Wash your face before your faded make-up makes a mark
The mirror will watch over you
Pierrot never comes so pack your face and chase the dark
The mirror's hung up on you
Don't be last, your friends and your reflection
It's all so direction now
Poor Harlequin, you're quite an exception
Fay troubadour, on a downer
Gay Harlequin, doesn't believe in you
(with Stefanee Morrison)
I look in the mirror and what do I see?
A perfect stranger is staring at me
Don't tell me I'm wrong I know this ain't real
I'm going insane, 'cause I can see what I feel
I try to avoid it, I'm blocking my eyes
But I feel these vibrations and it's feeling so nice
The warmth of his body, the heat of the flesh
I'm fighting against it while I strip off my dress
I want you inside of me (x2)
I can visualise what you're feeling inside
As I'm touching your spine, I can make you unwind
Feel the glow from my hands, it's the heat that I send
With the oil that I blend, let's go straight, let's go to the end
Come through the mirror I want you to rock me
I'll give you the power, the will to be horny
I need you to fill me with your glistening treasures
My body is moist and it's a palace of pleasure
Lay down beside me, then torture and please me
Let's have a party all over my body
Let's come together like the pearl in the oyster
You can whip me and bite me cause that's how I want ya
I want you inside of me (x2)
(x2)
I'm your teacher tonight, witches' power delight
There's no use for your fight, let me strenghten your might
Oh now come over here, 'cause your climax is near
Hit in the face when you open a door
Unconsiderate to yourself
You are always out of tune to you
Stepping back from where you are
Nevers angle is one for all
Fired by an unknown eye
That wasn't always a place for you to cry
Everyone knows becoming's what you do
When you die
The face in the mirror is not me - yeah hey hey
How many times have you been to the back
No one to see and
Nothing to laugh at
Going everywhere at once
Time does a crawl back to where it doesn't show
No one means me
When they say people don't grow
The face in the mirror is not me - yeah hey hey
Temptation-
Why won't you leave me alone?
Lurking every corner, everywhere i go
Self control-
Don't turn your back on me now
When i need you the most
Constant pressure tests my will
My will or my won't
My self control escapes from me still...
> hypocrite-
How could you be so cruel
And expect my faith in return?
Resistance-
Is not as hard as it seems
When you close the door
I spent so long trusting in you
I trust you forgot
Just when i thought i believed in you...
"what're you doing?
What're you doing?"
It's time for me to deal
Becoming all too real
Living in fear-
Why did you lie and pretend?
This has to come to an end
I'll never trust you again
It's time you made your amends
Look in the mirror my friend
"that i haven't behaved as i should"
"everything you need is around you.
The only danger is inside you."
"i thought you could control life,
But it's not like that. there are
Things you can't control."
Let's stare the problem right in the eye
It's plagued me from coast to coast
Racing the clock to please everyone
All but the one who matters the most
Reflections of reality
Are slowly coming into view
How in the hell could you possibly forgive me?
After all the hell i put you through
It's time for me to deal
Becoming all too real
Living in fear-
Why'd i betray my friend?
Lying until the end
Living life so pretend
It's time to make my amends
(Hess)
Pride besieged
Has fallen on the day
Now God and me
Have come to pave the way to hell
I'm not in the mirror
Just a crack pipe and sinner
In holy ruin
Don't save me I just don't care
About "no cold in Nevada"
And how the fault lines don't shatter over you
Don't tell me I just don't care
Vines and weeds
Are growing on the blade
It's not like me
To point and place the blame
But funny how the wings grow
That fly away religion
They breed the lost and plead insane
But wanna be loved
But instead
I hate to feel
When I hate the world
I really hate the real
I really hate the world
I really hate the real
When peace and love
Absolve the voice completely
Fear and lust
look
into the mirror
Is it shame?
Is it greed?
Is it something that I need?
To make me feel so strong to the other ones
Is it real?
Is it true?
All the trouble I go through
Is it just a way, to show
(Trying so hard, but still I get nothing)
That I don't have the strength to show
But the mirror will always know
I've got to let go
Is it them?
Is it me?
I'm just too occupied to see
Afraid to look within to the real one
Can it be that I am scared
To share the parts I've never shared?
