My Mirror Speaks by Death Cab for Cutie
10 May 2009 (#125)
Year: 2009Length: 3:31
From their EP "The Open Door." Most of the songs here were cuts made from Narrow Stairs that Death Cab decided did not fit with the sound and mood of Narrow Stairs. This is my favorite song from the album, definitely beating out the single they released, the first track "Little Bribes." All the songs on the album are pretty spectacular though, so check out the album if you haven't already.
Lyrics
With every sun that sets I am feeling more
Like a stranger on a foreign shore
With an eroding beach disappearing from underneath
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
And 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 a 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 a reverence
Like a soldier I can’t command
It sees a child in the body of a full-grown man
And he’s a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there’s a tangled thread inside his head
With nothing on either end
There’s nothing on either 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
And a mess of fading lines
And there’s a tangled thread inside his head
With nothing on either end
I’m a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there’s a tangled thread inside my head
With nothing on either end
(repeat)
There’s nothing on the ends
No, there’s nothing on the ends
