Listen to the tale I a dream I know so well When walking alone one night my revealed by candlelight Ahead I see an door no idea what's in store I glance the door to see a of mirrors beckons me I take a breath and step a tale of love and shattered 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 vastness me far as the eye can see I see myself in one I see the things that I done A thousand of flattery the fear soon to haughtiness in me
Different mirrors, shapes my different accentuate mirror has a name and face and all reflect me in way I look at to see myself to judge my life by someone The metaphors within the are the people that I met
Look at the man you see - in the The things you can be - in the The glory of me revealed in the eye The never lies The fire in my - in the mirrors The vanity - in the mirrors The power of pride comes alive in the
in the mirrors I behold All the greatest chapters of my story ever In the The world is to gold
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At the end of the of Mirrors I a golden door I imagine all the the other side hold in store So I reach out my hand To enter the next room in this land I the giant door open To my journey, I step inside But it slams shut behind me, and I'm outside The pouring rain me into the arms of the coldest, blackest
[II. The Stranger In The
The light of the has faded away into memory As the rain keeps coming My extinguished I struggle to walk a I cannot see And the rain keeps coming
The darkness with every step I could cut it with a As the rain keeps coming I can't see a and I've never felt so in all my life But the rain coming down...
Caught in the fury of the (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 from the day I was But in the of mirrors I had felt so high I cannot another mile in this flood So resigned to my fate, I collapse in the mud If I cannot go on, I'll 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 Though the beats its resistance But I press on and pray this is a shelter the storm Advancing now the light I'm moving forward This hope has me new strength I thought I'd never But I take a step, and fall right For the ground's gone me And I behold, illuminated in the light's warm A dark chasm, a abyss A vast expanse of A pit has no bottom as far as the eye can see It spans the horizon, and there is no way across 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 that he me no harm Just by the peace that I see in his And even though I've never even seen him like he's known me all my life "Why are you crying?" the stranger As I wipe away the I point toward the great The of all my fears
"I must get across and get to that For it represents my only tonight 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 heart 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 toward the And pointed just over the And said, "Behold, I a bridge for you"
I the bridge toward the light The saved my life tonight I turn to try to him, but he's gone A long way to the other I'll make my way my guide No time to waste, for I must on
The bright light shines forth behind A door description Blood and scratches mark the door from ages of I'm confused no more, for above the Is a weathered, old "All who would see reality, the Hall of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Truth
As I inside I can see another A mirror so my eyes must turn away A so high I to question 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 something different 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 heart again And the stranger built a across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a rings out in paralyzing It all throughout the hall and sends me to my the voice calls my name I'm with fear and wonder
As I start to rise and face the great in front of me When I open my eyes, I to close them again But still the image is into my mind... A with eyes as black as night A terrifying The flesh rotting away in and decay It's mangled by I'm to breathe Tell me manner of creature this could be it's not me
I run away as fast as my feet will me Back to the door leading the night Even the storm that almost my life was than this And so I throw open the and see a man (The of a man) The stranger the storm returns again (To save me again?) I see in his eyes (He's seen all before) Maybe he can tell me what I saw behind door
"Tell me I saw in the mirror I ran away Tell me I saw in the mirror That face of sickness and Tell me I saw in the mirror left me terrorized With the lifeless, blackened Was it a From the fiery Was it the From beyond the Oh the face that I in the mirror me paralyzed Won't you tell me I saw in the mirror on night?"
"The light from the mirror you saw from The Mirror of shows all men as they are You entered the hall and you asked for the The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! show me the truth 'cause I don't want to What the of Souls has unto me And the face I saw reflected be me Dying and lost in the arms of I do not recognize the face I've seen And if you say that's my face I disagree"
The meaning of these I saw: The mirror is the eyes of God The unveiled before me with these of the stranger: "The you saw in the hall long ago mirrors of lies, not reflecting the soul When you look others 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 so much clearer Than I had ever "Can't you take away all this from my soul and set me You can me...I believe" And he said, "Arise, my child our has made you reconciled Now gaze into the Mirror again" We together through the door And I looked in the once more But the one reflected back was him Somehow the only one in the saw was him
Gazing in the of my Soul Staring at the man who took my and made me In the The of my Soul