC  E minorEm  C majorC  E minorEm
E MajorE  G# minorG#m E MajorE  G# minorG#m
F#F# BB  BB  E MajorE  C# minorC#m BB E MajorE


Verse 5:
G# minorG#m  F#F# BB        E MajorE   G# minorG#m  F#F# BB
Life is what we make of it sometimes, sometimes,
  G# minorG#m  F#F#   BB    E MajorE
Sometimes we just want to play


Bridge:
E MajorE
So don't take life so seriously
   F#F#          BB
Play, love, have fun, leave misery be
  E MajorE
Regrets are built in a cold dark cage
E MajorE
Where nothing ever happens
E MajorE
Where nothing ever happens
E MajorE
So don't take life so seriously
   F#F#          BB
Play, love, have fun, leave misery be
  E MajorE
Regrets are built in a cold dark cage
E MajorE
Where nothing ever happens
E MajorE
Where nothing ever happens
E MajorE
Where nothing ever happens…
E MajorE
Where nothing ever happens…
E MajorE
Where nothing ever happens...


Verse 6:
  BB         C#C#
I climb down from the stage
            G# minorG#m
Remove the young man's face
        C#C#
And underneath reveal a sage
BB            C#C#
"Young man, you play my role
            G# minorG#m
Breathe life into that soul
         C#C#
Prepare to live a thousand lives"


Verse 7:
E MajorE  BB    G# minorG#m      E MajorE     G# minorG#m
Now when you think it's all over, you find love
 F#F#        BB    BB        E MajorE
A augmentedA flower starts to bloom, a chapter starts anew
  C# minorC#m   BB     E MajorE
The greatest moment in life


Verse 8:
F#F#      A#mA#m      F#F#      A#mA#m
Mirror still lies, time is cruel, silent landslide
  G#G#       C#C#  C#C#            F#F#
It builds you up within, destroys the shell you're in
  D#mD#m       C#C#    D#mD#m
And everything will fall into place


Pre-Chorus:
D#D#         G# minorG#m
When life becomes a play
      F#F#        BB
And I don't know the role I'm cast
     D#D#
It's all wrong, but I cannot
 G# minorG#m       F#F#     BB
Escape before the curtain call
     D#D#           G# minorG#m
One last time, build yourself a wall to cry on,
F#F#       BB
For anybody to see
     D#D#          G# minorG#m         BB
You will fall deeper into the role you wrote in a drunken
     E MajorE      F#F#       E MajorE
Haze, it seems, with Shakespeare within


Chorus:
G# minorG#m
Stage, film and television,
BB            E MajorE
Twenty-four seven on the scene, I'm
      G# minorG#m
Larger than life…
           BB           E MajorE
Nightclubs, cabarets, spotlights never turn away now
      F#F#
Larger than life…

The meaning of the fame is getting
D#mD#m           E MajorE
Lesser by the day for me somehow
      G# minorG#m
Larger than life…
            BB
I lived half a century abiding deep in vanities
G# minorG#m      BB
A minorAm I now wise, when I've learned all the traits
   AbAb
Of a fool?


Outro:
C minorCm AbAb  C minorCm
F#F# A#mA#m F#F# A#mA#m
E MajorE  G# minorG#m E MajorE G# minorG#m
D MajorD  F# minorF#m D MajorD F# minorF#m
C majorC  E minorEm  C majorC E minorEm
E MajorE  G# minorG#m E MajorE G# minorG#m
F#F# BB  G# minorG#m

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