[00:08.05]When a man of my age shaves his face in the morning,
[00:11.91]
[00:12.80]Who is it that stares back and greets him?
[00:15.60]
[00:16.53]The ghost of his father long dead all these years?
[00:19.29]
[00:20.27]Or the boy that he was, still wet in the ears?
[00:23.33]
[00:24.47]Or the terrible sum of all of his fears,
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[00:28.46]In the eyes of this stranger who meets him?
[00:30.95]
[00:33.17]So his glance rarely strays from his chin or his jawline,
[00:36.04]
[00:36.72]To face up to the truth of his soul,
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[00:40.65]It's the eyes he avoids so afraid to acknowledge,
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[00:44.52]Something strange, unexpected, out of control.
[00:47.86]
[00:49.11]There are times when a man needs to brave his reflection,
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[00:54.04]And face what he sees without fear,
[00:55.73]
[00:57.53]It takes a man to accept his mortality,
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[01:01.67]Or be surprised by the presence of a tear.
[01:04.91]
[01:07.85]It was only an arrangement, a practical arrangement,
[01:11.72]
[01:13.33]I forgot the first commandment of the realist's handbook,
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[01:18.15]Don't be fooled by illusions you created yourself,
[01:21.95]
[01:23.39]And fall in love with someone, when she loves someone else.
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[01:34.50]Like a covering of snow on a winter's night,
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[01:40.87]It glistens and it sparkles in the moonlight,
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[01:45.85]But it's gone by the morning, how quickly it melts,
[01:50.30]
[01:54.66]You still love her but she loves someone else.
[02:02.15]
[02:10.69]And where does that leave you?
[02:12.13]
[02:13.12]You self-styled man of vision.
[02:15.06]
[02:15.94]You feel stupid, you feel angry, are you losing your mind?
[02:20.24]
[02:21.36]To destroy the one she loves, does that become your mission?
[02:25.92]
[02:27.10]Like a pantomime villain with an axe to grind?
[02:31.04]
[02:32.67]To regain your self-respect, hold your head up like a man,
[02:37.21]
[02:38.28]Use the ice around your heart before it melts,
[02:43.15]
[02:46.03]But you're not fooling anybody, you're only fooling yourself.
[02:53.95]
[02:59.13]Like a covering of snow on a winter's night,
[03:02.94]
[03:05.37]It glistens and it sparkles in the moonlight,
[03:08.56]
[03:10.49]But it's gone by the morning, how quickly it melts,
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[03:19.84]You still love her but she loves someone else.