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Mirror by IDER

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IDER

Mirror

Release date: 18th July 2019

From Emotional Education
Track 1
3:39
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'Mirror' finds IDER caught in the disorienting aftermath of a breakup, watching themselves become a stranger. The track opens with obsessive self-examination, the duo's voices locked in unison as they ask whether they can still recognise their own face, their own laugh, their own movements. It is a song about identity fractured by absence, the way another person's presence can become so woven into your sense of self that losing them means losing yourself too. The song builds methodically, layering jagged guitars and synths beneath minimal beats until the chorus arrives with a rush of release. But there is no real relief here. Instead, IDER cycle through the same questions, the same mirror-gazing, the same desperate plea to be healed. A late-song monologue catalogues the ways people disappoint and abandon, a litany that feels both personal and universal. It is a Dork four-star record that refuses easy answers, offering only the small comfort of shared confusion.

"Mirror" is a track by IDER, from the album Emotional Education, released 18th July 2019. The track is 3:39 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about IDER.

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IDER

IDER

Lyrics

Mirror

I can't stop looking in the mirror
Do I really make that face?
Can you remind me what I look like?
Now I'm alone in my own place
Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me
Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me
You chose to leave, you chose to leave, you chose to leave (Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me)
I keep looking in the mirror
'Til I see myself, I see myself, eh
Hey lover, will you blow my cover?
'Cause I'm not myself, I'm not myself
I wake up in the middle of the night
And I look like a stranger in the bathroom light
I, I keep looking in the mirror 'til I see myself
I'm trying so hard to forget you
When were you last online?
I should pretend I never met you
I'm still so desperate all the time
Do I really laugh like that? (Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me)
Do I speak? Do I move? Do I look like that? (Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me)
I can't remember what I'm good at (Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me)
Where you at? Where you at? (Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me)
Where you at? (Heal me, heal me, heal me, heal me)
I keep looking in the mirror
'Til I see myself, I see myself, eh
Hey lover, will you blow my cover?
'Cause I'm not myself, I'm not myself
I wake up in the middle of the night
And I look like a stranger in the bathroom light
I, I keep looking in the mirror 'til I see myself
People love, people leave, people let down
People show up, roll up, people grow up
People move out, people disappear
People don't change, people rearrange
People miss the game, people lose
People try, people lie, can't look you in the eye
People suck, people fuck, people leave their shit behind
People throw up on the carpet, people trip up on the stairs
People laugh, people dare, people scare, people tell you what to wear
People jump, people sink, people float, people think
People fail, people hate what they don't know
People think they're worth nothing, people think they're worth the top
People drop, people love what they know, people think but don't stop
I keep looking in the mirror
'Til I see myself, I see myself, eh
Hey lover, will you blow my cover?
'Cause I'm not myself, I'm not myself
I wake up in the middle of the night
And I look like a stranger in the bathroom light
I, I keep looking in the mirror 'til I see myself, I see myself, eh
I keep looking in the mirror
'Til I see myself, I see myself, eh
Hey lover, will you blow my cover?
'Cause I'm not myself, I'm not myself
I wake up in the middle of the night
And I look like a stranger in the bathroom light
I, I keep looking in the mirror 'til I see myself, I see myself, eh

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Track details

From Emotional Education

3:392019
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Emotional Education
Emotional Education
IDER
19th July 2019
Track number
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Release year
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  1. 1Mirror
    3:39
  2. 2Wu Baby
    3:40
  3. 3Busy Being a Rockstar
    3:32
  4. 4Brown Sugar
    3:37
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