Listen to the I tell a haunting dream I know so When walking home alone one my path revealed by Ahead I see an door with no idea in store I inside the door to see a hall of mirrors me I a breath and step inside a tale of love and pride The door slams shut, I to run And it seems my has begun...
I run and turn from side to with fear and panic in my The overwhelming me far as the eye can see I see myself in one I see the things that I have A forms of flattery the fear soon turns to in me
Different mirrors, different my strengths accentuate mirror has a name and face and all reflect me in way I look at them to see to my life by someone else The metaphors within the are the people that I met
at the man you see - in the mirrors The you can be - in the mirrors The of me revealed in the mirror's eye The mirror lies The fire in my - in the mirrors The rise - in the mirrors The power of comes alive in the mirrors
in the mirrors I behold All the greatest chapters of my ever told In the The is turned to gold
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At the end of the Hall of I behold a golden I all the beauty the other side must in store So I quickly reach out my To enter the room in this promised land I pull the door open To my journey, I step inside But it slams shut me, and I'm back outside The pouring welcomes me into the arms of the coldest, night
[II. The In The Storm]
The of the mirrors has faded away into memory As the rain keeps coming My extinguished I struggle to walk a path I see And the rain keeps coming
The darkness grows with step I cut it with a knife As the rain coming down I see a thing and I've never felt so in all my life But the rain keeps down...
Caught in the fury of the (The suffocates) and soul weary and worn (Another of fate) Never been so before (The ending of tale?) should have opened the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in storm Maybe this was the from the day I was born But in the hall of mirrors I had so high I cannot walk mile in this flood So resigned to my fate, I just in the mud If I cannot go on, I'll lay down and die
Suddenly a I see, shining in the distance I make my way toward it with my fading hope As I draw near, the is clear Though the rain beats its But I press on and pray this is a shelter the storm now toward the light I'm quickly moving This has given me new strength I thought I'd know But I take a step, and fall right For the ground's gone me And I behold, illuminated in the warm glow A dark chasm, a great A expanse of nothingness A pit has no bottom as far as the eye can see It the whole horizon, and there is no way across My lonely is shattered and all hope I had is lost
I'm startled to a hand on my shoulder I to see a shadowed figure standing in the rain But somehow I'm not of him when he speaks my name And somehow I can tell that he means me no by the peace that I see in his eyes And even though never even seen him before It's he's known me all my life "Why are you crying?" the stranger As I away the tears I point toward the abyss The of all my fears
"I must get and get to that light For it represents my only hope But when I saw the chasm, all that hope was I've spent so long in the and the rain That the sight of the light made my sing again But the so wide, and there's 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 pointed over the ledge And said, "Behold, I a bridge for you"
I cross the bridge toward the The stranger saved my tonight I turn to try to thank him, but gone A way to the other side I'll make my way my guide No time to waste, for I carry on
The bright light forth from behind A door beyond Blood and scratches mark the door from ages of I'm confused no more, for the door Is a weathered, old "All who would see reality, enter the of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Revealed]
As I inside I can see another A mirror so That my eyes turn away A mirror so I start to all the others And as I stand there in the Hall of my heart can only "Show me the truth, I know what to believe For the mirrors all showed something to me And my pride has way to misery I've so long in the dark and the rain That the sight of the light made my sing again And the stranger built a across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a rings out in thunder It all throughout the hall and me to my knees When the voice calls my I'm overcome fear and wonder
As I slowly to rise and face the great in front of me When I open my eyes, I have to close them But the image is burned into my mind... A face with as black as night A sight The flesh rotting away in and decay mangled by disease I'm unable to Tell me what manner of creature this be 'Cause not me
I run as fast as my feet will carry me Back to the door leading into the Even the storm that claimed my life was better this And so I throw open the and see a man (The of a man) The from the storm returns again (To me once again?) I see understanding in his (He's this all before) Maybe he can tell me I saw behind that door
"Tell me what I saw in the I ran away Tell me I saw in the mirror face 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 beheld in the me paralyzed Won't you me what I saw in the on this night?"
"The light from the you saw from afar The Mirror of shows all men as they are You the hall and you asked for the truth The man you saw in the mirror was you"
"No! Don't me the truth 'cause I want to believe the Mirror of Souls has revealed me And the face I saw reflected be me Dying and lost in the of decay I do not recognize the face I've seen And if you say my face I must disagree"
The meaning of things I saw: The is the holy eyes of God The unveiled before me with words of the stranger: "The you saw in the hall long ago mirrors of lies, not reflecting the soul When you look unto to see what they see You see an illusion, deception, reality"
I seen my soul in the mirror And it has me I have seen so much clearer I had ever seen "Can't you away all this sickness my soul and set me free? You can me...I believe" And then he said, "Arise, my our has made you reconciled Now gaze the Mirror once again" We together through the door And I looked in the glass more But the only one back was him Somehow the one in the mirror saw was him
in the Mirror of my Soul Staring at the man who my place and made me In the The Mirror of my