You keep forgetting the lines, the lines that show   Where you were bound long ago   Animal in the mirror      Live out another mise en scène   Somebody else's summer again   Animal in the mirror      And stop this pretending, there's plenty of time   All your happy endings, will they never find   Animal in the mirror?      Excited night, flickering trade   A bag of nerves on a balustrade   Animal in the mirror      Slow dissolve in tears, tears that chart   How we're the same, the same worlds apart   Animal in the mirror      Stop this pretending, there's plenty of time   All your happy endings, will they never find   Animal in the mirror?      "Oh Lord", I spoke up this morning   I had nothing to say   Above the hum of another   Raw and exquisite day      Lord, I broke up this morning   I rose in pieces and dreams   I was running late and scared in Paris   In springtime and fog juice streams      Forget your lines, the lines that show   Where you were bound long ago   Animal in the mirror      Slow dissolve in tears that chart   How we're the same, the same worlds apart   Animal in the mirror      After a fashion, after a fall   After reality, after all   Animal in the mirror      Stop this pretending, there's plenty of time   All your happy endings, will they never find   Animal in the mirror?