Listen to the I tell a haunting I know so well walking home alone one night my path revealed by Ahead I see an door with no idea in store I glance inside the to see a hall of mirrors me I take a breath and inside a tale of love and shattered The door shut, I start to run And it my journey has begun...
I run and turn from to side with and panic in my eyes The vastness me far as the eye can see I see in every one I see the things I have done A thousand of flattery the soon turns to haughtiness in me
Different mirrors, different my strengths accentuate Each has a name and face and all me in some way I at them to see myself to judge my by someone else The within replete: the are the people that 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 mirror never The fire in my eyes - in the The vanity - in the mirrors The power of pride comes in the mirrors
Gazing in the mirrors I 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 behold a golden I all the beauty the other side must hold in So I quickly out my hand To the next room in this promised land I pull the giant door To my journey, I step inside But it slams shut 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 into memory As the rain keeps down My candle I to walk a path I cannot see And the rain keeps coming
The darkness with every step I cut it with a knife As the keeps coming down I see a thing and I've never felt so in all my life But the rain coming down...
in the fury of the storm (The suffocates) Body and soul weary and (Another of fate) been so afraid before (The of this tale?) Never should have the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in this Maybe this was the back the day I was born But in the hall of mirrors I had so high I cannot walk another mile in flood So resigned to my fate, I collapse in the mud If I go on, I'll just lay down and die
a light I see, shining in the distance I make my way toward it with my hope reborn As I near, the light is clear the rain beats its resistance But I press on and this is a shelter from the storm Advancing now toward the I'm moving forward This hope has me new strength I thought I'd know But I take a step, and right back For the gone beneath me And I behold, in the light's warm glow A chasm, a great abyss A expanse of nothingness A pit has no bottom as far as the eye can see It spans the whole horizon, and there is no way My lonely is shattered and all hope I had is lost
I'm startled to feel a on my shoulder I turn to see a shadowed figure in the rain But somehow I'm not of him Even he speaks my name And somehow I can tell he means me no harm Just by the that I see in his eyes And even I've never even seen him before It's like he's me all my life "Why are you crying?" the asks As I wipe the tears I toward the great abyss The of all my fears
"I get across and get to that light For it represents my hope tonight But when I saw the chasm, all that was lost spent so long in the dark and the rain That the sight of the light made my heart sing But the so wide, and there's no way across"
The stranger smiled, and took my He said, "But you are wrong, my You cross the gulf yourself, that's true" He led me toward the edge And pointed just the ledge And said, "Behold, I built a for you"
I cross the bridge toward the The saved my life tonight I turn to try to thank him, but gone A long way to the other I'll my way without my guide No to waste, for I must carry on
The bright light forth from behind A beyond description Blood and scratches the door from ages of abuse I'm confused no more, for the door Is a weathered, old "All who would see reality, the Hall of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Revealed]
As I step I can see mirror A so bright That my eyes must away A so high I to question all the others And as I stand there in the of Truth my can only say: "Show me the truth, I don't 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 bridge for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a rings out in paralyzing It all throughout the hall and me to my knees When the calls my name I'm overcome with and wonder
As I slowly start to and face the great mirror in of me When I open my eyes, I have to close again But still the image is into my mind... A face with eyes as as night A sight The flesh away in sickness and decay mangled by disease I'm unable to Tell me what manner of creature this be it's not me
I run as fast as my feet will carry me Back to the door leading into the Even the storm almost claimed my life was better than And so I open the door and see a man (The of a man) The from the storm returns again (To me once again?) I see in his eyes (He's this all before) Maybe he can me what I saw behind that door
"Tell me what I saw in the Before I ran Tell me I saw in the mirror That of sickness and decay Tell me what I saw in the That me terrorized With the lifeless, blackened Was it a the fiery waves? Was it the beyond the grave? Oh the face I beheld in the mirror left me Won't you tell me I saw in the mirror on night?"
"The light from the you saw from afar The Mirror of Souls shows all men as are You the hall and you asked for the truth The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! show me the truth 'cause I don't to believe the Mirror of Souls has unto me And the I saw reflected cannot be me Dying and in the arms of decay I do not recognize the I've seen today And if you say that's my I must disagree"
The meaning of these things I The is the holy eyes of God The truth before me with words of the stranger: "The mirrors you saw in the long ago Were mirrors of lies, not reflecting the When you look unto to see what they see You see an illusion, deception, reality"
I have seen my in the mirror And it has me I have seen myself so clearer Than I had ever "Can't you take all this sickness my soul and set me free? You can me...I believe" And then he said, "Arise, my our faith has made you Now gaze into the once again" We walked together through the And I looked in the glass once But the one reflected back was him Somehow the one in the mirror saw was him
in the Mirror of my Soul Staring at the man who took my and me whole In the The Mirror of my