Mirror

[Verse 1]

What this dirty old thing?

Can't you see that it’s broken? It won't hold anything

You said in your anger and pain

Impatiently waving towards everything

[Chorus]

All the memories and stories, the gifts that you got

Ragged and ancient, smelling of rot

[Verse 2]

Well I can't say I blame you, what else can I do?

A bad education got a hold of you

The story was thick and you fell right through

You know, it happened to me before it happened to you

[Chorus]

Oh, but put up your aerials, your lips or your skin

No matter how jangled, signals come in

And all light passes over everything

You were touched by as much of it as anything

[Verse 3]

I don’t make the rules, I just watch them unfurl

Like smoke always rising from the fires of the world

You were dousing your fields in a chemical rain

You were cutting my arm to transcend your own pain

[Chorus]

Oh, but God is a mirror, everything is

Come a little nearer, everything slips

Silver unknown from the lens of your eye

As if into a pool, back up again to rise

[Verse 4]

And come back at you, doubled in size

Something so of you, you can't recognize

The dreams and nightmares you tried to pry

With harsh tools and levers straight out of the sky

[Chorus]

God is a mirror, everything is

I don't know why it's just the way that it is

But all light passes, it falls straight down

You don't know you receive it like the grass on the ground