Listen to the tale I a dream I know so well When home alone one night my path by candlelight I see an open door with no what's in store I glance inside the to see a hall of beckons me I take a breath and step a tale of love and shattered The slams shut, I start to run And it seems my has begun...
I run and turn from side to with and panic in my eyes The vastness me far as the eye can see I see in every one I see the that I have done A thousand of flattery the soon turns to haughtiness in me
mirrors, different shapes my strengths accentuate Each mirror has a name and and all reflect me in way I look at to see myself to judge my life by else The metaphors replete: the mirrors are the people 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 never lies The in my eyes - in the mirrors The vanity - in the mirrors The of pride comes alive in the mirrors
in the mirrors I behold All the greatest of my story ever told In the The is turned to gold
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At the end of the Hall of I a golden door I all the beauty the other side must hold in So I quickly reach out my To enter the next room in promised land I pull the giant open To continue my journey, I step But it slams shut me, and I'm back outside The pouring rain me the arms of the coldest, blackest night
[II. The In The Storm]
The light of the mirrors has away into distant As the keeps coming down My extinguished I to walk a path I cannot see And the rain keeps down
The darkness grows with step I could cut it with a As the rain keeps down I can't see a thing and never felt so in all my life But the rain coming down...
Caught in the fury of the (The suffocates) and soul 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 Maybe this was the back the day I was born But in the hall of I had felt so high I cannot walk another mile in this So resigned to my fate, I collapse 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 my fading hope reborn As I near, the light is clear Though the rain beats its But I press on and pray this is a from the storm Advancing now toward the I'm quickly moving hope has given me new strength I thought I'd never But I take a step, and right back For the ground's gone me And I behold, illuminated in the light's glow A dark chasm, a great A expanse of nothingness A pit has no bottom as far as the eye can see It spans the horizon, and there is no way across My lonely heart is shattered and all hope I had is
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 that 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 stranger As I wipe away the I point toward the great The source of all my
"I must get and get to that light For it represents my only hope But when I saw the chasm, all that was lost I've spent so long in the dark and the That the sight of the made my heart sing again 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 toward the edge And pointed just over the And said, "Behold, I a bridge for you"
I cross the bridge toward the The stranger saved my tonight I turn to try to him, but he's gone A long way to the other I'll my way without my guide No time to waste, for I carry on
The bright light forth from behind A door beyond Blood and scratches the door from ages of abuse I'm no more, for above the door Is a weathered, old "All who would see reality, the Hall of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Truth
As I step I can see mirror A so bright That my must turn away A so high I start to question all the And as I stand there in the Hall of my can only say: "Show me the truth, I know what to believe For the mirrors all showed different to me And my pride has way to misery I've spent so long in the and the rain the sight of the light made my heart sing again And the stranger built a bridge for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a voice out in paralyzing It all throughout the hall and sends me to my When the voice calls my I'm overcome with fear and
As I slowly start to and face the great mirror in of me When I open my eyes, I to close them again But the image is burned into my mind... A face with eyes as as night A terrifying The flesh away in sickness and decay It's mangled by I'm unable to me what manner of creature this could be 'Cause not me
I run away as fast as my will carry me Back to the leading into the night Even the storm that almost claimed my was than this And so I throw the door and see a man (The of a man) The stranger from the returns again (To me once again?) I see understanding in his (He's this all before) Maybe he can me what I saw behind that 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 That me terrorized With the lifeless, eyes? Was it a From the waves? Was it the From the grave? Oh the face I beheld in the mirror left me Won't you tell me I saw in the on this night?"
"The light from the mirror you saw from The Mirror of shows all men as they are You the hall and you asked for the truth The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! Don't me the truth I don't want to believe What the 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 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 of the stranger: "The mirrors you saw in the long ago Were mirrors of lies, not the soul When you look unto others to see what see You see an illusion, deception, reality"
I have seen my soul in the And it has me I have myself so much clearer I had ever seen "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 you reconciled Now gaze the Mirror once again" We walked together the door And I in the glass once more But the only one reflected was him Somehow the only one in the saw was him
Gazing in the Mirror of my at the man who took my place and made me In the The of my Soul