House of Mirrors

Title: “House of Mirrors” Verse 1 You came like a whisper through a half-lit room Soft as a prayer, sharp as a wound Wore heaven’s face with a serpent’s tongue Made me feel chosen, made me come undone You moved the walls when I needed ground Stole my balance without a sound And every truth I tried to hold Turned strange and thin and cold Pre-Chorus You spoke in circles, silver and slow Till I could not trust what I know I disappeared inside your smoke Chorus You built a house of mirrors round my head Filled my mouth with words I never said Turned my doubt into a sacred thread And pulled, and pulled, and pulled Till something in me bled You called it love, that cruel disguise But love does not devour, does not disguise Now I wake beneath the ruin of your spell And I can finally tell Verse 2 You had a way of bending every light So wrong looked holy in the night Made your hands seem clean somehow While all the blame fell on me now I wore your version of my name Like a mourning dress, like borrowed shame And every time I tried to run You’d make a maze of what you’d done Pre-Chorus You spoke in riddles, sweet and low Till I could not trust what I know I vanished in the undertow Chorus You built a house of mirrors round my head Filled my mouth with words I never said Turned my doubt into a sacred thread And pulled, and pulled, and pulled Till something in me bled You called it love, that cruel disguise But love does not devour, does not disguise Now I wake beneath the ruin of your spell And I can finally tell Bridge There’s your shadow on the ceiling There’s your echo in the hall There’s the ghost of who I was Before I gave you all But the glass is starting to shatter And your voice is growing thin What you buried in the dark Is breathing back again Final Chorus You built a house of mirrors round my head But I am gathering the broken pieces in my hands And every lie you wrapped in silk and dread Is fading, fading, fading Like the last words of the dead You called it love, that cruel disguise But love does not deceive and still survive Now I rise beneath the ashes of your spell And I can finally tell Outro You were never holy Only hollow dressed in white And I am leaving With my name Out of your night