Listen to the I tell a haunting dream I so well When walking home one night my revealed by candlelight Ahead I see an open no idea what's in store I glance the door to see a hall of beckons me I take a breath and step a tale of and shattered pride The door slams shut, I to run And it seems my has begun...
I run and turn side to side with and panic in my eyes The vastness me far as the eye can see I see in every one I see the things that I done A forms of flattery the fear soon to haughtiness in me
Different mirrors, different my different accentuate Each has a name and face and all me in some way I at them to see myself to my life by someone else The metaphors within the are the people that I met
at the man you see - in the mirrors The you can be - in the mirrors The of me revealed in the mirror's eye The mirror lies The fire in my - in the mirrors The vanity - in the mirrors The power of comes alive in the mirrors
Gazing in the mirrors I All the chapters of my story ever told In the The world is turned to
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At the end of the of Mirrors I a golden door I imagine all the the other side must hold in So I quickly reach out my To enter the room in this promised land I pull the door open To continue my journey, I step But it slams shut me, and I'm back outside The pouring rain me into the of the coldest, blackest night
[II. The In The Storm]
The light of the has faded away into memory As the rain coming down My candle I struggle to walk a I cannot see And the rain coming down
The darkness grows with every I could cut it a knife As the rain keeps coming I can't see a thing and I've felt so alone in all my But the rain coming down...
Caught in the of the storm (The suffocates) Body and weary and worn (Another of fate) Never so afraid before (The of this tale?) should have 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 mirrors I had so high I walk another mile in this flood So resigned to my fate, I just 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 is clear Though the beats its resistance But I press on and pray this is a shelter from the Advancing now toward the I'm quickly moving hope has given me new strength I thought I'd know But I take a step, and right back For the ground's gone me And I behold, illuminated in the warm glow A dark chasm, a abyss A vast 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 and all hope I had is lost
I'm startled to feel a on my shoulder I to see a shadowed figure standing in the rain But I'm not afraid of him Even when he speaks my And somehow I can tell he means me no harm Just by the peace I see in his eyes And even though never 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 toward the great abyss The of all my fears
"I get across and get to that light For it my only hope tonight But when I saw the chasm, all that was lost I've so long 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 took my He said, "But you are wrong, my You cross the gulf yourself, that's true" He led me toward the edge And pointed just the ledge And said, "Behold, I a bridge for you"
I the bridge toward the light The saved my life tonight I turn to try to him, but he's gone A way to the other side I'll make my way my guide No time to waste, for I carry on
The bright light forth from behind A door beyond Blood and scratches mark the door from ages of 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 must away A mirror so I start to all the others And as I stand there in the Hall of my can only say: "Show me the truth, I don't know to believe For the all showed something different to me And my pride has given way to I've spent so in the dark and the rain the sight of the light made my heart sing again And the built a bridge across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a voice out in thunder It echoes all throughout the and sends me to my the voice calls my name I'm overcome with fear and
As I slowly to rise and face the great mirror in of me When I open my eyes, I have to them again But still the image is into my mind... A face with eyes as black as A terrifying The flesh away in sickness and decay It's by disease I'm to breathe Tell me what manner of creature could be it's not me
I run as fast as my feet will carry me Back to the door into the night the storm that almost claimed my life was better than And so I throw open the and see a man (The of a man) The stranger from the storm again (To save me again?) I see understanding in his (He's this all before) Maybe he can tell me what I saw that door
"Tell me I saw in the mirror Before I ran me what I saw in the mirror That face of and decay Tell me what I saw in the That left me the lifeless, blackened eyes? Was it a From the fiery Was it the From beyond the Oh the face that I in the mirror left me you tell me what 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 entered the hall and you asked for the The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! show me the truth 'cause I don't want to the Mirror of Souls has revealed me And the face I saw cannot be me Dying and lost in the of decay I do not recognize the I've seen today And if you say that's my I must disagree"
The meaning of these things I The mirror is the holy of God The truth before me with these of the stranger: "The mirrors you saw in the hall ago mirrors of lies, not reflecting the soul When you look others to see what they see You see an illusion, deception, reality"
I have seen my in the mirror And it has me I have myself 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 into the Mirror once again" We together through the door And I in the glass once more But the one reflected back was him Somehow the only one in the saw was him
in the Mirror of my Soul Staring at the man who my place and made me In the The of my Soul