[Intro: Brad Raney]

I've got a son whose a freshman in high school

If you ask him, and he's fourteen and a half

If you ask him what his life looks like at twenty-four

He can tell you

[Verse: abstract dak]

Mirror, mirror, tell me why I don't reflect

On half the shit that I internalize and turn into regret

I burned so many pages and I learned to just forget

I'm running circles in my brain to try to verbally lament

Search again and the words, they still evade

I'm ashamed, all attempts at articulation in vain

Blood, sweat and tears don't mean shit unless you can follow through

The feelings unexpressed are more abstract than Picasso drew

Now there's a lot to do, a lot to write, a lot to prove

Ramble on and on over instrumentals like La Dispute

My only solace when nothing is making sense

If the form it takes is flawless, then that wasn't the intent

To some extent, I found some beauty in the pain

Reflecting on the trauma but the view is not the same

The appearance may have changed, but I think it's rooted deeper

I'll examine all the creases in my brain in every feature

I'd be eager for some proof

Taking leisure to recoup

But I could barely take a breather without reaching back for you

Man, I really couldn't tell if this was healing or abuse

Reflected back at me I could clearly see the truth

The smashed pieces of my psyche

I'ma carefully glue them back together and make it better than the archetype

When you repair a synaptic tether, the bond will never break

Never bend, nor will it sever, the sharpest knife

It won't cut it man, I'm stronger than I was

Twenty-one I lost my father, when it rains I guess it floods

Nothing to prepare us, man, the family was stunned

Pull ourselves up out the grief that every one of us succumbed

Mirror, mirror on the wall

The cracks upon your surface don't hide who you really are

When I look up - the ceiling is gone, revealing the stars

For the ones under the canopy, I'm sending my regards

[Outro: Brad Raney]

Looking between the lines is a learned skill

Some people are better at this than others

But you can learn how to do it