Song
Mirror and Dream
From the release: Soliloquies
Lyrics
[Intro – echoing guitar arpeggios, synth shimmer, steady tom beat]
[Verse 1]
I see a face upon the glass,
It fades away, it will not last.
Dreams of night, they rise and fall,
But shadows prove the light of all.
[Pre-Chorus]
Even lies can point the way,
Falsity still needs the day.
[Chorus]
Mirror and dream, likeness and light,
Shadows reveal what burns in the night.
Mirror and dream, the false and the true,
All of them whisper, “Truth carries you.”
[Verse 2]
An actor plays another’s name,
Yet the stage still tells the same.
An oar seems broken in the stream,
But water bends the sight, not the dream.
[Pre-Chorus]
False reflections, shifting skies,
Still betray where truth abides.
[Chorus]
Mirror and dream, likeness and light,
Shadows reveal what burns in the night.
Mirror and dream, the false and the true,
All of them whisper, “Truth carries you.”
[Bridge – soaring guitar solo over minor progression, echo delay]
[Final Chorus – big harmonies, synth choir under guitars]
Mirror and dream, likeness and light,
Shadows reveal what burns in the night.
Mirror and dream, the false and the true,
All of them whisper, “Truth carries you.”
[Outro – clean guitar fade, synth echo trailing]
Song Meaning
“Mirror and Dream” comes from Augustine’s long meditation on falsity, likeness, images, reflections, dreams, actors, pictures, shadows, and the oar that appears bent in water. In the Soliloquies, false things are not pure nothing. They often imitate the true while failing to be what they appear. A mirror image looks like a face but is not a living person. A dream figure resembles a real man but cannot be grasped. A stage actor may be a false character and still a true actor. This song uses those images to explore how even falsity depends on truth. Shadows, likenesses, and distortions can deceive, but they also reveal that truth is the measure by which they are judged. The track is about learning not to be trapped by appearances, but to let every false reflection point back toward the light it imitates.
Song Inspiration
Saint Augustine’s Soliloquies, especially its reflections on mirrors, dreams, shadows, images, actors, false likenesses, and the way falsity imitates truth.
From the Source
Supporting passages from the Augustinus Vox Standard Version (AVSV). Select a source to read it in context.
Does your image in a mirror not seem to wish, as it were, to be you yourself, but to be false because it is not you?
Therefore, if it benefits certain things, so that they may be something true, that they be something false, why do we fear falsities so greatly and seek truth as a great good?
Additional Details
Song Style: atmospheric synths, rock, slow, dynamic tempo shifts, 80s rock ballad, ballad, epic guitar riffs, male vocals
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