Truth in the Looking Glass

VERSE 1

Where the hollow meets the darkness

Hung a glass nobody made

Vorpal bright along its edges

Sharp as any blade

Older than the hollow round it

Stiller than the dark

Every secret sealed in silver

Every truth shown cold and stark

VERSE 2

Down the path they came and wandered

Caught their face and carried on

Glanced once at the vorpal surface

Glimpsed themselves and gone

Some would pause a half a heartbeat

Turn their chin and walk away

For those who glance are soon forgotten

And the glass has naught to say

PRE CHORUS

But one came down the crooked pathway

One who would not carry on

Stood before the vorpal surface

Long after long

CHORUS

THE LOOKING GLASS, THE LOOKING GLASS

Vorpal edged and razor true

THE LOOKING GLASS, THE LOOKING GLASS

Snicker-snack comes back to you

Those who glance go on their way

Those who linger have to pay

THE LOOKING GLASS, THE LOOKING GLASS

Has nothing left to say

VERSE 3

Down she came all mimsy bitter

Sent her loyal galumphing in

Bandersnatch came wild behind her

Wearing all her sin

Crash and claw at every surface

Shriek and rail against the glass

While she who wound and sent them forward

Pawns protect and never ask

BREAKDOWN

Just the glass.

Just the glass.

Still and cold and vorpal bright.

Just the face

that kept returning

gazing into the glass once more

BRIDGE

The bandersnatch came howling through

For every mimsy thing she knew

The galumphing crowd came at her call

And never thought to ask at all

She smiled behind her gilded tongue

Orchestrating pulling strings

The vorpal glass went snicker-snack

Truth in color bleeding through the cracks

OUTRO

And so the looking glass hangs still

As sharp and vorpal as it will

Snicker-snack for those who stay

The glancing ones have gone away

Just the glass

Just the glass

Just the glass