Magic Mirror

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2014

Leon Russell Songs Illustrated

CARNEY

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Magic Mirror

Music & lyrics by Leon Russell 1976

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I'm standing by the highway

Suitcase by my side

There's no place I want to go

I just thought I'd catch a ride

 

Many people look my way

And many pass me by

In moments of reflection

I wonder why

 

To the thieves I am a bandit

The mothers think I'm a son

To the preachers I'm a sinner

Lord I'm not the only one

 

To the sad ones I'm unhappy

To the losers I'm a fool

To the students I'm a teacher

With the teachers I'm in school

 

To the hobos I'm imprisoned by everything I own

To the soldier I'm just someone else who's dying to go home

The general sees a number, a politician's tool

To my friends I'm just an equal in this whirlpool

 

Magic mirror won't you tell me please

Do I find myself in anyone I see?

Magic mirror if we only could

Try to see ourselves as others would

 

To policeman I'm suspicious it's in the way I look

I'm just another character to fingerprint and book

To the censors I'm pornography with no redeeming grace

To hooker I'm a customer without a face

 

The sellers think I'm merchandise, they'll help me for a song

The left ones think I'm right,

The right ones think I'm wrong

And many people look my way

And many pass me by

And in my quiet reflection I wonder why

 

Magic mirror won't you tell me please

Do I see myself in anyone I meet?

Magic mirror if we only could

Try to see ourselves as others would

 

 

 

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