So here I am, I'm a man and that little boy   Tied down deep within me   You have broken your word   I'm sorry that I bowed once again   And let the monsters loose   You can't understand it, you can't understand what it's like   The world which we live in   Feel I'm tearing up inside, I'm losing my mind      One look and the clown in the mirror says,   "Hi, I'm still here waiting   And time is no longer on your side."      A part of him dies, another one lives in the mirror      And his legacy reigns   But I won't follow you   In the shadows I cry   Closer to heaven I fail      I still remember the words that the little boy   I once was, were told   Son, order rises from fear   Oh, how I swore I'd fight what he was   And I'd never be like him   I was such a fool, an ignorant fool to believe   A man can control how he's living out his life   Or change anything      One look and the clown in the mirror says,   "Hi, I'm still here waiting   And time is no longer on your side."      A part of him dies, another one lives in the mirror      And his legacy reigns   But I won't follow you   In the shadows I cry   Closer to heaven I fail      So here I am, I'm a man in a cynical world   Filled with compromises   A tyrant sighs in the mirror   I know now I've been weak and afraid   And turned the other cheek   He knows I can't stand it   He know I can't stand that I am a pawn in his puzzle   And still waiting in the wings, the ghost of my past      One look and the clown in the mirror says,   "Hi, I'm still here waiting   And time is no longer on your side."      A part of him dies, another one lives in the mirror      And his legacy reigns   But I won't follow you   In the shadows I cry   Closer to heaven I fail (x2)