Mirror...I Remember You
By
Evanescence & Robby Richardson
“You don’t remember me, but I remember you”
I’ve known your face since your first breath, your reflection I kept
Painted your lines, our image intertwined, your hand in mine
“I lie awake and try so hard not to think of you”
And the past time was the last time
That you’d ever find anymore ink in this pen of mine
Without your siren’s call you don’t exist at all
So what exists behind the veil needs to set sail
Because whatever lies within truth must be fail
Ripped at the seams to be sewn by a dream
“But who can decide what they dream”
The dreams you broke from the lies you spoke
God is more real than what lies behind your cloak
They feast on my soul and won’t let go
Feasting internal, your obsession it circles
Release from the temptation of a past that you fly to
Of memories inside you from the scars I provide you
Regenesis of the past is the lie I cling to
See through you I do…“And dream I do”
“I believe in you”
And I believe in you
Which is why it’s so hard not to think of you
To feel your touch, your lasting embrace
In my reflection I see the scars you paint
“I’ll give up everything just to find you”
And my belief in you confines me, surrounds me, imprisons my soul...It blinds me
It can’t break me, your image betrays me to see what life made me
You reflect the cold I’ve known the day you let go
Lost in a world you dream of...Is this hell enough
My ship washed ashore you reveal the scars I bore
Revealing my strength you can’t ignore
From my choices you deplore to having no idea what you are in for
No luxury to give in, no use in pretending
Your world I can no longer live in
“I have to be with you, to live, to breathe”
The gift to exist to the tears that you’ve kissed
I feel you “Taking Over Me”
“Have you forgotten all I know and all we had”
Your memory clutched to my heart...Your essence like air in my soul
Everything we had makes this smile easy to hold
Our memories I have kept in a box upon my shelf
Holding a treasure in these cards I was dealt
When I felt lost you were always there like an answer to a prayer
When I felt broken you were the only one that cared
Picked me up when I was down in this strength I am found
You helped me touch my soul and put my feet back on this ground
“You saw me mourning my love for you”
Is it me that you missed or just the meaning to exist
Unable to see how we both can coexist
Despair at the lies that tear me inside
This hourglass we have will always be pouring the sand
Time you will never understand
I felt your touch…“And touched my hand”
“I knew you loved me then” and I knew I lost you then
“I look in the mirror see your face”
I look in the mirror and see our face
Your perception is misplaced for I see behind your face
I see the change in you is clear...Clear enough
“If I look deep enough”
Where I see triumphs you see falls...But you see none of it at all
Blind to your time to understand my climb
So many scars outside that are in plain view
“So many things inside that are just like you…”
And so many memories that seem to guide you and distort my view
Are just like that…“Are taking over”
“I believe in you, I’ll give up everything just to find you”
And I’ll lose everything to be with you
To keep you here which ensnares my fear
It can’t break me like it broke you…Reminds me of the past you go to
So you can keep believing in me in the deceiving of me
But the past can’t be renewed and there within lies the lie
I won’t give another single second to the past that I am missin’
If acceptance isn’t imparted then this is were we parted
And in the end I need to chase my star however far
My future I live, I breath, no more “Taking over”
The End