Mirrors don’t lie

I don’t recognize the man in the glass

Same face, different eyes in the mask

He looks tired, like he don’t believe

In the words that he keeps telling me

I say “I’m fine,” he tilts his head

Like he knows what I never said

He sees the doubt behind my grin

He sees the war that I’m living in

I’ve been trying to be someone new

But I still feel like someone who

Is haunted by the past I wear

Like it’s stitched in my skin and hair

Every scar, every broken plan

Feels like proof that I’m not who I am

I wanna grow, but the mirror says

“You’re still just a scared little kid”

I can lie to everyone else

But I can’t lie to my own eyes

Mirrors don’t lie

They see what I hide

Every crack in the confidence

Every tear I deny

Mirrors don’t lie

They know all my fears

They show me the truth

I’ve been running from for years

I can change my clothes

I can change my style

I can fake a smile

But not for a while

Mirrors don’t lie

When I look inside

They tell me I’m still fighting for my life

I talk about healing like I’m almost there

But the mirror says “you’re barely repaired”

I keep saying “I’m doing okay”

But my eyes tell a different way

I see the nights I couldn’t sleep

All the promises I couldn’t keep

All the times I said I’d change

Then fell right back into the same

I wanna love who I become

But I don’t know who that is yet

I’m caught between the person I was

And someone I haven’t met

Fear looks back when I look in

Like he lives behind my skin

Every time I try to move on

He just smirks and pulls me in

Pre-Chorus

I can fool the whole damn world

But I can’t fool the face I see

Mirrors don’t lie

They see what I hide

Every fear that I bury

Every tear I deny

Mirrors don’t lie

They know where I’ve been

They show me the cracks

I’m afraid to let in

I can change my name

I can change my plans

I can try to be

A different man

Mirrors don’t lie

When I’m alone at night

They tell me I’m still losing this fight

Maybe I don’t hate who I am

Maybe I’m just scared to accept

That I’m not the version of me

That I thought I would get

Maybe healing isn’t becoming perfect

Maybe it’s learning to see

The broken parts of myself

And still calling that me

Mirrors don’t lie

But they don’t condemn

They just show me the truth

I keep running from

I’m not who I was

I’m not who I’ll be

I’m just someone learning

How to finally see

Mirrors don’t lie

But maybe that’s good

If I know where I’m broken

I know where I should

Start putting myself back together inside