Or is it just a way, to show
(Trying so hard, but still I get nothing)
You won't get inside my head cause I won't let you go
To see that I'm crying out for you to
Know what I want to say
I've got to let you know
That I want to say
Mirror, mirror on the wall
I'm on my way to loose control
You blind me with your beauty
The reflections makes me high
Will my spirit for ever die
If i break the reflected eye
This magic that you show me
make me look forever young
immortalized on the outside
but rotten deep inside
Mirror, mirror.... Look at me
Mirror, mirror
Who is that man, that staring back at me
Precious, precious save my soul
My skin looks hot though my heart is cold
I want to live my life in silence
I want to live my life in peace
Who is that man, that looks back at me
Mirror, mirror... Look at me
Mirror, mirror... Set me free
Mirror, mirror... Look at me
Mirror, mirror...
Tell me who's that man, that staring back at me
What's beyond the chamber mirror
The evening coloured secret window
Is there just an inverted picture of
This room's reality
I have witnessed tiny little changes
Within that darkened reflected room
Things have altered seemingly in wrongful
Places of false dimensions
Hypnotised my soul is waiting
Horrified my senses fading
The mirror stares into my soul
Suspiciously I'm moving closer
And I wave my hand before me
In disbelief I watch the image of myself
Yet standing still
I'm staring deep into my eyes
Touch the mirror while I wonder why
In that moment my reflection grabs my arm
And pulls me through
To a room that is reversed
My common sense I feel it burst
The mirror takes what god forsakes
The mirror
Screaming - in silence
Staring out from the mirror
Reality - fades away
And I am locked beyond the mirror
Shadows - near me
Whisperings that scare me
Help me - take me out
Crush the mirror of despair
Maybe your grace is blinding
and your eyes can break any heart;
but what the mirror can't show you,
you can never leave behind.
I'll tear your portrait into pieces.
Blessed be the most fair of them all
If the mirror shatters soon enough.
For this gift you surrendered your soul,
but it ain't the prize I'm longing for.
Oh what an awful lesson...
sins that through the canvas
came to life.
Hope for some love to save you,
beg your innocence comes back.
Because time knows
where to find you
and makes you fall apart.
Soon the mirror will break.
Buddy McBudders,
With a star in ya name,
Buddy Ol' Pal,
Watchin Crash,
Buddy Buckley,
Something has changed
The air seems to be vibrating.
The evil is coming from the ancient walls.
I can feel its breath, I'm shaking
I can't turn back anymore.
The crumbling mortar,
The cracked floor,
All the details are so vivid,
And the mirror on the wall...
My face still glitters in it.
Dust swallows my steps
But deep inside my mind
The echoes of my steps are deafening.
My fear makes me blind
The room is cursed perhaps.
The crumbling mortar,
The cracked floor,
All the details are so vivid,
And the mirror on the wall...
My face still glittes in it.
Memories are coming back
The ones I tried to bury...deep.
They've always painted my dreams black
Now I'm facing them indeed.
I see myself as a child,
I can see my brother too.
"It" possessed him and he went wild.
I see him embrace our mother.
She didn't seem to have a clule.
But Death reflected in her eyes of blue.
I've been a fugitive all my life,
But "It" always found me and now
I'm facing the mirror again somehow.
"Come and join us on the other side."
Burning eyes are watching me
Invisible hands are taking.
"You belong here already."
"We are your family."
The tiny fragments of mirror
Cut deep into my face.
I can't feel the pain any more.
I'm just standing there shivering
And suddenly I feel
It's time to plunge in the world of ... deprivation?
When I was looking in the mirror
I found out I could break on
Through to the other side if only I wanted
And I've been there
The birds were seeking refuge on the highest trees
And sadness and terror were sown like grains of wheat
On the boundless field of forgetfulness
I found fear
Nesting in the farthest places of the planet
I saw people's disputes
Dirty, wandering from place to place
Anger and hatred walking in pairs
Giving oneself away to lustful kisses
And love - full of fear, grey and sad
Was hidden in the middle of it all... somewhere deep
And I brought out the sword of truth
I wanted to disperse the darkness
But all my thoughts were wrapped up by black fog
Pulling the weapon out of my hands
It covered me softly with its tentacles
And the truth evaporated, like it had never existed
It is time to plunge in the world of ... deprivation ?
