The lights come on      The set is down   The curtain's flown away   To all you creatures of the night   I say it's time we play      We'll show you things      That in your life   You'd never dreamed you'd know   So now before the ghosts arrive   It's welcome to the show      Minstrels, kings, explorers   Fantasies on order   Ghosts and dreams awakened   Stories long forsakened      The minstrel and the sorcerer   Are switching their disguise      The jester drinks and starts to think      That he alone is wise      The governor and journalist   Exchange a judas kiss   And now before the song is done   The plot begins to twist      Ghosts and lost explorers   Fate with all her daughters   Saints and hopeless sinners   Wise men in their winters   Know      Welcome to the show   Welcome to the show   Welcome to the show   Welcome to the show      His life was nearly over   As he stood upon the beach   Thinking about death and the ocean   While still safely out of reach      And he held there in his hand   A well worn hourglass   And though the sand was still inside      Soon this too would pass      Then he knelt to touch the water   Where the waves would gently fall   Thinking here I touch the ocean   And the ocean touches all      For from a line of countless sailors   He was the last man of his kind   And the world had changed around him   He had no mountains left to climb      And his last name was Magellan   A descendant of the same      Or so he said in late night bars      Though few believed his claim      And so he now talked with the ocean   As he had often done before   But now the waves spoke back to him   As he walked along the shore      For eighty years plus seven   He had been upon this earth   And all of them but eight   He'd spent on that ocean since his birth      But he was not the only one   Who walked along this coast   There was a lady old and pale   To some nearly a ghost      She had once been a great beauty   It was rumored in some bars   When she'd left here many years before   To become a movie star      But every wish is not to be   Ahh this in time she learned   And when her final chance had passed   Back here she had returned      And everyday at six o'clock      She came to a small cafe   And had herself a glass of wine   And then she'd walk away      To others she was gray and old   Not the beauty she'd been before   But it did not matter what she was   What mattered was what he saw      And so for near three years now   He'd watch her everyday   And though they always were so close      He felt so far away      For he could never quite arrange      The words inside his mind   That he could say to make her stay   And he was running out of time      He could not find the words to say   To such a work of dreams   And so he watched her walk away   And always stayed unseen