The Mirror

Rock-Country Rock:up tempo Key of G root chord "A maj"

 

The Mirror

Maybe He's a vagabond
in patched up faded jeans
Maybe she's an artist
adding color to her dreams

Maybe he talks too slow
and there's color to his skin
Maybe you don't like his politics
or the movement that he's in

Maybe she talks too fast
in a high pitched wispy voice
Maybe you don't like her values
or the fact that she's pro choice

So what gives any of us
the right to say they're wrong
We're only in control of
the words to our own song

[Chorus]

[But the Mirror is hard
When it's pointed your way
How much easier to look at
someone else and say that
It's you; You're the one who's wrong
and you've got to change
I don't like who you are
So it's time you re-arrange]

Maybe he ain't American
Speaks a language you don't understand
Maybe you don't like his beliefs in God
or the fact that he's on your land

 

Maybe we are Pilgrims

travelin' a dusty road
whether or not we choose the truth
determines the weight of our load

 

So what gives any of us

the right to say they're wrong
We're only in control of
The words to our own song

[But the Mirror is hard
When it's pointed your way
How much easier to look
At someone else and say that
It's you; You’re the one who's wrong
And you've got to change
I don't like who you are
So it's time you re-arrange]

We are all the children of

The First Great Source of Light

and we hurting our own family

When we load the guns to fight

 

What gives any of us
the right to say they're wrong
We’re only in control of
the words to our own song

[But the Mirror is hard

When it's pointed your way
How much easier to look
At someone else and say that
It's you; You’re the one who's wrong
And you've got to change
I don't like who you are
So it's time you re-arrange

 

Yes, it's time you re-arrange]

Author's Note

took suggestion and shortened it.

Reviews

[Melanie Jane Boicourt S..]

"We are all the children of
the First Great Source of Light

We murder our own families
when we load the guns to fight"


Loved these lines.
Loved the whole thing.
I guess that I shouldn't paste the whole song back to you though.
Those lines just summed up the idea that I was perceiving.
The idea that I was perceiving is that I loved your song. I write lyrics too. I am going to send you an invite to my group called inspirations. (Not my group as in "band" my group as in the writers group. Although that would be a good name for a band if it isn't already being used. I am sure it is.
Love All, Mejasha