===================================================================== Pandora's Box - Original Sin -"I've Been Dreaming Up A Storm Lately" ===================================================================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- I've Been Dreaming Up A Storm Lately --------------------------------------------------------------------- (All spoken by Jim Steinman) Ah, come on Come on Let me tell you all about it We got all the time in the world That's good That's nice I've been dreaming up a storm lately over and over again, now I can't stop, can't stop Dreaming about mirrors Millions of mirrors An endless army of mirrors, out of control, reflecting people to death To blindness and then death On, the mirrors kept getting larger They kept growing, swelling They kept spreading out And now I can't seem to stop them They're still growing and I can't seem to stop them I have to keep filling them up, I have to keep feeding them, And they still getting larger and larger The mirrors have become vast and beautiful and very, very hungry Hungrier than I've ever been Too hungry I no longer have any control over what they show me or what they see They decide themselves what they would like to reflect They won't obey me! They create a reflection and then, then I have to go out and find the real thing that matches it And almost always when I put the real thing in front of the mirrors, It is not nearly as beautiful as the reflection that came first And at that point, I have to destroy the real thing, and go out looking again Until finally, I find another real thing, a thing that does match what's inside the mirror And is truely worthy of the beautiful reflection that came first I almost never find it And the mirrors get even hungrier Pretty soon now they're going to devour me They're going to swallow me up - Piece by piece, bit by bit, shiver and shiver, tremble by tremble, sliver by sliver, and splinter by splinter! Ah but you can help me, please They want you They've given me your image, before I ever saw you they gave me your image, please I'd like to make you one of my reflections and feed you to the mirrors I only need one more to fill them up, and if it were you, I feel that they would be satisfied, as I would be Please You have such a beautiful reflection Don't ever waste it Now! Your place or mine? ---------------------------------------------------------------------