Van Der Graaf Generator - Mirror Images Lyrics
(Hammill)If I'm the mirror and you're the imagethen what's the secret between the two,these 'me's and 'you's, how many can there be?Oh, I don't mind all that around the place,as long as you keep itwell away from me.I've begun to regret that we ever metbetween the dimensions.It gets such a strain to pretend that the changeis anything but cheap...with your infant pique and your angst pretensionssometimes you act like a creep.And now I'm standing in the corner,looking at the room and the furniturein 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.Still, I reflect, this nervous wreckwho stands before me can see as well,can surely tell that he's not yet free;he can turn aside, but can no more ignore methan know which one of us is he,than tell what we are going to be,than know which one of is me.And now we're going to the kitchen,fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette,getting no closer to being the joker or thief.These mirror images,these mirror imageswon't stay, go away, are no help.In these mirror images of myselfthere are no secrets.
