The Lady's Mirror

[bnewman]

A glimpse into the Mirror of Galadriel.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Lies" by Stan Rogers

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She fills a silver pitcher from the brook

Pours clear water in the basin and invites her guest to look:

In the mirror many visions you will see

Things that were and things that are and things that may yet come to be

 

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I won't say if you should look or not, but don't be led astray

For some fates may not befall unless you turn out of your way

To prevent the very vision you escry

But the mirror of the Lady does not lie

 

/ Am(G CD) C - / G -Am D - / 1st / G - / A - C / D G - /

 

No lies...

The Lady's mirror will never tell you lies

Lies?  No lies...

Such riddles ripple through this place

To take them at face value is unwise

But none of them are lies

 

The hobbit steps up to the shining pool

Silence fills the forest, and the night is clear and cool

The shallow basin now seems deep and vast

His gaze is drawn beneath the surface and the vision holds him fast

 

And it shows him mighty fortresses, and armies on the move

'Til he starts in sudden sadness for the Shire that he loves

For the mirror seems to show him its demise

And he cries aloud:  Please tell me that it lies!

 

No lies...

 

She says:  I have no words to reassure

For all things now are changing and none shall stand secure

The visions that the mirror shows are true

But the truths we touch depend so much upon our point of view

 

Before you saw this vision, you were resolved to go

On the dark and eastward journey, to an end you do not know

I, too, have seen the Shadow has an Eye

Yet even He can't make my mirror tell a lie

 

No lies...