Phil Keaggy

The Mirror

Phil Keaggy


You sit there and listen, I sit here and play 
But I wonder sometimes 
If the words and the lines 
Just get lost on the way. 
Reader to writer and poet to pen, 
Still I go on in the hope 
That a song's getting through 
Now and again. 

A song changes nothing, at least it can try 
To give us a reason to look at our lives. 
It changes nothing, at best it can try 
To hold up the mirror of our lives. 

We scatter our feelings like seeds that we sow, 
But only God understands the heart of the man 
In the twenty-fifth row. 
You sit there and listen, I sit here and play, 
But without love you've got nothing to hear 
And I've got nothing to say. 

A song changes nothing, at least it can try 
To give us a reason to look at our lives. 
It changes nothing, at best it can try 
To hold up the mirror of our lives