Face In The Mirror - Kevin Coyne

Looks like a face in the mirror

That awful face in the mirror

White and sad and so unkind

Looks like a face in the mirror

Like a stagnant river

Flowing deaf and cross and blind

Looks like a face in the mirror

That lost face in the mirror

Searching for a happy mind

Looks like a face in the mirror

Margaret’s face in the mirror

Waiting, waiting for the time

I know I wasn’t right

I was invariably wrong

I always sang a song

When I should have been weeping

I know I laughed with you

As you stood by the door it’s true

As you landed in my garden, creeping

Looks like a face in the mirror

Your round face in the mirror

Lips all red and ready for bed

Looks like a face in the mirror

Oh your face in the mirror

The signs of hatred on your forehead

Yes it looks like a face in the mirror

That awful face in the mirror

Remembering every little word I said

Oh it looks like a face in the mirror

And I don’t even have to forgive her

She acts as if I was already dead

Oh I tried so hard, tried the big trump card

But I know you said I was lying

I know that you waited and waited

Waited and waited and grated

Listening, listening, listening and I was alive, I was alive

Oh it looks like a face in the mirror

Margaret’s face in the mirror

Listening for for my little tune

Well I see your face in the mirror

Oh your laughing face in the mirror

And I know you’ve been consulting the runes

Card after card fall on the table

Each one willing and able

To send me to some sort of matrimonial doom

Yes yes, yes it’s your face in the mirror

Oh your face in the mirror

Take away that darkness and that gloom, gloom, gloom

Well I told you again

Don’t come here, amen

I don’t want you around anymore

Your parents will come to collect you

Big Father’s there to correct you

He will take you away to his den

So it looks like your face in the mirror

My face is there with her

Snap the marriage and the fate

Yes yes yes that’s your face in the mirror

All sepia in the mirror,

Standing by your garden gate