Mirrors
J. Mitchell Lyrics

I used to give you too much power
I used to allow you to control my life but not anymore

Trust me, them days is over
You can no longer control me or have power over me

Can't understand how I Let you sit on my shoulders
I can't believe I allowed you to put me under so much pressure and weight

Them times when you messed up I made escuses for And I always knew it, that I should have headed for the door
Even when you made mistakes, I made excuses for you and I knew I should have left you long ago

But I stayed and you played the right way in your place And I prayed everytime you was away you'd see my face But the me was you, and your Pain was mine, and the Same situation playing over in my mind It seems
I stayed with you and you behaved when you were around, but I was suffering too and the same situations replayed in my head

Ain't tryna hear you Just tryna hear me Don't wanna hear nothing, baby it's selfishly I blaming you for the hurt in me, but it's not your fault that I'm so incomplete
I am only listening to my own thoughts and feelings because I am selfishly blaming you for my pain, even though it is my own insecurities and incompleteness causing it

You see everytime I do it do it I seem to ruin Got this funny way of falling in love And it's effecting how I'm breathing Effecting how I'm eating Seems like I'm all up on drugs So beg you my pardon Loving you deep in my heart And I can't take no more I'm looking for the problem Standing over the seek One thing I found, I had to take a look in mirror See I can't leave you, until I learn to leave me
Every time I fall in love, I tend to self-destruct and it affects me physically and emotionally. I apologize for loving you so deeply but I need to find the root of my problems and fix myself before I can leave you

What was I thinking That you could talk to me like that You was holding me down, but I was holding me back Looking inside myself, and has to see who I am, cause this is my trial, affecting my smile I'm gotta walk (?), this is gonna be a while
I can't believe I allowed you to speak to me so poorly, but ultimately it was myself holding me back. I need to look within myself to see who I truly am and fix my problems. This is my difficult journey but it will take a while

Everything I thought I knew All them times I ran away You see, really I was running for me I know constantly we're trying, we was living in a lie Finally looked into mirror to see Probably would have left you sooner, but I was being scared, that ain't how I ever should be Yeah I was searching for a while for the sores of the problem One thing I found, I had to take a look in the mirror
I thought I knew everything and I ran away often, but I was actually running from myself. We were constantly trying but living a lie, until I finally looked within myself to see the problem. I was scared to leave you, but that's not who I should be. I searched for answers for a while and realized that I need to take a look in the mirror to fix myself before leaving you