Listen to the I tell a haunting I know so well When walking alone one night my path by candlelight Ahead I see an door with no idea in store I glance the door to see a hall of beckons me I take a breath and inside a tale of and shattered pride The slams 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 that I done A thousand of flattery the soon turns to haughtiness in me
Different mirrors, different my different strengths 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 replete: the mirrors are the people I met
at the man you see - in the mirrors The things you can be - in the The glory of me in the mirror's eye The mirror never The in my eyes - in the mirrors The vanity - in the mirrors The power of comes alive in the mirrors
Gazing in the 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 of Mirrors I behold a golden I all the beauty the other side must hold in So I quickly out my hand To enter the next room in 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 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 down My extinguished I struggle to walk a I cannot see And the rain coming down
The darkness grows with every I could cut it with a As the rain keeps down I see a thing and I've never felt so in all my life But the keeps coming down...
in the fury of the storm (The suffocates) Body and weary and worn (Another of fate) Never been so before (The of this tale?) Never should opened the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in this this was the plan back from the day I was But in the hall of I had felt so high I cannot walk another in this flood So resigned to my fate, I just in the mud If I go on, I'll just lay down and die
Suddenly a light I see, in the distance I make my way toward it with my fading reborn As I near, the light is clear Though the rain its resistance But I press on and pray this is a from the storm now toward the light I'm quickly forward hope has given me new strength I thought I'd never But I take a step, and fall right For the ground's beneath me And I behold, illuminated in the light's glow A chasm, a great abyss A vast expanse of A pit that has no 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 standing in the rain But somehow I'm not of him Even he speaks my name And somehow I can that he means me no harm by the peace that I see in his eyes And even though I've never seen him before It's like he's me all my life "Why are you crying?" the stranger As I away the tears I point toward the abyss The source of all my
"I must get across and get to light For it represents my only hope But when I saw the chasm, all that hope was I've so long in the dark and the rain That the sight of the light made my heart sing 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 pointed just over the And said, "Behold, I built a for you"
I cross the bridge the light The stranger saved my life I turn to try to him, but he's gone A long way to the side I'll make my way without my No time to waste, for I carry on
The bright light shines forth behind A beyond description and scratches mark the door from ages of abuse I'm no more, for above the door Is a weathered, old "All who see reality, enter the Hall of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Revealed]
As I inside I can see mirror A mirror so That my eyes turn away A mirror so I start to question all the And as I stand there in the Hall of my heart can say: "Show me the truth, I don't know to believe For the mirrors all showed something to me And my pride has given way to spent 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 voice out in thunder It echoes all the hall and me to my knees When the calls my name I'm overcome with and wonder
As I start to rise and face the great in front of me When I open my eyes, I have to them again But still the is burned into my mind... A face with as black as night A sight The flesh rotting away in sickness and It's mangled by I'm to breathe Tell me what of creature this could be it's not me
I run away as as my feet will carry me Back to the door leading the night Even the storm almost claimed my life was better than And so I throw open the and see a man (The of a man) The stranger the storm returns again (To me once again?) I see understanding in his (He's this all before) Maybe he can tell me what I saw behind door
"Tell me what I saw in the Before I ran me what I saw in the mirror That face of sickness and me what I saw in the mirror That left me With the lifeless, blackened Was it a the fiery waves? Was it the beyond the grave? Oh the that I beheld in the mirror me paralyzed Won't you me what I saw in the mirror on night?"
"The light the mirror you saw from afar The Mirror of Souls all men as they are You entered the hall and you asked for the The man you saw in the mirror was you"
"No! Don't me the truth 'cause I don't to believe What the of Souls 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 that's my I must disagree"
The meaning of things I saw: The mirror is the eyes of God The unveiled before me with these words of the "The mirrors you saw in the long ago Were of lies, not reflecting the soul When you look unto others to see what see You see an illusion, deception, reality"
I have seen my in the mirror And it has me I seen myself so much clearer Than I had ever "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 faith has made you Now gaze into the Mirror again" We walked together through the And I in the glass once 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 took my and made me In the The of my Soul