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[Your Midnight Role Model]

Within Temptation - Paradise

The lights go off as the cellos resonate through the arena, with the exception of two sets on each side of the ramp, switching between one another with every note. As the violins join, spotlights show the silhouette of a man in the middle of the entrance ramp, surrounded with smoke. The man is simply standing with his arms in front of his face, forming an "X".

As the other instruments kick in, he extends his arm, revealing himself as Marxx. He raises his fist in the air and starts walking towards the ring.

There's no sense
The fire burns
When wisdom fails, it changes all
The wheel embodies all that keeps on turning

Marxx takes a brief moment in the middle of the stage ramp to give high fives and handshakes to the nearest fans.

Blood red skies, I feel so cold
No innocence, we play our role
The wheel embodies all, where are we going?

[Residing in New York City… The Midnight Role Model, Marxx!]

As he approaches from the ring, Marxx walks around it, stopping on the side. He sat on the apron, posing for the fans at ringside, and then laid down to roll inside.

All in all you'd expect the wise to be wiser
Fallen from grace all and all I guess
We should have known better 'cause

Now that one side got the posing treatment, he had to go on the other side and give them something as well. So he ran to the other side and put his feet on the first and second ropes as he did his signature motion, aka a cross with his arms in fromt of his face before extending them on each side.

What about us,
Isn't it enough?
No we're not in paradise
This is who we are
This is what we've got
No, it's not our paradise

Then, after he finished posing, he walked to his corner where he cracked his knuckles and stretched his arms, getting ready for his match.

But it's all we want
And it's all that we're fighting for
Though it's not paradise

[MARXX]