And I believed
I believed in fear, hatred and violence
And my faith was unshaken
I looked in the mirror again
To see my soul completely
And there weren't truth or love anymore
I have a light that did not shine
I have seen a mirror crushed to pieces
A mirror showing the best of me
A mirror broken by a tragedy
Here offering you tales of madness
About a dog who came crawling back
Reconcider twice before I tell you
The chapter and verse, the pain to be
We're too devided to be as one
I'm lost on this road, truly blind
A dying rose, still a living lie
Keeps away those things that makes me cry
So I'm the devil in your world
Kill my shadow and my soul
In my grave I'll cry for love
Useless to the hights above
My mirror is broken and coloured black
A splinter though is red as blood
This little piece I try to keep
I've let tomorrow be a good excuse for
not changing today
looking over our lists of to-do's routines have gotten in the way
day in, day out it becomes the same
I'm tired of standing for nothing and sleepwalking our time away
leaving our questions unanswered
or never asking at all
could we be something more
than we are right now?
eyes closed, shut tight,
apathy has us by the throat,
loosen the ropes and let our dreams take flight!
so often we let our dreams fall away but not this time... let's go
I feel like I've never wanted something so bad as this
stand up and be something more!
we'll make a change STAND UP
[Verse 1:]
I always said that I would never fall in love,
I stand up in anything I do
'Cause if every night I'm hanging out at clubs,
She could be in with another dude,
All that I'm a do is mess you up
'Cause I'm a want you faithful staying true,
But if some other chicks want me to cut,
There's nothing like a coochie if it's new
So tell me how to tell you that? "I'm keeping it one hunned, "
Should I just say, "I'm a man" that's the best that I can come with?
I look at all the stars that had wifeys when they was nothing
As soon as they got to something they left 'em, it got me bugging
Peep Dwyane Wade, Lil Wayne, Will Smith, Swizz,
You start to aim a chick with fame, that's real shit, switch,
But it ain't all the same, you can be rich and find a girl that got a name and she end up being a bitch
I wrote this verse laying next to
A chick with two kids, thought that I was there to rescue,
She mentioned stepdad, step one, get shoes,
Step two, front door I left thru she said eff you,
All this time, just nieces and nephews,
Living my dream through Dub and my brother,
Can you be a superstar and have a wife that has your heart that was there from the start or is it one or the other?
[Chorus: x2]
Is it the girl or the world?
The fam or the fame, the love of the doe or the love of the game?
I'm looking in the mirror
I'm look look look look
Looking in the mirror, I ask him
[Verse 2:]
I hang out with married couples yea I know you have your troubles but you still have each other... and that's real
And that provides you peace, if I had a girl at home,
Would my drive decrease huh?
Or would it make me go real hard
Broke up with my ex 'cause she said I need a real job
Now she getting married got an invite in the mail,
Hit her on Facebook, asked her how she feels
She said she's sorta happy but because she couldn't have me
She settled for someone crappy and that's just being real
I said I wish you woulda lied
Now I'm checking pictures reminiscing bout her thighs
Sending flirty messages and getting back replies,
Now we setting up a date to rekindle so tell me why
Would I want to be the dumb groom one day thinking that
I got me a winner while some rap nigger's hitting that?
... Or some dude with a good credit score
... Might as well tour and then get with whores
I swear doing music gave me power,
But at the same time it has made me sour,
I see the mirror and gaze for hours praying that my future holds some presents at my babyshower
Told my boy I love recording
Said he thought he did too until he got a wife and daughter,
.he sees his little girl wake up every morning
Said he had to stop rapping 'cause the garbage he was talking
Wasn't good enough for her to hear, now he asking me where I see myself in twenty years
I want money, I mean success or better living
But I don't define happiness with Websters definition
Is it hits, cameras, bitches, ice?
Or kids, family, the mrs, a wife?
Or homes, cars, living the life,
Or having someone to hold every night?
