Elizabeth: I. Mirror Mirror Lyrics

Elizabeth I. Mirror Mirror

Mirror can you tell me
How to stay forever young

Let me know the secret
I will hold my twisted tongue
Please protect my beauty
Velvet skin so pure and white
Hear my name resounding
Like a hymn at dead of night

Once I struck a servant
She's a virgin free from sin
Drops of blood caressed me
And refined my aging skin


Could this be the answer
Uncorrupted carmine red
Voices keep resounding
In my dazed bewildered head


Have I found myself eternity
Someone has heard my prayers
Now I'll become divine

Have I found myself divinity
I'm no longer a slave
To the vicious hands of time
Elizabeth
Wake up
Elizabeth
Wake up

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Genius Annotation

This is the first song of a three-part series that retells the story of Countess Elizabeth Báthory, who was a real person and serial killer. While the legends around her are more famous than the verifiable facts, Kamelot’s retelling lies somewhere in between the history and the legend. It tells the story from her perspective, with evil taking center stage, analogous to John Gardner’s Grendel or John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

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What did Kamelot say about "Elizabeth: I. Mirror Mirror"?
Genius Answer

Guitarist Thomas Youngblood said that if he could be remembered for only one body of work, he would want it to be the Elizabeth Trilogy. He also said that the album art depicts Elizabeth.

Credits
Recorded At
Gate Studio, Wolfsburg, Germany
Release Date
July 9, 2001
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