THE MIRROR KNOWS MY NAME [Verse 1] Ice was melting down my face, Like tears I never meant to cry, Summer burning through the walls, A furnace hanging in the sky. I laughed at that exhausted man Inside the mirror's silver frame— Then from the minaret I heard A voice pronounce a dead man's name. [Pre-Chorus] And something changed behind my eyes, Something I could never explain— The water running down my cheeks Didn't feel like water again. [Chorus] So I don't look in mirrors anymore, I don't ask who's standing there. Every face behind the glass Is counting years I cannot spare. I thought I feared the news that came, I thought I feared that day— But the mirror knows my name, The mirror knows my name. [Verse 2] Years went by, I learned the dance: Turn my head and pass them fast, Cover every hotel glass, Run from windows holding past. Even when my phone went black And caught my face without a sound, My heart would beat like tribal drums, Like something wild was hunting me down. [Pre-Chorus] I told myself, "It's only glass, It cannot bury, bleed or blame." But reason never stopped my hands From hiding every silver frame. [Chorus] So I don't look in mirrors anymore, I don't ask who's standing there. Every face behind the glass Is counting years I cannot spare. I thought I feared the news that came, I thought I feared that day— But the mirror knows my name, The mirror knows my name. [Bridge — stripped down] Then one night I faced it. No curtain. No shadow. No place to disappear. I saw the lines around my eyes, The winter growing in my hair. And suddenly I understood What I'd been running from for years: Not death outside my window, Not the voice that brought the news— I was terrified of losing The man I couldn't choose to lose. [Final Chorus — bigger] Now I look into the mirror, Let it tell me I've grown old. Every line is not a warning, Every wrinkle isn't cold. If the glass can count my days, Then let it count the ones I claim— 'Cause the mirror knows my name, But it doesn't know my day. No, the mirror knows my name, But it doesn't know my day. [Outro] Ice once melted down my face Like tears beneath a summer flame. Now I meet those eyes and whisper: "Not today, my friend..." And walk away.
