Mirror by Kaleah, © 2007, Firedance Records all rights reserved   Who is the woman I see in the mirror She’s been with me so long Her face is so clear to me Hai Hai Yai, Hai, Hai, Yai…. I remember the little girl How she was crucified Put through the test to see If she would survive Hai, Hai Yai, Hai Hai, Yai… Who is the woman I see in the mirror Her face growing older Year after year. Hai, Hai Yai, Hai Hai, Yai…   Listen to This Song!

Mirror is a song I wrote about my relationship with myself, or the woman in the mirror. It is a song about survival, getting through the rough parts of life.

The one relationship that is always with us is the one we have with ourselves. We sometimes have to overcome some pretty difficult challenges in order to triumph in our lives. As a child I really went through it. I was highly psychically sensitive but had no clue what that meant. I just know I felt everything and everyone around me which made me a target for human hatred. People don't like it when you see right into them. Somehow they know you do.

I talk about remembering the girl who was crucified. When I was in fifth grade the class bully came up to me and slugged me so hard I fell down in the hallway of our school. I remember innocently looking up at him and asking "why did you do that!" His reply was "because you are so ugly!" I grew up believing it was my ugliness that made me so hated. I now realize it was his own ugliness he was running from. I was simply a mirror for him to see his own repressed self-hatred.

I went through anorexia, bulimia, abusive relationships and all sorts of challenges on my journey. However there was always something within me that kept me moving forward and growing. I never allowed anyone to take me down, at least not for long, because I always found strength in that woman in the mirror. Over the years she stuck with me and together we have done some pretty awesome things.

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