I don't know
In every game I play, the bodies are the same
Conforming to the one acceptable template
What’s this game we play with our plastic fantasies
So that reality can disappoint us
And when we look in the mirror we look nothing like
we’re meant to
Who’s telling you what’s beautiful
Did you even get a chance to make your mind up
Who’s telling you what’s desirable
Cause you know there’s more than one
There’s every flavour under the sun
And I wanna see them all
Where are the real men, the ones who are smiley
The ones who are round and a little bit geeky
The ones who are wild, the ones who are skinny
The ones who are short and a little bit cheeky
Where are the women big boned and proud
With a mouth unafraid to tell you what it’s all about
Where are the small breasts like the tenderest,
delicate, feather kiss
And when you look in the mirror you look just like
you’re meant to
Who’s telling you what’s beautiful
Did you even get a chance to make your mind up
Who’s telling you what’s desirable
Cause you know that they dictate
What we love and what we hate
And it really ain’t what we deserve
We’re addicted to perfection
We’re critics of our creation
We’re creators of abstraction
Cause what can’t we feel in this plastic thrill?
Who’s telling you what’s beautiful
Tonight we sit it’s all so quiet
and I don’t know just what went wrong
but still I miss the way you look at me
what’s happening
tonight we don’t turn on the lights
‘cause we both know it’s not OK
though you’re still here
you’re so far away and
now I scream
Why don’t you
Believe me
Just go and
Deceive me
Why won’t you
Just take me
Take me some place else
You know how
Go on and let me pretend
where are those nights
so full of passion
where are all those words we spoke
how could
we become so distant
Looking for protection
The mirror is a door made out of glass
Spend some time, watch life pass
The mirror is where death comes and goes
Spend some time and age shows
When I put my firts suit on
I looked so young and strong
The perfect cover for a boy
Who thought himself a broken toy
But noone else's supposed to see
Noone else supposed to...
Agree...
Looking for protection
A beautiful woman and fashion sways
Elegance is the embrace of decay
Oh, there was this different one
Makes me proud, the way it was done
Stripes and buttons everywhere
That hid my helplessnes, my fear
The perfect image for a man
Who always lends a helping hand
I strike a hand across my chin
Learn to like what is within
To like the things I fear the most
What I seek and all my...
Ghosts...
I'm standing here wondering what to wear
Nude and in the flesh I have to stare
Verse 1:
They come in all different shapes
All different sizes- all different places
Some for fun- others for occasion
We use it everyday for morning preparation
Its used in fairy tales for guidance
Also folklore- keeps people silent
Tales, bad omens- take bloody mary
Call 5 times- then behind she arrives
Same with candyman- through the glass movement
Even seein ghosts- mysterious illusions
The glass has held superstition- very dark past & today no different
When you look- shows ya past & ya soul
But it could kill- if you look without self control
7 yrs bad luck if it break
So if you look back & crack ya past- whats ya fate
Chorus:
I see the frame on the wall
the broken glass in my fist & the floor
in the shards- i see my soul
laughin' at me- lost control
couldn't help it- knuckle game
got control drive from all my pain
in my life, i'm just straight up stuck
before the mirror, it was all bad luck
Verse 2:
I used to despise the mirror- I used to look past the image
Just in fear of
Everything was going on at the time
Coming through the glass, going out of my mind
saw ugly- failure- lonely- angry
Despair- dread & Death were after me
I was frustrated- unappreciated
Hated myself- no weight in my belt
Worlds on my shoulders- then I lost composure
The good that was left- then far from over
I got meaner- became a violent dreamer
Developed the demeanor of a discombobulated soldier
Jealous- my soul on fire- had the desire
To wish it all away
Till I took- 1 good look & found what it took to make a better day
Chorus:
I see the frame on the wall
the broken glass in my fist & the floor
in the shards- i see my soul
laughin' at me- lost control
couldn't help it- knuckle game
got control drive from all my pain
in my life, i'm just straight up stuck
before the mirror, it was all bad luck
Verse 3:
In the mirror, you can never hide from yourself
The reflection is yours & nobody else
It never lies- its never deceptive
flaws that you see- mirrors dont correct em
The symbol for self-examination
Only see the truth- thats the arrangement
Im familiar with this very well
As a rapper- must maintain the clientele
My skin- is the same shade as the frame
The glass- oxblood goes through my veins
Never dusty- always polished
This mindset- never gonna abolish
Get wiser- consult the past for knowledge
Learn yo mistakes- free yaself from bondage
Chorus:
I see the frame on the wall
the broken glass in my fist & the floor
in the shards- i see my soul
laughin' at me- lost control
couldn't help it- knuckle game
got control drive from all my pain
in my life, i'm just straight up stuck
I didn’t go away when my lie was made
Regret all those things
I refilled them whit pain
I laugh out loud in the mirror of life, I cry
The mirror laugh at me and said hey why don’t you die
Hey hey hey, why don’t you give up mate?
