Listen to the tale I a haunting dream I so well When walking home alone one my path revealed by I see an open door with no what's in store I glance the door to see a of mirrors beckons me I a breath and step inside a tale of love and pride The door slams shut, I to run And it my journey has begun...
I run and turn from to side with and panic 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 thousand forms of the fear turns to haughtiness in me
Different mirrors, shapes my different strengths mirror has a name and face and all me in some way I look at to see myself to judge my life by else The metaphors replete: the are the people that I met
Look at the man you see - in the The things you can be - in the The of me revealed in the mirror's eye The mirror never The in my eyes - in the mirrors The vanity rise - in the The power of pride alive 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 Hall of I behold a door I all the beauty the other side hold in store So I reach out my hand To enter the room in this promised land I pull the door open To my journey, I step inside But it shut behind me, and I'm back outside The rain welcomes me into the arms of the coldest, blackest
[II. The Stranger In The
The light of the mirrors has away into distant As the rain coming down My extinguished I struggle to walk a I cannot see And the rain coming down
The darkness grows with every I cut it with a knife As the keeps 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 weary and (Another of fate) Never been so before (The ending of tale?) Never should opened the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in this Maybe this was the 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 cannot go on, just lay down and die
Suddenly a light I see, shining in the I make my way toward it my fading hope reborn As I near, the light is clear Though the rain its resistance But I press on and pray this is a shelter from the Advancing now the light I'm quickly moving hope has given me new strength I I'd never know But I take a step, and fall right For the ground's gone me And I behold, illuminated in the light's warm A chasm, a great 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 heart is shattered and all hope I had is lost
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 Even when he speaks my And somehow I can tell that he means me no Just by the that I see in his eyes And even though I've never even him before It's like he's known me all my "Why are you crying?" the asks As I away the tears I point toward the great The source of all my
"I get across and get to that light For it represents my only tonight But when I saw the chasm, all that was lost I've spent so in the dark and the rain That the of the light 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 cannot cross the yourself, that's true" He led me down toward the And just over the ledge And said, "Behold, I built a for you"
I cross the toward the light The saved my life tonight I turn to try to him, but he's gone A long way to the side I'll my way without my guide No time to waste, for I must on
The bright light shines from behind A door beyond Blood and scratches mark the 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 inside I can see another A so bright That my eyes turn away A mirror so I start to question all the And as I stand in the Hall of Truth my heart can say: "Show me the truth, I don't know to believe For the mirrors all something different 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 heart again And the stranger built a across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a voice out in paralyzing It all throughout the hall and me to my knees the voice calls my name I'm with fear and wonder
As I slowly start to and the great mirror in front of me When I my eyes, I have to close them again But still the is burned into my mind... A face with eyes as as night A sight The rotting away in sickness and decay mangled by disease I'm to breathe Tell me what manner of this could be it's not me
I run away as as my feet will carry me Back to the 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 storm returns (To save me again?) I see understanding in his (He's seen all before) Maybe he can tell me what I saw behind door
"Tell me what I saw in the Before I ran Tell me what I saw in the That face of sickness and Tell me I saw in the mirror That left me With the lifeless, eyes? Was it a the fiery waves? Was it the From beyond the Oh the that I beheld in the mirror me paralyzed Won't you me what I saw in the on this night?"
"The from 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 that you saw in the was you"
"No! Don't show me the 'cause I don't to believe the Mirror of Souls has unto me And the I saw reflected cannot be me and lost in the arms of decay I do not recognize the I've seen today And if you say my face I must disagree"
The meaning of these I saw: The mirror is the eyes of God The truth before me with these words of the "The mirrors you saw in the hall ago Were mirrors of lies, not reflecting the When you look unto others to see 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 Than I had ever "Can't you away all this sickness from my soul and set me You can me...I believe" And he said, "Arise, my child our faith has you reconciled Now into the Mirror once again" We together through the door And I looked in the once more But the only one reflected was him the only one in the mirror saw was him
Gazing in the Mirror of my Staring at the man who took my and me whole In the The of my Soul