Tarja
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Shadow Play

Shadow Play lyrics by 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...

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Shadow Play

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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 ever 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 build 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

It left me terrified to lose

All I am living for

I want to leave

This place so wrong

It left me terrified to lose

All I am living for

Make me believe

I must go on

Life is a warning

Don't want to risk it anymore

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