[Intro — rain, distant traffic, a solitary shakuhachi breath] [Female Lead Vocal, whispered] The mirror lights up. [Male Baritone, distant and processed] Please show your face. [Verse 1] [Female Lead Vocal] A woman in the glass looks just like me [Female Lead Vocal] But her smile arrives before my own [Male Baritone] Your digital double trembles on the screen [Male Baritone] It knows what you will want tomorrow [Female Lead Vocal] I gave the network all my memories [Female Lead Vocal] My fears, my habits, every night [Male Baritone] The machine has learned your body [Male Baritone] But not the silence where you hide [Pre-Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] If my reflection can live without me [Male Baritone] Which one of you is the original? [Female Lead Vocal] If I disappear behind my voice [Male Baritone] Who signs the final image? [Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] The mirror has no face [Male Baritone] It keeps everything, sees no one [Female Lead Vocal] I split in two with every passing day [Male Baritone] Each double asks what I have done [Female Lead Vocal] The mirror has no memory [Male Baritone] Yet it knows every secret I keep [Female Lead Vocal] I search for my name inside the dark [Male Baritone] The screen replies: “Profile complete.” [Instrumental Interlude — shakuhachi plays a lonely melody; glitch pulses mimic its breath, then distorted guitars enter] [Verse 2] [Female Lead Vocal] A thousand eyes calculate my face [Female Lead Vocal] A thousand screens make me real [Male Baritone] You are the sum of your habits [Male Baritone] And the product of what they reveal [Female Lead Vocal] I erase the traces of my story [Female Lead Vocal] Cut every wire, lock every door [Male Baritone] But your image lives in their memory [Male Baritone] In every gaze you carried before [Pre-Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] If my reflection can live without me [Male Baritone] Perhaps it’s the one that will survive [Female Lead Vocal] If I am only what they see [Male Baritone] Who sees the dark when the screens go blind? [Chorus] [Female Lead Vocal] The mirror has no face [Male Baritone] It keeps everything, sees no one [Female Lead Vocal] I split in two with every passing day [Male Baritone] Each double asks what I have done [Female Lead Vocal] The mirror has no memory [Male Baritone] Yet it knows every secret I keep [Female Lead Vocal] I search for my name inside the dark [Male Baritone] The screen replies: “Profile complete.” [Bridge — everything cuts out except breath and shakuhachi] [Female Lead Vocal, fragile] I took my face away [Male Baritone, unprocessed] Nothing seemed to change [Female Lead Vocal] I walked out of every image [Male Baritone] Who remained to see the change? [Build — rain becomes a drum pattern; bass pulses, guitars rise, shakuhachi cuts through the distortion] [Female Lead Vocal] I am not what you archive [Male Baritone] I am not what you predict [Female Lead Vocal] I am not the image drifting by [Male Baritone] Not the sum of every click [Final Chorus — intense, expansive, vocals and shakuhachi in counterpoint] [Female Lead Vocal] The mirror has no face [Male Baritone] Yet it teaches us to see [Female Lead Vocal] I break the screen, abandon the image [Male Baritone] Still the fragments look like me [Female Lead Vocal] The mirror has no memory [Male Baritone] Yet it repeats the way I stare [Female Lead Vocal] I search for a face inside the dark [Male Baritone] And somewhere, the dark is staring back [Outro — rain returns; shakuhachi breathes a final unfinished phrase] [Female Lead Vocal, whisper] Was that my reflection? [Male Baritone, whisper] Or the one who watched?
