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Reflection

from Queen City Quandaries by Old Empire

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When you've lived your whole life on the line,
Do you have what it takes to leave your past behind?
Would you have the courage to take the first step if I told you
What I learned along the way?

Do not seek your reflection in the eyes of another.
Do not seek your reflection in the eyes of another.

The young man looks within to find that he has sinned.
No, he never killed or stole. He didn't love himself.
He wakes to find his dreams all came from TV and magazines.
All of his desires had been sung by someone else.

Do not seek your reflection in the eyes of another.
Do not seek your reflection in the eyes of another
The image that you see, it won't ever set you free.
The image that you see, it won't ever, it can't ever set you free.

The woman gives her man all the love she can,
But she doesn't understand why it won't return.
She sits and thinks, alone, about all that she done wrong,
But the love you give may not be the love you earned.

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from Queen City Quandaries, released April 14, 2009

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