Lyrics to
Mirrors

This version of Mirrors was released by Blue Oyster Cult in 1979.

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A mirror is a negative space
With a frame and a place for your face
It reveals what the rest of us see
It conceals what you’d like it to be

Pretty girls can’t look away
Pretty girls can’t look away
Pretty girls can’t look away
Pretty girls can’t look away

Pretty girls have a love affair
With their eyes and their shining hair
Fantasize that the world adores
Tantalize like a cover girl

Mirrors are the basis of beauty
Give rise to self love or self pity
The prize if a woman is pretty
She tries like a superstar Hollywood girl

Pretty girls can’t look away
Pretty girls can’t look away
Pretty girls can’t look away
Pretty girls can’t look away

Vanity’s a deadly sin
It’s what the flesh is packaged in
Vanity’s a deadly sin
It’s what the flesh is packaged in

A mirror is a negative space
With a frame and a place for your face
It reveals what the rest of us see
It conceals what you’d like it to be

Vanity’s a deadly sin
It’s what the flesh is packaged in

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About Lyrics and Mirrors by Blue Oyster Cult

When you decide to study the lyrics to Mirrors, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Blue Oyster Cult. Some of the lyrics to Mirrors have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Blue Oyster Cult and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Mirrors if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Mirrors" means the words set to the music of Mirrors, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Blue Oyster Cult. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Mirrors and the lyrics to Mirrors are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Blue Oyster Cult who came here looking just for the lyrics to Mirrors, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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