Mirror Images Songtext
von Van der Graaf Generator

If I′m the mirror and you're the image
Then what′s the secret between the two?
The me's and you's, how many can there be?
Oh, I don′t mind that ′round the place
As long as you keep it away from me

I've begun to regret that we ever met
Between the dimensions, it gets such a strain
To pretend that the change is anything but cheap
With your infant pique and your angst pretensions
Sometimes you act like such a creep


And now we′re standing in the corner
Looking at the room and the furniture
Cheap imitation of alienation and grief
And now we're going to the kitchen
Fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette
Getting no closer to being the joker or thief

Who′s the joker? Who's the thief?
Who′s the joker? Who's the thief?

Still I reflect
There's another wreck who stands before me
I can see you as well
And I can surely tell he′s not yet free
He can turn aside, there can no more ignore me
Don′t know which one of us is he
Can't tell what he is going to be
Don′t know which one of us is me

Take the mirror away
Take the mirror away
Take the mirror away
When it's gone then the real one will stay