My Mirror Speaks

Death Cab For Cutie · The Open Door [EP] [2009]

With every sun that sets I am feeling more

Like a stranger on a foreign shore

With an eroding beach disappearing from under me



And when my mirror speaks, it never minces words

'cause these eyes don't shine half as bright

As they used to do and they haven't for quite a while



'cause I'm a man who hides from all that binds

In a mess of fading lines

And there's a tangled thread inside my head

With nothing on either end



I always fall in love with an open door

With the horizon on an endless sea

As I look around the ones who were

standing right in front of me



And then my mirror speaks with irreverence

Like a soldier I can't command

It sees a frightened child in the body of a full-grown man



And he's a man who hides from all that binds

In a mess of fading lines

And there's a tangled thread inside his head

With nothing on either end

there's nothing on the end



A new position for a different view

And nothing changes but the slightest hues

And I am standing, face to face



With a man who hides from all that binds

In a mess of fading lines

And there's a tangled thread inside his head

With nothing on either end



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I'm a man who hides from all that binds

In a mess of fading lines

And there's a tangled thread inside my head

With nothing on either end

There's nothing on the ends

No there's nothing on the ends