Shadow Play - Tarja

Looking at the mirror, asking questions with old, weary eyes

Once a girl who had no name dressed as an angel in disguise

From the corner of her bedroom, light illuminates

Crawling shadows, cut out silhouettes

With the darkness, a dancing marionette

Smiled away with such a beauty never seen before

Drowned by rain of thorns and petals falling at her curtain call

This mortal coil year after year recalled a sad charade

Like a shadow play we can’t forget

In the darkness, a crying marionette

Make me believe, I must go on

Life is a warning, don’t want to risk it anymore

I want to leave this place so wrong

It left me terrified to lose all I am living for

Alone, imprisoned by the echoes of the empty hall

She made a deal with the enemy and let her fences fall

From the dust she built a door to frame new memories

Once a shadow, dancing with her fears

Lights the darkness, now the puppeteer

Make me believe, I must go on

Life is a warning, don’t want to risk it anymore

I want to leave this place so wrong

It left me terrified to lose all I am living for

There’s a world inside, we are holding the keys

One day at a time, not trying to please

Tell me of anything that is lasting forever

You are your thoughts

What are we waiting for?

Make me believe, I must go on

Life is a warning, don’t want to risk it anymore

I want to leave this place so wrong (This place so wrong)

It left me terrified to lose all I am living for (Living for)

I want to leave this place so wrong (This place so wrong)

It left me terrified to lose all I am living for (Living for)

Make me believe, I must go on

Life is a warning, don’t want to risk it anymore