Smoke and Mirrors

I've been staying up too late Trying to right some perceived wrong And now my head feels thick and heavy It's getting hard to drag these words along But I need sleep deprivation I need alpha wave intrusion I need magical thinking Because I lost all my old illusions Oh, love is a bad word Because we don't all agree on what it means There were rumors of a fire Unsubstantiated claims Now that all the smoke is gone Only the mirror remains I keep finding this residue on all of my things No matter how many times I clean It's masking all familiar scents It's clogging the works of all my old machines And I still wonder who's at fault I want to know whom I should blame I don't know how to keep score But I want to win this game Oh, light a camera Shrink this sunrise down to something you can control Make a copy of a face But you still can't keep the soul And I still trip over the strings That I attached to all these things That I once thought would make me whole Oh, and it's still a mad world Cause we just can't all agree on what it should be Yeah, but history never changes It just keeps getting harder to explain And after all the smoke is gone Only the mirror will remain