Listen to the I tell a haunting dream I know so When walking alone one night my path revealed by Ahead I see an open with no idea in store I glance the door to see a hall of beckons me I take a breath and inside a tale of and shattered pride The door shut, I start to run And it my journey has begun...
I run and turn side 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 I have done A thousand of flattery the soon turns to haughtiness in me
mirrors, different shapes my different strengths Each mirror has a name and and all reflect me in way I look at them to see to judge my life by someone The within replete: the mirrors are the people I met
at the man you see - in the mirrors The things you can be - in the The glory of me revealed in the eye The mirror never The fire in my - in the mirrors The rise - in the mirrors The power of comes alive in the mirrors
in the mirrors I behold All the greatest chapters of my story ever In the The is turned to gold
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At the end of the Hall of I behold a golden I all the beauty the other side must in store So I quickly reach out my To enter the next in this promised land I pull the door open To continue my journey, I inside But it slams shut me, and I'm back outside The pouring welcomes me the arms of the coldest, blackest night
[II. The In The Storm]
The of the mirrors has faded away into memory As the rain keeps down My candle I struggle to a path I cannot see And the keeps coming down
The darkness grows with every I cut it with a knife As the rain keeps down I can't see a thing and never 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 been so afraid (The of this tale?) Never should opened the door (From to hell)
I my fate, my end to die in this this was the plan back from the day I was But in the hall of I had felt so high I walk another mile in this flood So to my fate, I just collapse in the mud If I cannot go on, just lay down and die
Suddenly a light I see, shining in the I my way toward it with my fading hope reborn As I draw near, the light is the rain beats its resistance But I press on and pray 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 right back For the gone beneath me And I behold, illuminated in the light's warm A chasm, a great abyss A vast of nothingness A pit that has no 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 to feel a hand on my shoulder I turn to see a shadowed figure standing in the But somehow I'm not of him Even when he speaks my And somehow I can that he means me no harm Just by the peace that I see in his And even though I've never even seen him It's like he's me all my life "Why are you crying?" the stranger As I wipe the tears I point the great abyss The source of all my
"I must get across and get to light For it represents my only tonight But I saw the chasm, all that hope was lost spent so long in the dark and the rain That the sight of the light my heart sing again But the so wide, and there's 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 the ledge And said, "Behold, I a bridge for you"
I cross the bridge toward the The saved my life tonight I turn to try to thank him, but gone A long way to the other make my way without my guide No to waste, for I must carry on
The bright light forth from behind A door beyond Blood and scratches mark the door ages of abuse I'm confused no more, for the door Is a weathered, old "All who see reality, enter the Hall of Truth" And so I do
[III. The Revealed]
As I step I can see mirror A mirror so That my eyes must turn A so high I to question all the others And as I stand there in the Hall of my heart can say: "Show me the truth, I don't know what to For the all showed something different to me And my pride has way to misery spent so long in the dark and the rain That the of the light made my heart sing again And the stranger built a across for me"
"BEHOLD THYSELF" a rings out in paralyzing It echoes all the hall and me to my knees When the calls my name I'm overcome fear and wonder
As I start to rise and the great mirror in front of me When I open my eyes, I have to close them But still the image is burned my mind... A face with eyes as as night A terrifying The flesh rotting in sickness and decay It's by disease I'm to breathe Tell me manner of creature this could be it's not me
I run away as fast as my feet will me Back to the door into the night Even the storm 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 me once again?) I see understanding in his (He's seen all before) Maybe he can tell me I saw behind that door
"Tell me what I saw in the I ran away Tell me what I saw in the That face of and decay Tell me I saw in the mirror That left me the lifeless, blackened eyes? Was it a From the waves? Was it the From the grave? Oh the face I beheld in the mirror me paralyzed Won't you tell me I saw in the on this night?"
"The light from the mirror you saw from The Mirror of Souls shows all men as are You entered the hall and you asked for the The man that you saw in the was you"
"No! Don't show me the 'cause I want to believe What the Mirror of has revealed me And the face I saw cannot be me Dying and in the arms of decay I do not recognize the face seen 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 hall ago Were mirrors of lies, not the soul When you look unto to see what they see You see an illusion, deception, reality"
I have seen my soul in the And it has me I seen myself so much clearer Than I had 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 through the door And I in the glass once more But the one reflected back was him the only one in the mirror saw was him
Gazing in the Mirror of my Staring at the man who my place and me whole In the The of my Soul