[Intro] I put the mirror down. It still knew me. I changed my name and the room moved through me. [Verse 1] I buttoned the coat to the throat real careful, hid my old life in the lining seam. Your house opened with a candle on the table, and every flame looked twice at me. I spoke lower than my mother taught me, walked sharper than my body felt. A servant asked who sent me forward. I said a name I made myself. Then you came down with grief in your collar, eyes still dressed for somebody gone. You heard my lie and leaned in closer, like the wrong key knew the song. [Chorus] Borrowed face, honest lie. I disappear, you recognize. Wrong name, right ache. I found myself in a borrowed face. [Verse 2] Your questions touched the edge of my costume, but never pulled the thread too hard. I carried love like contraband silver, wrapped in velvet, under guard. You said your heart was locked and emptied. I almost laughed. I had the key. Not for the door you thought was waiting, but for the room you made in me. Some nights the mask fit better than skin. Some mornings skin felt counterfeit. I practiced truth in a stranger’s grammar, then watched my own mouth answer it. [Chorus] Borrowed face, honest lie. I disappear, you recognize. Wrong name, right ache. I found myself in a borrowed face. [Bridge] Tell me, mirror, who gets blamed when the disguise starts saying your name? Tell me, daylight, what comes clean when the false thing knows what I mean? I wore the lie to cross the floor. Then the lie opened the door. [Final Chorus] Borrowed face, honest lie. I disappear, you recognize. Wrong name, true ache. You found me there in a borrowed face. [Outro] I put the mirror down. It still knew me. I kept the name that finally moved through me. [End]
