Songwriter: Steven Sater Duncan Sheik
Producer: Duncan Sheik
There is a swan-white curtain
Somewhere within the sky
It's known of every sermon
Every anguished cry -
The howls of hopeless people
Frightened and alone
There is a spotless silver mirror
That hangs within the moon
It's witness every winter
The cities charred and ruined -
The herds of homeless people
Filling all the roads...
Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Bullets paint the blue distance
The mirror's stained from every gun
Still, I say that it glistens
In the heart of everyone
And there are golden whispers
Within the afternoon
They've held the brothers, sister...
Felt the mothers' wounds
The broken-hearted people
Burying their own...
Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Strike the bell, and we listen
Light the candle, and we're shown
The gods themselves throwing incense
As all the world begins to glow...
Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone...
Somewhere within the sky
It's known of every sermon
Every anguished cry -
The howls of hopeless people
Frightened and alone
There is a spotless silver mirror
That hangs within the moon
It's witness every winter
The cities charred and ruined -
The herds of homeless people
Filling all the roads...
Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Bullets paint the blue distance
The mirror's stained from every gun
Still, I say that it glistens
In the heart of everyone
And there are golden whispers
Within the afternoon
They've held the brothers, sister...
Felt the mothers' wounds
The broken-hearted people
Burying their own...
Some may pray to their mirrors
Some may kneel before the sun
Me, I say there's a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Strike the bell, and we listen
Light the candle, and we're shown
The gods themselves throwing incense
As all the world begins to glow...
Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone
Such a flame, such a mirror
In the heart of everyone...
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Phantom Moon (2001)
Duncan Sheik popular songs
- Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind
- The Dark I Know Well
- The Song of Purple Summer
- Left Behind
- Those You’ve Known
- And Then There Were None
- The Word of Your Body
- Totally Fucked
- The Guilty Ones
- The Word of Your Body (Reprise)
- Whispering
- The Mirror-Blue Night
- I Believe
- Barely Breathing
- There Once Was a Pirate
- The Dawn’s Request
- I Wouldn’t Mind
- The End of Outside
- Wishful Thinking
- Nichiren
- Songbird
- Play Your Part
- On a High
- Such Reveries