Listen to the I tell a dream I know so well When walking home one night my path by candlelight I see an open door with no what's in store I inside the door to see a of mirrors beckons me I a breath and step inside a tale of love and pride The door slams shut, I to run And it my journey has begun...
I run and turn from side to fear and panic in my eyes The overwhelming me far as the eye can see I see in every one I see the that I have done A thousand forms of the soon turns to haughtiness in me
mirrors, different shapes my strengths accentuate Each mirror has a name and and all reflect me in way I look at to see myself to judge my life by someone The metaphors within the mirrors are the people I met
Look at the man you see - in the The you can be - in the mirrors The glory of me revealed in the eye The never lies The fire in my - in the mirrors The rise - in the mirrors The of pride comes alive in the mirrors
Gazing in the I behold All the chapters of my story ever told In the The world is to gold
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At the end of the of Mirrors I a golden door I all the beauty the other side hold in store So I quickly out my hand To enter the next room in this promised I the giant door open To my journey, I step inside But it slams behind me, and I'm back outside The pouring rain me the arms of the coldest, blackest night
[II. The Stranger In The
The light of the mirrors has faded distant memory As the rain keeps coming My candle I struggle to walk a I cannot see And the rain coming down
The darkness grows with step I cut it with a knife As the keeps coming down I can't see a thing and I've never so alone in all my But the keeps coming down...
Caught in the of the storm (The suffocates) Body and weary and worn (Another of fate) been so afraid before (The ending of tale?) Never should opened the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in this this was the plan back the day I was born But in the hall of mirrors I had so high I walk another mile in this flood So to my fate, I just collapse in the mud If I cannot go on, just lay down and die
Suddenly a I see, shining in the distance I make my way toward it with my hope reborn As I draw near, the light is Though the rain beats its But I press on and this is a shelter from the storm Advancing now the light I'm moving forward This hope has given me new I thought I'd never But I take a step, and fall right For the ground's beneath me And I behold, in the light's warm glow A dark chasm, a great A vast expanse of A pit that has no as far as the eye can see It the whole horizon, and there is no way across My heart is shattered and all hope I had is lost
I'm startled to a hand on my shoulder I turn to see a shadowed figure in the rain But I'm not afraid of him when he speaks my name And somehow I can tell he means me no harm Just by the peace I see in his eyes And even though I've never even him before It's he's known me all my life "Why are you crying?" the asks As I wipe away the I toward the great abyss The of all my fears
"I must get across and get to light For it represents my only hope But when I saw the chasm, all that was lost I've spent so in the dark and the rain That the of the light made my heart sing again But the gulf's so wide, and no way across"
The smiled, and took my hand He said, "But you are wrong, my You cannot cross the yourself, that's true" He led me down the edge And just over the ledge And said, "Behold, I a bridge for you"
I cross the toward the light The stranger saved my tonight I to try to thank him, but he's gone A long way to the other I'll my way without my guide No time to waste, for I carry on
The bright light shines forth from A door beyond Blood and mark the door from ages of abuse I'm confused no more, for above the Is a weathered, old "All who would see reality, enter the of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Truth
As I inside I can see another A mirror so That my eyes must turn A so high I start to all the others And as I stand there in the of Truth my heart can say: "Show me the truth, I know what to believe For the mirrors all showed something to me And my pride has given way to I've spent so in the dark and the rain the sight of the light made my heart sing again And the stranger a bridge across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a rings out in thunder It echoes all throughout the and sends me to my When the calls my name I'm overcome with fear and
As I slowly to rise and face the great mirror in of me When I open my eyes, I to close them again But the image is burned into my mind... A face eyes as black as night A terrifying The flesh rotting in sickness and decay mangled by disease I'm to breathe Tell me manner of creature this could be 'Cause not me
I run away as fast as my feet will me Back to the door leading into the Even the storm that almost claimed my was than this And so I open the door and see a man (The of a man) The stranger from the storm returns (To save me again?) I see understanding in his (He's seen all before) he can tell me what I saw behind that door
"Tell me what I saw in the I ran away Tell me what I saw in the That of sickness and decay Tell me what I saw in the left me terrorized With the lifeless, eyes? Was it a the fiery waves? Was it the From beyond the Oh the face that I in the mirror me paralyzed Won't you me what I saw in the mirror on night?"
"The from the mirror you saw from afar The Mirror of shows all men as they are You the hall and you asked for the truth The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! show me the truth I don't want to believe What the Mirror of has unto me And the face I saw reflected be me and lost in the arms of decay I do not the face I've seen today And if you say my face I must disagree"
The meaning of things I saw: The mirror is the eyes of God The truth unveiled me with words of the stranger: "The mirrors you saw in the hall ago Were mirrors of lies, not reflecting the you look unto others to see what they see You see an illusion, deception, reality"
I have seen my soul in the And it has me I have seen myself so clearer I had ever seen "Can't you away all this sickness from my soul and set me You can me...I believe" And then he said, "Arise, my our has made you reconciled Now gaze into the Mirror again" We together through the door And I looked in the glass once But the one reflected back was him Somehow the only one in the saw was him
Gazing in the of my Soul at the man who took my place and me whole In the The Mirror of my