Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
What’s this image I’ve never seen before?
It stands before me, familiar, yet before unseen,
And it speaks to me in words which have no meaning.
The dreams in his eyes have all but gone
And he looks so solemn, standing so strong
But he can’t support himself so hollow,
So who is the man behind the curtain?

Hello, stranger.

Opening your mouth, you speak so loud,
And yet, I listen, and no words come out.
How can you say so much with so little?
Your words leave my mouth tasting bitter.
Your hair has lost all sheen,
Your teeth have rotted in between –
You’re the picture of decadence, so decay away,
But first I have to know: Who are you, anyway?

Talk to me stranger.

When I look for my reflection,
All I find is your deflection.
Answering in riddles and rhymes,
Growing unaware of the time,
You can talk for hours and never tire;
You talk as if you’re high on a wire,
But you look so dead, you’re no better than me.
So tell me now, is this who you wanted to be?

You’re a hypocrite, stranger.

Why can’t I see myself in the mirror anymore?
Instead of me, I see you, and my heart sinks to the floor.
We engage in conversation and trade life stories,
But it’s so one sided; while I listen, you ignore me.
After all these years, what have you become?
Tell me stranger, what has time done?
On others can you blame it all?
Or are you to blame for your own fall?

I need a straight answer, stranger.

The sight of your face drives me insane…
I hear your voice always calling my name…
You act as though you know me,
But you, I’ve never before seen.
I don’t know who you are,
But I can tell you have no heart.
I want no part of your manipulative games,
I don’t care about how you drown in shame.

Stay away from me, stranger.

You follow me where I go,
So now I’ve just got to know,
I can’t wait for your answer anymore.
Your petty games are becoming a bore!
At first I had fun, at first I didn’t mind,
But now it’s been three years of wasted time!
Day after day, night after night,
These games we’ve played just aren’t right!

Just answer me, stranger!

You open your mouth, but you tell of lies,
You mean I’m the one whom I despise?
You’re not me, so just silence those words.
Fly away with your flock of black birds.
Return to hell, or from wherever you came,
Your very existence drives me insane!
I can’t stand the sight of you, so just stay away!
I already told you: Your games I will not play!

Stop lying to me, stranger!

And so you disappear, and I am again alone.
I look once more into the mirror to see how I’ve grown
Throughout these years of fighting with you,
I wanted to see how much I’ve improved.
But I look into my mirror, and my reflection is gone.
Could it possibly be that I was wrong?
Were you actually me, stranger? Were your words true?
No, they couldn’t have been. That wasn’t me, it was you.

Goodbye, stranger.

It’s been ten years since that day I chased you away,
And I finally realized that with each passing day…
My black and white mind is gaining shades of gray;
My will to believe that you were wrong slowly fades.
It seems you were right, stranger, you were me.
That’s why my reflection since then deserted me.
The mirror isn’t broken, that was never the case,
When I looked at your emptiness… I was looking at my face.

You weren’t lying, stranger…

When I saw you, I saw who I had become,
A stranger in my own mind who hid behind guns.
Someone who’d never lay down their arms and let someone in,
Someone who had learned to find happiness in all his sins.
I was in denial, and so I saw you as someone else, a stranger,
But doing so put my heart and soul in danger.
I was denying myself; I became so see-through,
I wasted the time I could’ve spent fixing myself fighting you.

I fear it’s too late to turn back, stranger……

The lesson in my rhyme is to not deny your own change.
So if you ever look in the mirror and see someone strange,
Take into account the possibility that the stranger could be you.
To change the man in the mirror is the best thing you can do.
Don’t be afraid, don’t turn away, stare down the stranger you see,
Do what you can to erase his existence until from him you’re free!
Remember this man, for you must learn from his mistakes,
Because more often than not, this world will give you no breaks.

Another night, another cry, another shameful way to die
Hide behind masks and conceal my burning scars
Sleep deep and pray that my dreams will take me far

Become someone new with the change of the seasons
In this way do I become the man without any reasons
Reasons to hold on, reasons to look ahead,
Reasons to feel as if I’m no longer dead

Do not be deceived my friend, the play I play on you is cruel
It’s not me you see but a mask, and with it I can break every rule
I’m nothing like you thought I was, despite my every promise
Now that you’ve found me out, I must find my way out of all this

My mask is growing heavier, and now I wish to throw it down
But I’m afraid that you might not like the one behind the clown
The broken, the used,
The fucked up, the abused
The kind of man who’d light every fuse
If only to watch it burn,
If only to make every head turn

We all wear our masks, some bright, some dark
And despite all the plastic, we remember deep in our hearts
Who we really are, or at least who we want to be
And life is an illusion I can use to shape the real me

The man behind the mask will begin this long task
To break every mirror and with its shattered glass
Cut his mask to pieces, and burn its remnants whole
Then pray that he remembers who’s waiting in his soul

To the masked world I really must implore
Take off your masks, it’s really no chore
Reveal who you are, reveal every scar,
Hope you never forgot who you really are
The world will like better the real you
Not some façade only you see through

So take off your masks, and throw them to the ground
And maybe together, we can burn this masked world down
In its ashes we can rebuild a world better than before
In its ashes we can see a world that’s masked no more