John William "Will" Ferrell (/ˈfɛrəl/; born July 16, 1967) is an American comedian, impressionist, actor, and writer. Ferrell first established himself in the mid 1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films Old School, Elf, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction, Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, and The Other Guys. He is considered a member of the "Frat Pack", a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors who emerged in the late 1990s and the 2000s, including Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Steve Carell, Vince Vaughn, and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson.
Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, the son of Betty Kay (née Overman), a teacher who taught at Old Mill School elementary school and Santa Ana College, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician with The Righteous Brothers. His parents were both natives of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, and moved to California in 1964; Ferrell has Irish ancestry. Ferrell has a younger brother, Patrick. When he was 8, his parents divorced. Ferrell said of the divorce, "I was the type of kid who would say, 'Hey Look at the bright side! We'll have two Christmases.'" The divorce was amicable and both parents were committed to their children. The biggest problem was Lee's line of work. As a person in show business, his paychecks were never steady and he was gone from home months at a time. Growing up in the environment made Ferrell not want to go into show business, but get a steady job.
From a far off galaxy
I hear you calling me
We are on an odyssey
Through the realms of time and space
In that enchanted place
You and I come face to face
Once upon not yet
Long ago someday
Countless times we've met
Met along the way
Through the luminescent night
On beams of neon light
You and I in winged flight
As we cross the starry sea
Powered by what we see
Now and then, the victory
Once upon not yet
Long ago someday
Countless times we've met
Met along the way
There's a child in a sundress looking at a rainy sky
There's a place in the desert where an ocean once danced by
There's a song in the silence weaving in and out of time
We are notes in the music searching for remembered rhyme
On a mountain high somewhere
Where only heroes dare
Stand the stallion and the mare
We have been and we shall be
Each other's destiny
One another's odyssey
Once upon not yet
Long ago someday
Countless times we've met
Met along the way
We've met along the way
White skies roar with battle cries
Haters meet, lovers die
And I wait for your touch now
My flesh in yours and yours in mine
Once again I am raising my blade
This time we face each other
By these hands - untouched
By these lips - unspoken
Every heart - a jewel
Every heart - a stronghold
Skies come down!
White skies roar with battle cries
Haters meet, lovers die
And I wait for your love now
We came so close, too close to turn back
Once again I have my life in your hands
It's brothers against brothers
By these hands - untouched
By these lips - unspoken
Every heart - a jewel
Every heart - a stronghold
Skies come down!
White skies roar with battle cries
Take one to the mountain
Take one to the sea
Take one to the belly of the beast
and then you'll take one with me
Shut it, shut it on
Freezing in the fires
when I utter howl your name
once you return from the belly of the beast
you're never quite the same
Shut it, shut it on,
Shut it, shut it on,
fire on the mountain
and it rages inside of your soul
the fire inside the belly of the beast
well it thunderizes your soul