Listen to the tale I a haunting I know so well When walking home one night my revealed by candlelight Ahead I see an open with no what's in store I glance the door to see a hall of mirrors me I take a breath and step a of love and shattered pride The door shut, I start to run And it seems my has begun...
I run and from side to side with and panic in my eyes The vastness me far as the eye can see I see myself in one I see the things that I done A thousand forms of the fear soon to haughtiness in me
Different mirrors, different 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 else The metaphors replete: the mirrors are the people 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 lies The in my eyes - in the mirrors 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 door I all the beauty the side must hold in store So I quickly reach out my To enter the next room in promised land I pull the giant door To my journey, I step inside But it shut behind me, and I'm back outside The pouring welcomes me into the of the coldest, blackest night
[II. The Stranger In The
The light of the mirrors has away distant memory As the rain keeps down My extinguished I struggle to walk a I cannot see And the keeps coming down
The darkness grows with step I cut it with a knife As the rain coming down I can't see a thing and I've felt so in all my life But the rain keeps down...
Caught in the fury of the (The suffocates) Body and soul and worn (Another of fate) been so afraid before (The ending of tale?) Never should have the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in this Maybe was the plan back from the day I was But in the hall of mirrors I had 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 just lay and die
Suddenly a light I see, shining in the I make my way toward it with my fading hope As I near, the light is clear Though the rain 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 given me new I thought I'd never But I take a step, and fall right For the ground's gone me And I behold, in the light's warm glow A dark chasm, a abyss A vast expanse of A pit that has no as far as the eye can see It spans the whole horizon, and there is no way My lonely heart is shattered and all hope I had is
I'm to feel a hand on my shoulder I turn to see a shadowed figure in the rain But somehow I'm not of him when he speaks my name And somehow I can tell he means me no harm Just by the peace that I see in his And even though I've even seen him before 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 get across and get to that light For it represents my only tonight But when I saw the chasm, all hope was lost I've spent so long in the dark and the the sight of the light made my heart sing again But the gulf's so wide, and 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 down the edge And pointed just the ledge And said, "Behold, I built a for you"
I cross the toward the light The stranger saved my life I turn to try to thank him, but gone A long way to the other I'll make my way without my No to waste, for I must carry on
The bright light shines forth behind A door description and scratches mark the door from ages of abuse I'm confused no more, for above the 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 so bright That my eyes must away A mirror so 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 something different to me And my has given way to misery I've spent so in the dark and the rain That the sight of the light made my heart sing And the built a bridge across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a rings out in thunder It echoes all the hall and sends me to my When the voice my name I'm overcome with 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 into my mind... A face with eyes as as night A sight The flesh rotting away in sickness and mangled by disease I'm to breathe me what manner of creature this could be 'Cause not me
I run as fast as my feet will carry me Back to the door leading the night Even the that almost claimed my life was than this And so I open the door and see a man (The of a man) The stranger from the storm returns (To save me again?) I see understanding in his (He's seen all before) he can tell 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 left me terrorized With the lifeless, blackened Was it a the fiery waves? Was it the From the grave? Oh the that I beheld in the mirror me paralyzed Won't you tell me I saw in the mirror on night?"
"The light from the mirror you saw afar The Mirror of Souls shows all men as are You entered the and you asked for the truth The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! show me the truth 'cause I want to believe What the of Souls has unto me And the I saw reflected cannot be me Dying and lost in the arms of I do not recognize the face seen today And if you say my face I must disagree"
The of these things I saw: The mirror is the eyes of God The truth unveiled me with words 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 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 all this sickness from my soul and set me You can me...I believe" And then he said, "Arise, my our has made you reconciled Now gaze into the once again" We together through 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 of my Soul Staring at the man who my place and made me In the The of my Soul