As I stand behind this looking glass,
I never once knew
what heartbreak would feel like
when the person you love is beside you
sleeping, walking, dreaming, smiling,

As I stand behind this looking glass
I never thought you could be too selfless
when it comes to the person you love,
when you believe anything you do for them
is not yet enough.

As I stand behind this looking glass,
I never understood how it feels,
to look at the one you love smiling
and feel such despair,

As I stand behind this looking glass,*
I never knew you could give so much
to the one you love who takes it all,
and I never noticed the film over my eyes,
I never thought about loneliness; at all,


As I stand behind this looking glass,
all these thoughts come rushing in,
And I fight my watery red eyes,
And all the thoughts that I've given to him,

As I stand behind this looking glass,
I scream to him
"Why are you so far away?"
Yet he is right here next to me,
But his eyes do not see me,
The looking glass is what he sees,

And as I stand behind this looking glass,
I've realized now what I've not wanted to show,
And because he fails understand,
I wonder if he will never know.