Marit Larsen is ashamed of herself for yelling hurtful words to her boyfriend in the prosiac "Mirror Mirror."
A dramatic piano and Larsen's rueful vocals start the single. It sets a self-pitying tone. She asks the mirror to tell what she wants to hear: that she's really a good person.
"Mirror mirror lie to me/
Show me what I wanna see/Mirror mirror lie to me."
Larsen hates herself and can barely meet her own eyes in the mirror. She called her a boyfriend a pathetic, two-timing jerk. She didn't mean any of what she said. It just spilled out of her mouth. She criticizes herself. She says she's dumb and a psycho who went berserk for no reason.
"Why don't I like the girl I see/The one who's standing right in front of me/Why don't I think before I speak/I should have listened to that voice inside me/I must be stupid, must be crazy, must be out of my mind/To say the kind of things I said last night."
In the chorus, she says the mirror doesn't need to tell her that she's loser. She's been tearing herself down since her boyfriend left. He swore he wouldn't talk to ever again. Larsen think she deserves to never be spoken to by anyone ever again.
"Mirror mirror hanging on the wall/You don't have to tell me who's the biggest fool of all/Mirror mirror I wish you could lie to me/And bring my baby back, bring my baby back to me."
Larsen once again tells the mirror to show her and her boyfriend being friends again.
"Mirror mirror lie to me...show me what I wanna see."
At the end of the fight, he said he was going to leave and never come back. She yelled back, "fine!" She kicks herself for not apologizing to him. But she couldn't allow herself to admit to herself she was wrong. She's the one who picked the argument over something petty. She was the one who started the name-calling. Everything was her fault. She now knows that whatever the fight about was insignificant. The only thing that matters is getting her boyfriend to talk to her again.
" Why did I let you walk away/When all I had to do was say I'm sorry/I let my pride get in the way/And in the heat of the moment I was to blame/I must be stupid, must be crazy, must be out of my mind/Now in the cold light of the day I realize."
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1 - Aaman
prosaic is the word of the day