I Look in the Mirror (Into the Troubled Abyss)
I Look in the Mirror EP
Intro – spoken / echo
I look in the mirror…
The mirror cracks but shows no face…
Verse 1
I look in the mirror
I hate what I see
I stare at the cracks
Where confidence should be
The mirror cracks but shows no face
A hollow void, an empty space
I walk the edge, the shadows bite
No stars to guide me through this night
Every scar's got a story
Every line's a mistake
I've been carrying weight
I don't know how to shake
Pre-Chorus – A → B
I've been fighting myself
In the dead of the night
Trying to believe
I'm worth the fight
The walls are breathing
I hear their call
They whisper secrets
They watch me fall
Chorus – A over B
I look at myself
I don't know what you see in me
When I'm breaking apart
At the seams, quietly
Into the abyss
I'm sinking low
No light to follow
No place to go
If love is a language
I never learned to speak
Tell me what you see in me
Into the abyss
The darkness sways
Caught in the rhythm of endless days
Verse 2 – interweave
I hear all the echoes
Of words left unsaid
All the chances I wasted
Running circles in my head
The clock spins backward, time's a snare
A fading echo, a fractured prayer
The floor dissolves beneath my feet
A ghostly hum, a broken beat
I'm good at pretending
That I'm perfectly fine
But you see straight through
Every crack in the lie
Pre-Chorus – call + response
You don't flinch when I fall
You don't turn when I'm weak
You stay when I'm silent
Say everything I can't speak
A million voices, none are mine
A twisted dance in borrowed time
I reach for something, find it's air
The silence laughs, it doesn't care
Chorus – darker
I look at myself
I don't know what you see in me
When I'm losing the war
With the voice inside of me
Into the abyss
I'm sinking low
No light to follow
No place to go
If love is a mirror
I'm scared of what it'll be
Tell me what you see in me
Into the abyss
The darkness sways
Caught in the rhythm of endless days
Bridge – lift
Maybe I'm not broken
Maybe just bent
Maybe I'm learning
What all this pain meant
Into the abyss
I'm sinking low…
A million voices, none are mine…
If you can love me
When I'm barely holding on
Maybe I've been wrong
All along
Final Chorus – build
I look in the mirror
And it's not just defeat
I see a little hope
Looking back at me
Into the abyss
But there's a glow
A faint reflection
A place to go
Through your eyes
I'm more than I seem
Now I'm starting to see
What you see in me
Outro
I don't hate what I see
Not tonight
Not completely
Into the abyss…
I rise, I breathe
Now I'm starting to see
What you see in me
