Revolving Around My Looking Glass

I lean too close to the bathroom light

Towel on my shoulder like I won a fight

And there it is, that half-bald place

Where tomorrow's hand might smooth my face

I tilt my head, let the ceiling glow

Like a small moon in this room I know

I grin and say, Well, look who's near

Hello to my years, come on in here

I'm turning left, I'm turning right

Chasing angles in the light

Like time's a record on the turn

I laugh so I don't have to run

I'm revolving around my looking glass

Spinning present into past

Shine from my head-I hear it said

A glowing pate where the light is cast

If it comes, let it come-no shame, no mask

I'll leave my jokes like the trail I pass

Yeah, I'm revolving around my looking glass

I point at the mirror, Captain Chrome

you doing alright in that future home

Do birds salute you when you rise and wake

Do you blind bad thoughts with the shine you make

I lift my brows like a curtain call

And the echo laughs from the tiled wall

Then softer-Old me, hear this too

I hope you're kinder than I've been to you

I hope you learned to say "I'm scared

Without pretending you don't care

I hope you kept what mattered most

And let the rest go like a ghost

I'm revolving around my looking glass

Spinning present into past

Shine from my head-I hear it said

A glowing pate where the light is cast

If it comes, let it come-no shame, no mask

I'll leave my jokes like the trail I pass

Yeah, I'm revolving around my looking glass

And for a moment the laughter clears

And I see the shape of my better years

Not losing, not ending, not getting... less

Just opening up into honestness

The mirror fogs when I breathe too hard

Like the future blurring its postcard

I tap the glass like, Will I know me

When I get there, and still be free