Listen to the I tell a haunting dream I know so walking home alone one night my path revealed by I see an open door with no idea what's in I glance the door to see a hall of mirrors me I take a breath and step a tale of love and pride The slams shut, I start to run And it my journey has begun...
I run and turn side to side with fear and in my eyes 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, shapes my different strengths Each has a name and face and all me in some way I at them to see myself to judge my life by else The metaphors replete: the mirrors are the that I met
Look at the man you see - in the The things you can be - in the The glory of me in the mirror's eye The mirror lies The fire in my - in the mirrors The vanity - in the mirrors The power of pride comes in the mirrors
Gazing in the 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 Hall of I a golden door I imagine all the the other side must in store So I quickly reach out my To enter the next in this promised land I the giant door open To my journey, I step inside But it slams shut me, and I'm back outside The rain welcomes me the arms of the coldest, blackest night
[II. The Stranger In The
The light of the mirrors has away into memory As the keeps coming down My candle I struggle to walk a I cannot see And the keeps coming down
The darkness grows with every I could cut it with a As the rain coming down I can't see a thing and never felt so in all my life But the rain keeps down...
in the fury of the storm (The suffocates) Body and soul weary and (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 storm Maybe this was the back from the day I was But in the hall of I had felt so high I cannot walk another mile in flood So to my fate, I just collapse in the mud If I cannot go on, I'll just lay and die
Suddenly a light I see, shining in the I make my way toward it with my fading reborn As I draw near, the light is Though the rain its resistance But I press on and pray this is a shelter from the Advancing now the light I'm moving forward This hope has me new strength I thought I'd know But I take a step, and fall back For the gone beneath me And I behold, illuminated in the warm glow A dark chasm, a abyss A vast expanse of 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 standing in the But I'm not afraid of him Even when he speaks my And somehow I can that he means me no harm Just by the peace that I see in his And even though I've never even seen him It's like he's me all my life "Why are you crying?" the stranger As I wipe 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 was lost spent so long in the dark and the rain That the sight of the made my heart sing again But the so wide, and there's no way across"
The stranger smiled, and my hand He said, "But you are wrong, my You cannot the gulf yourself, that's true" He led me down toward the And pointed just the ledge And said, "Behold, I a bridge for you"
I the bridge toward the light The stranger saved my life I turn to try to thank him, but gone A long way to the other make my way without my guide No time to waste, for I carry on
The light shines forth from behind A door description Blood and scratches mark the door ages of abuse I'm confused no more, for the door Is a weathered, old "All who see reality, enter the Hall of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Truth
As I inside I can see another A mirror so That my eyes turn away A mirror so I start to question all the And as I there in the Hall of Truth my heart can only "Show me the truth, I don't know what to For the all showed something different to me And my has given way to misery I've spent so in the dark and the rain That the of the light made my heart sing again And the built a bridge across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a voice out in paralyzing It all throughout the hall and sends me to my When the voice my name I'm overcome fear and wonder
As I slowly start to and the great mirror in front of me When I open my eyes, I have to close them But still the image is burned my mind... A face eyes as black as night A terrifying The rotting away in sickness and decay It's by disease I'm to breathe me what manner of creature this could be 'Cause not me
I run away as fast as my feet will me to the door leading into the night Even the that almost claimed my life was better this And so I throw the door and see a man (The of a man) The stranger from the returns again (To save me again?) I see understanding in his (He's seen all before) Maybe he can tell me what I saw 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 I saw in the mirror That left me With the lifeless, blackened Was it a From the waves? Was it the beyond the grave? Oh the face that I beheld in the left me you tell me what I saw in the mirror on night?"
"The light from the you saw from afar The Mirror of Souls all men as they are You entered the and you asked for the truth The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! Don't me the truth 'cause I don't to believe What the Mirror of has unto me And the face I saw cannot be me Dying and lost in the arms of I do not the face I've seen today And if you say that's my I must disagree"
The meaning of these things I The mirror is the eyes of God The truth unveiled 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 myself so much Than I had ever "Can't you take away all sickness my soul and set me free? You can me...I believe" And he said, "Arise, my child our faith has you reconciled Now gaze into the once again" We walked together the door And I looked in the glass more But the only one reflected 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