Verse 1 I walked beyond the broken dunes Where yesterday was buried deep The wind erased the names I knew And swept away the promises I'd keep Each grain of sand, a memory Each horizon, another door The road behind kept calling me But I wasn't who I was before Pre-Chorus In the heat of a thousand suns The distance bent what I believed Chorus In the desert of mirrors I see a thousand faces stare A child of hope, a king of ashes A ghost of someone who was there In the desert of mirrors Every reflection wears my eyes Different roads, different endings Under the same relentless sky And I wonder which one's real Or if they're all alive inside Verse 2 I found a stranger in the glass Standing where I used to stand Holding all the dreams I lost Like water slipping through his hands Some were brave and unafraid Some had learned to disappear Some were broken by the weight Of every unanswered year Pre-Chorus The world kept changing shape and form While I became somebody new Chorus In the desert of mirrors I see a thousand faces stare A rebel, a saint, a wounded traveler All the lives I could have shared In the desert of mirrors The truth is dancing in disguise Different roads, different endings Under the same relentless sky And I wonder which one's real Or if they're all alive inside Bridge Beneath the desert sleeps a blackened sea Older than the stars that used to guide me Its tide is rising through the bones of forgotten years Flooding cathedrals built from hope and fear Time is an ocean hidden under the sand Waiting to reclaim every kingdom of man Drowning the people I used to be Leaving their ghosts staring back at me Time is an emperor crowned in dying suns Dragging his shadow across everyone Breaking the mirrors that showed who I was Leaving ten thousand reflections undone Final Chorus In the desert of mirrors The faces slowly merge and fade Every loss and every victory Part of who I became In the desert of mirrors I've stopped asking which is true The world keeps changing all around me And I keep changing too Outro The tide came without thunder The tide came without sound One by one the mirrors fell Face down into the ground Now the desert stretches endless Beneath a blood-red sky And every version of myself Still watches me pass by Like ghosts beneath the water Like kings beneath the sand Waiting for the ocean of time To rise again And far beyond the dunes Where the dying sunlight pours The emperor keeps marching Toward a thousand shattered shores Leaving only dust and silence Where reflections used to stand In the darkened sea of memory Beneath the endless sand.
