By Michael Guy Bowman bowman Bandcamp YouTube YouTube mguybowman Twitter michaelguybowman.com Other mguybowman Instagram ← Charity Bizarre Previous track by this artist → Lies With The Sea (Beta) Next track by this artist.
Released 8/9/2024.
Duration: 5:12.

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General contributors:

• Bijan Eghtesady melancholyrobot Bandcamp melancholy_robo Twitter ← Charity Bizarre Previous general contribution by this artist (drums)

Lyrics:

I have a secret power
That lets me change my face
Every bone in my body
Is replaced

I've been the baker with his heavy hands
I've been the soldier in a foreign land
I've been every kind of person so very many times
I'm not sure who I was when this began

I'm a copy, I'm a clone
I have no face of my own
And the mask I wear before you
Hides a fool who's all alone
You can call me Mister Mirror
Though I might not be a man
For the life that I am living
Is forever secondhand

Secondhand
Won't you please understand?

Oh it's a wild transformation
To move inside another person's skin
Still I remain in isolation
For the faces never fill the space within

But if you'd like to see it
It isn't hard to do
Just reach over here and touch me
I'll be you

Won't you let me draw you nearer
See yourself a little clearer
In the eyes of Mister Mirror
History's greatest disappearer
Bring to me the mouth and nose
The tensed brow, the fidget toes
The rib that aches, the heart that knows
The love and hate a lifetime chose

I'll taste the sweet and bitter upon your tongue
I'll choke the smoke and glitter that glaze your lungs
I shall know you as no other ever has or ever will
Though I know that you could never do the same

I'm a copy, I'm a clone
I have no face of my own
And the mask I wear before you
Hides a fool who's all alone
You can call me Mister Mirror
Though I might not be a man
For the life that I am living
Is forever secondhand

Secondhand
Won't you please understand?

I'm a copy, I'm a clone
I have no face of my own
And the mask I wear before you
Hides a fool who's all alone
You can call me Mister Mirror
Though I might not be a man
For the life that I am living
Is forever secondhand

Secondhand

So if you'd like to see it
You know what to do
Just reach over here and touch me

Oh, won't you please just reach over here
And touch me