I didn’t go away when my lie was made
Regret all those things
I refilled them whit pain
I laugh out loud in the mirror of life I cry
The mirror laugh at me and said hey why don’t you die
Hey hey hey, in the mirror
In the mirror of life
Hey why do you cry?
It’s a pleasure to die!
Looking in the mirror everyday I get older
Learn from the past everyday I get stronger
I like to get high, but it's great to be sober
Yesterday was hard, but it made me a soldier
You don't get nothing if you don't work hard
You can't earn stripes if you never had scars
There's way more to life then money and nice cars
You are who you are, you might be a bum
You could be a star, you might be a prisoner fighting behind bars
You trying to find peace, I'mma try to find God
You searching for your destiny we trying to find ours
The blood in my hearts pumping for the
the right cause
And I get that same feeling when I hear that old Nas
You said the world was ours just gotta play your part
Shoot for the stars like you trying to hit Mars
Shine in the dark and I bet you'll never lose
Glanced in the mirror and I'd seen I had to the twos
Awake to my ways still I'd rather hit snooze
Can't fuck with the news let the channels flip through
Put us in a cage with the habitat dude
Try to break us down like we handicap fool
Fish out of water like we vandicamp dude
Nobody supposed to eat if the family can't move
And the family can't lose, as long as we got each other
As long as we are loyal, as long as we are brothers
I called my pops the other day to tell him that I love him
For giving me the opportunity to make it out the gutter
A lot of us was fortunate to even have a mother
A lot of us got intuition that we ain't discovered
A lot of us got fears that we need to overcome
We done seen too many tears fall underneath the sun
Don't wanna see no blood shed over the years to come
So we praying up to heaven hoping that he is the one
When times getting nearer, the skys getting clearer
You searching for the truth that God's in the mirror
Deep down inside pass the lies that you hearing
Open up your heart to the light and the spirit
Despite the appearance have courage and pride
It's survival of the fittest only for the wise and the fearless
Loves the emotion, vibe to the lyrics
Years down the line I'll probably cry when I hear this
Embrace who I am, never try to be different
Mama seen the king and my eyes is the infant
Started off small, little guy on the benches
Fighting so long I felt like I was in the trenches
Destined for greatness, divine intervention
Discover who you are the fine leap of mention
I am a mystery
Living in a life of sorrow
I am a blasphemy
Why can’t you see
That I'm a trail of chaos
I am a sacrilege
A fading light
Somewhere in the shadows
I am a living lie
Trapped in a circle of sadness
With the mirror as my only friend
Come closer can't you see me
Come closer can’t you feel me
The mirror never lies
I've got no reflection still I see the sorrow
The mirror never cries
Yet I see the tears from the face in front of the
mirror
The mirror the mirror never lies
Have I lost my mind
Or is it over now
'Cause I can’t see my own reflection in the mirror
I am the circle of madness
I am the one who calls you
I am the garden of Eden
A lonely shadow
Don't you know who I am
I am the child in the mirror
An empty face
I am the chaos around you
I am the face in the mirror
Why can’t you see
The Mirror
Lost inside the shadow, erase the sins I've made
Have I lost the sense of time and reality?
I've felt the hands of darkness
Touch my soul, war inside my head
Walking with this shadow
Too blind to see what's wrong or right
No more excuses, no more lies
Unlock the doors help me find a way out
Through the windows in my mind
Transcending to a new dimension
Who can see behind my eyes?
The mirror of our soul
Feels like my life is hanging by a thread
Silently I can slipping away
I've felt the power of death
Close my eyes to hide the tears
The restless picture in my mind
Is it all delusion?
