Adrian Anthony Lester, OBE (born 14 August 1968) is an English actor, director, and writer.
Lester was born in Birmingham, West Midlands, the son of Jamaican immigrants Monica, a medical secretary, and Reginald, a manager for a contract cleaning company. From the age of nine, Lester sang as a boy treble in the choir of St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham. At 14, he began acting with the Birmingham Youth Theatre. After leaving Archbishop Masterson RC School, he attended Joseph Chamberlain VI Form College for one year, before completing three years of training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Lester received an Ian Charleson Award commendation and a Time Out Award for his 1991 performance as Rosalind in Cheek by Jowl's all-male production of As You Like It. In 1993, he played Anthony Hope in the National Theatre's production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He has also appeared on stage in the musical Company, for which he won an Olivier Award, and in the title role of Hamlet (Carlton TV Theatre Award).
In a world of eternal darkness
At a place of long lost innocence
They obey someone else's master
They're just puppets on a broken string
In a time of undying fury
This creation is bound to fail
Down in hell, there's no gold, no glory
Hear the children as they start to pray
And hear the voices of anger
Screaming - Please unlock these chains!
We beg you, have mercy
We will cede you - The key to the undying world
Sombre days, yet a cryptic kingdom
Nothing lives, nothing breathes no more
All their lives they have reached for heaven
In silent prayers, they have lost their fear
They will arise from severe oppression
Out of the ashes they will rise once more
And then the light will prevail the darkness
Raise the flag and let us close this door!
Here the voices of anger screaming
Please unlock these chains
We beg you, have mercy
We will cede you
The key to the undying world
And hear the voices of anger
Screaming - Please unlock these chains!
We beg you, have mercy
We will cede you - The key to the undying world
And hear the voices of anger
Screaming - Please unlock these chains!
We beg you, have mercy
We will cede you - The key to the undying world
Voices of anger
Screaming - Please unlock these chains!
We beg you, have mercy