Between a Mirror

By Peter Johnson

© 1986 © 2006

This is a song which I wrote and composed in 1986 (as a post-teenager.) Many adolescents spend an enormous amount of time in front of the mirror for a multitude of reasons; self admiration, perfecting their looks for ‘that someone special’ (etc.) I focussed upon the ‘darker’ side of the mirror; an adolescent desperately looking for an improvement in appearance and frustrated by the inadequacy of looking in the mirror for answers.

In glass the opposite,
Detail I see myself.
All just reflected back,
Dead zone, my other side.

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Movements there, copy back.
Barrier, parallel.
Duplicate, imitate.
Ego trip, hypnotised.
All in the mirror,
Left to right is right to left.
All in the mirror,
Left to right is right to left.

Moods will change with sight,
On a dark, late night.
There, appearing at the mirror.
Watch your every move,
From the glass that's smooth.
Staging for one night in the mirror.

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Hands feel the surface,
Coldness, no sympathy.
Lying incapable,
Natural reflection.

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Altering the face,
And the mirror stays.
Speak, but replies are imitation.
Madness tells you more,
To be there you saw,
Held, controlled between the mirror.

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