Reflected Back
I knew a girl who had a broken mirror for a heart
Someone had shattered it to silver shards
The damage was too deep for tears but when she pieced it back
It glittered with the matrix of the scars
And it was real deceptive because all that fractured glass
Could throw off such an iridescent light
You’d see the flash of what you’d swear was everlasting love
If the angles of attraction were just right
And brother there’s your double heartbreak fate
The more you’d love the more she’d radiate
And those flashes really were love that’s a fact
But it was just your love reflected back
Now by the time I happenstanced to walk into her live
She’d taken lots of shots at love and missed
Her heart was liable to blaze out in any which direction
Like a July drunk with sparklers in her fist
I swear to god you could not get a fix on her at all
Your moral compass would just go haywire
There was no come-on in her smile, no want-you in her words
And yet when in your arms she’d catch on fire
And brother there’s your double heartbreak fate
The more you’d burn the more she’d radiate
And those flashes really were fire, that’s a fact
But it was just your fire reflected back
I knew a girl who had a broken mirror for a heart
And all its edges were a razor-wired line
And as tough luck would have it every time I tried to touch her heart
The only blood that I could draw was mine
And brother there’s my double heartbreak twice
One night that mirror flash-froze up with ice
And those flashes really were cold, that’s a fact
But it was just my ice reflected back