Through the windows in my mind
Transcending to a new dimension
Who can see behind my eyes?
The mirror of our soul
Hiding my scars of what's left of this body
Searching for the light at the end of the tunnel
Splinters of a broken heart
Always seem s darker deep in my mind
The endless night is calling
Waiting in silence. I fear the end is near
Voices without a sound calling me all over again
Through the windows in my mind
Transcending to a new dimension
Who can see behind my eyes?
The mirror of our soul
Through the windows in my mind
Transcending to a new dimension
Who can see behind my eyes?
Can you help me
Read the pages of my mind
Can you stop me
From going through this life so blind
Don't turn your back on me
Don't walk away, don't look away
Don't feign the sympathy
I see right through you
Eyes of glass stare back
My doorway to the inside closed
Does the mirror lie
Inside my mind, hiding my soul
To inside
Won't you help me
I once reached out but lost my hold
I just can't see
Why this life leaves me so cold
Just lived a broken dream
I've slipped away, i've gone away
All wrong so it would seem
All wrong
Simple twist of fate
Has changed my life left me behind
Pull my strength from hate
I'll find a new way to inside
To inside
Full of sin-giving in
Hiding strength-within
Making pain-hiding shame
No one knows your name
I looked into the mirror
Didn't know what I would see
But it was still just me
But it was still just me
With all these different images
Of who they think is me
I don't know which one to be
And my eyes look like the sea
Oh, what fearful times are these
Oh, Lord
You don't promise this, but please
Let me feel You now
Because I know that You are here
Whispering in my ear
And looking in the mirror
She woke up this morning
Didn't know who she should be
So she turned on the TV
So she could escape for free
And all this time
You've been right here
But she just couldn't see
There is more than just a dream
She's the daughter of a King
Oh, what fearful times are these
Oh Lord
You don't promise this, but please
Let her feel You now
Because I know that You're there
Hearing every prayer
And returning her stare
I've been so many people
To so many people
But I just want to be
Who You want me to be
Oh, what fearful times are these
Oh Lord
You don't promise this but please
Let me feel You now
Because I know that You are here
Whispering in my ear
Well I used to cry every day but I won't look back, no
I run to you and you run away with your songs of death
getting in the way
Shoot us down
under the ground …
And when I look back, look away a crack in the mirror
sheds a tear, we'll sing our songs to the fruitless moon
as I follow a map of my inner room
Shoot us down
under the ground …
tie my leg to a rope throw me over the edge of a boat
This is the story of an American hero,
Born in the ghetto in poverty,
Taken in by the white man, cleaned up, given a home,
Became the salvation of every modern mother's son.
Worked in a factory, worked on the land,
Steel work and dust bowl dirt staining his hand,
Shot down in Memphis, Iwo Jima made me a man,
Now I gotta look in some comic book,
Just to find out who I am.
IT HURTS,
CAN'T YOU SEE ME BLEED.
IT HURTS,
CAN'T YOU FEEL THE NEED,
THESE FLOWERS OF EVIL
AND THESE GODS WITHOUT GRACE,
YOU TOOK THE MIRROR,
NOW YOU'RE PUSHING IT IN MY FACE.
It's the American way into the twenty first century,
It rides a motorbike alone down the interstate,
It wears dark glasses and dates thin girls,
Uses strong arm tactics all around the world,
It's the noble savage at the edge of the forest
With Oedipus eyes and Icarus wings,
It's a Soul Train coming, it's savage and keen,
And it's spitting Coca-Cola from the barrel of an M16.
IT HURTS,
CAN'T YOU SEE ME BLEED.
IT HURTS,
CAN'T YOU FEEL THE NEED,
THESE FLOWERS OF EVIL
AND THESE GODS WITHOUT GRACE,
YOU TOOK THE MIRROR,
Behind the slab of glass
Mirror hides a mystery
Hell
Black Prince rules the world
Black sun runs with blood
And eternal night percolates
Through the glass
Eternal
Night
Percolates through the glass
Directly into my soul
This limit is so near
The gates open
One step
On this side Evil is a king
Pentagram burns above hi throne
The Demons whisper in hiss of flames
I touch the mirror
It is as cold as on your side
Come near
I will open the door
Come near...
