The Who's Tommy - Smash the Mirror Lyrics

1993 Broadway
The Who's Tommy the Musical - Smash the Mirror Lyrics

MRS. WALKER:
You don't answer my call
With even a nod or a wink
But you gave at your own reflection!
You don't seem to see me
But I think you can see yourself.
How can the mirror affect you?
Can you hear me
Or do I surmise
That you fear me?
Can you feel my temper
Rise, rise, rise, rise
Rise, rise, rise, rise
Rise, rise, rise, rise
Rise!
Do you hear or fear me or
Do I smash the mirror?
Do you hear or fear me or
Do I smash the mirror?

(Mrs. Walker tries to pull Tommy away from the mirror,
but each time one of the younger Tommys appears in the mirror,
Tommy tries to move toward the image of the child.)

Do you hear or fear me or
Do I smash the mirror?

(Mrs. Walker picks up a chair
and threatens to smash the mirror with it)

MRS. WALKER:
Do you hear or fear or
Do I smash the mirror?

(In the mirror, appears the image of the terrified 4 year-old Tommy
on the night of the killing long ago.
Mrs. Walker furiously swings back the chair: Darkness.
The crash of breaking glass and the sound of a gunshot.
In the background are projections
of a shattered house and the Lover falling dead. )

(The mirror has been completely smashed.
Tommy looks around and sees
everything in the room.
He stands in the spot where the lover was killed and
kneels to touch the floor.
He looks at his mother and reaches out to touch her.
She embraces him, but he does not return it.
she rushes off to get Mr. Walker.)

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