You keep forgetting the lines,
  the lines that show,
 where you were bound
 long ago.
Animal in the mirror.

Live out another mise en scene,
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?

[fun guitar]

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?

[more fun guitar]

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?

[even more fun guitar. longer this time.]