Pictures of Purple People Lyrics

Words & Music by Marc Bolan
Recorded by Marc Bolan - solo 1966

I saw this mirror, I looked through it.
Reflections looked most bend and all,
Caring too much, hating hatred..
Seeing things deformed and almost cold.

Crying sadly, shielding gladly my eyes.
From the ugly side of fat men seeing, almost,
Thin men peeping, sleeping, looking, falling,
Dizzy from their weirdest high.

The men of magic thinking all the evil.
He was bringing sunless children.
Seeing all the bad,
'Cos beauty was too ugly
And faceless people,
Wondered at the beautiful forms they had.

Now the mirror's broken.
I'm smiling, seeing good things.
Get the spiteful splitters swirl in the air.
Forever causing beauty,
To become at night time,
Weird things blackening the fairest maiden's hair.

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Pictures Of Purple People
Words & Music by Marc Bolan
Recorded by Tyrannosaurus Rex for BBC Radio on 30.10.1967

I saw this mirror, I looked through it
Reflections looked most bend and all
Caring too much, hating hatred
Seeing things deformed and almost cold

(Na na na...)

Crying sadly, shielding gladly my eyes
From the ugly side of fat men seeing, almost
Thin men peeping, sleeping, looking, falling
Dizzy from their weirdest high

(Na na na...)

Now the mirror's broken
I'm smiling, seeing good things
Got the spiteful splitters swirl in the air
Forever causing beauty
To become at night time
Weird things blackening the fairest maiden's hair

Believed in my, my...
I don't care!

(Na na na...)