Текст песни Mirrors Break Back - Erin McKeown

So fragile and delicate, flame that burns out,
So fleeting in nature, love for myself.
One look I'm full of cracks,
Mirrors break back.
Back and forth between faith and doubt,
The stage and shadow, the spring and the fall,
The constant swing of it all gets me down, down,
Still that merry-go-round finds a way to come round,
So I can get up again (Amen!)
Tell me, do you feel the same way when,
Mirrors break back?
Oooh, break back.
I never had a model,
I only had a mother, who compared ourselves to others,
Always another and another.
I was taught to think - The bitch takes up space,
The witch gets burned at the stake,
This history decieves me,
Leaves me vulnerable to attack (Uh-huh)
Mirrors break back.
Oooh, break back.
True, sometimes I do think I'm beautiful,
With strong hands and wrists,
Pulling on strings, raising fists,
And when I punch the glass, shatter that ceiling,
Feels like we could all break through,
But then you turn around and it turns on you.
All of us know this realness too (We do)
We feel the same lows in our tight clothes,
But at least we're less alone when those,
Mirrors break back.
Oooh, break back.
Mirrors break back.
Oooh, break back.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite action,
For every confident step there is the backstab of fear,
Backslash, backslide,
Slide, step into the negative (The President)
You are all wrong.
The Patriarchy is strong.
And it's biggest weapon is hanging in your house,
Saying "You better check yourself".
"You better check yourself", too late,
And straight to my heart it's cardiac.
Mirrors break back.
Oooh, break back.
Oooh, break back.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite action,
For every hateful look I will close my eyes,
And picture a fire,
An endless choir,
Until I will not believe what I see,
When the mirror is trying to break me.
I will look up.
I will look out.
How about I meet your eyes?
And in that rhapsodic deed,
Mirrors break (Oooh, break)
That's the seed, that's all the reflection I need.