Mirror Images (live) Lyrics - Van Der Graaf Generator

If I'm the mirror and you're the image 

Then what's the secret between the two 

These me's and you's, how many can there be 

Oh, I don't mind all that around the place 

As long as you keep it 

Well away from me 

I've begun to regret that we ever met 

Between the dimensions 

It gets such a strain to pretend that the change 

Is anything but cheap 

With your infant pique and your angst pretensions 

Sometimes you act like a creep 

And now I'm standing in the corner 

Looking at the room and the furniture 

In cheap imitation of alienation and grief 

And now we're going to the kitchen 

Fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette 

Getting no closer to being the joker or thief 

Still, I reflect, this nervous wreck 

Who stands before me can see as well 

Can surely tell that he's not yet free 

He can turn aside, but can no more ignore me 

Than know which one of us is he 

Than tell what we are going to be 

Than know which one of is me 

And now we're going to the kitchen 

Fix ourselves a drink and a cigarette 

Getting no closer to being the joker or thief 

These mirror images 

These mirror images 

Won't stay, go away, are no help 

In these mirror images of myself 

There are no secrets