[Intro] [Soft piano melody in 3/4 time] [Violins swelling slowly] [Distant orchestral chime] [Verse 1] [Male vocals: intimate and deep] [Minimalist arrangement: piano and vocals only] STEP to the LIGHT on the STAGE, BREAK from the BARS of the CAGE. PAINT on a SMILE for the CROWD, HID-ing the GHOST in a SHROUD. [Cello enters warmly] TURN-ing a-ROUND in a DANCE, LOST in a MER-ci-less TRANCE. [Verse 2] [Full string section starts] [Light acoustic guitar strumming] [Minimalist arrangement: piano and vocals only]. COLD is the POR-ce-lain SKIN, WALL-ing the DARK-ness with-IN. GOLD is the CROWN that I BEAR, POI-son is FILL-ing the AIR. [Building tension] YOU see the KING and the THRONE, I am just HOLL-ow and LONE. [Pre-Chorus] [Orchestra grows louder] [Timpani rolls building up] LOOK in the GLASS and it CRACKS, NO way of TURN-ing the TRACKS. [Chorus] [Majestic Orchestral Rock explosion] [Soaring, emotional vocals] The MASK I WEAR – it is MADE of STONE! The MASK I WEAR – I am ALL a-LONE! A THE-a-ter PIECE, a HO-ly de-CEIT, The HEART of a SLAVE with a ROY-al BEAT. The MASK I WEAR... is ALL you can SEE, While DEEP in the DARK... there is NO-thing of ME. [Bridge] [Music drops to a single haunting violin] [Vocals: intense, building to a peak] TEAR it OFF! LET me BREATHE! SHOW what is HID-den be-NEATH! [Grand orchestral crash: Final climax] [Outro] [Soft piano and cello return] [Vocals: fading whisper] JUST a de-VICE... COLD as the ICE... The MASK... stays... ON... [Bridge: Atmospheric transition to silence] [Solo Violin: Mourful, slow, long sustained notes] [Reverb tail: 10 seconds] [Last violin note fading into silence] [End]