Listen to the tale I a haunting dream I so well When 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 and step inside a tale of love and shattered The door shut, I start to run And it seems my has begun...
I run and turn from to side with fear and panic in my The overwhelming me far as the eye can see I see in every one I see the things that I done A forms of flattery the soon turns to haughtiness in me
Different mirrors, different my strengths accentuate mirror has a name and face and all me in some way I look at them to see to my life by someone else The within replete: the mirrors are the that 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 never lies The fire in my - in the mirrors The rise - in the mirrors The power of pride comes in the mirrors
Gazing in the mirrors I All the greatest chapters of my story told In the The is turned to gold
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At the end of the of Mirrors I behold a door I all the beauty the other side hold in store So I quickly out my hand To enter the room in this promised land I pull the door open To continue my journey, I step But it slams shut behind me, and I'm outside The pouring welcomes me into the arms of the coldest, night
[II. The In The Storm]
The light of the has faded away distant memory As the keeps coming down My candle I struggle to walk a path I see And the rain keeps coming
The darkness with every step I could cut it with a As the rain keeps coming I see a thing and I've never 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) Never so afraid before (The of this tale?) Never should have the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in storm this was the plan back from the day I was But in the of mirrors I had felt so high I walk another mile in this flood So to my fate, I just collapse in the mud If I go on, I'll just lay down and die
a light I see, shining in the distance I make my way toward it my fading hope reborn As I draw near, the light is Though the rain its resistance But I press on and pray this is a shelter the storm now toward the light I'm quickly moving This hope has given me new I thought I'd know But I a step, and fall right back For the ground's gone me And I behold, in the light's warm glow A dark chasm, a great A expanse of nothingness A pit that has no 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 a hand on my shoulder I to see a shadowed figure standing 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 though I've never even seen him before like he's known me all my life "Why are you crying?" the stranger As I away the tears I toward the great abyss The of all my fears
"I must get across and get to light For it represents my only hope But when I saw the chasm, all hope was lost I've spent so long in the and the rain That the sight of the made my heart sing again But the gulf's so wide, and no way across"
The stranger smiled, and my hand He said, "But you are wrong, my You cross the gulf yourself, that's true" He led me down toward the And pointed just over the 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 way to the other side I'll my way without my guide No time to waste, for I must on
The bright shines forth from behind A beyond description Blood and scratches mark the from ages of abuse I'm confused no more, for above the Is a weathered, old "All who would see reality, enter the of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Truth
As I inside I can see another A so bright That my eyes must turn A so high I to question all the others And as I stand there in the Hall of my can only say: "Show me the truth, I don't know what to For the mirrors all something different to me And my pride has way to misery spent so long in the dark and the rain That the sight of the light made my heart again And the built a bridge across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a rings out in thunder It all throughout the hall and me to my knees the voice calls my name I'm overcome with and wonder
As I slowly start to and face the mirror 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 eyes as as night A terrifying The flesh away in sickness and decay It's by disease I'm to breathe Tell me what manner of this could be 'Cause not me
I run away as as my feet will carry me to the door leading into the night Even the storm that almost my life was better than 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 this all before) Maybe he can tell me what I saw behind that
"Tell me I saw in the mirror Before I ran Tell me what I saw in the face of sickness and decay Tell me I saw in the mirror That me terrorized With the lifeless, blackened Was it a From the fiery Was it the From the grave? Oh the face that I beheld in the me paralyzed Won't you me what I saw in the on this night?"
"The light the mirror you saw from afar The Mirror of Souls all men as they are You the hall and you asked for the truth The man you saw in the mirror was you"
"No! Don't show me the 'cause I don't want to the Mirror of Souls has revealed me And the I saw reflected cannot be me Dying and lost in the of decay I do not recognize the face seen today And if you say my face I must disagree"
The meaning of things I saw: The mirror is the eyes of God The truth unveiled me with these words of the "The mirrors you saw in the hall 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 myself so much clearer I had ever seen "Can't you away all this sickness from my and set me free? You can me...I believe" And he said, "Arise, my child our has made you reconciled Now gaze into the once again" We walked together through the And I in the glass once more But the one reflected back 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 Mirror of my