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Christina Aguilera - Reflection Lyrics

Song details
TitleReflection
ArtistChristina Aguilera
AlbumPrincess Disneymania [2008]
album from the movie Disneymania [2002], Track 5
Disneymania [2002]
album from the movie Disneymania [2002], Track 14
Christina Aguilera [1999], Track 6
Mulan [original soundtrack] [1998]
album from the movie Mulan [1998], Track 12
GenrePop
Duration03:23
Rank5,762 (+1,442) history »
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Song lyrics
Look at me
You may think you see
Who I really am
But you'll never know me
Everyday, it's as if I play a part

Now I see, if I wear a mask
I can fool the world
But I cannot fool my heart

Chorus:
Who is that girl I see,
Staring straight back at me?
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

I am now
In a world where I have to hide my heart,
And what I believe in
But somehow, I will show the world,
What's inside my heart,
And be loved for who I am

Chorus:
Who is that girl I see,
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection someone I dont know?
Must I pretend that I'm
Someone else for all time?
When will my reflection show who I am inside?

There's a heart that must be free to fly,
That burns with the need to know the reason why

Why must we all conceal,
What we think, how we feel?
Must there be a secret me I'm forced to hide?
I won't pretend that I'm someone else for all time
When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?

When will my reflection show
Who I am inside?
corrected on 25-11-2011


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 Song comments
  15-08-2009 02:27 Idahobabe 
Idahobabe
 
2 posts
[b]i love this song !! its the best and um not to brag but i can sing it way way good ahahah . i love it though i mean who doesnt go through finding themselves at one point or another ? the lyrics are great !
  11-11-2007 15:28 Petroviic 
Petroviic
 
2,517 posts
Really good song, Christinas voice is amazing.
  21-04-2007 17:18 mo_chuisle 
mo_chuisle
 
118 posts
soft and ... I like it
  18-01-2007 05:15 brown81 
brown81
 
1 posts
[b]reflections... i can see how girls can hear this song and say they relate because the words do say "who is that girl i see", cause yeah, some women do have to pretend to be something theyre not...

weird thing is, a song like this really hits home to many gay men and women, im sure... hiding who you are for societies sake, or for the sake of their family... i think this song is an anthem for many gays and lesbians.

its funny how some people in this world who love this song and say how they can "relate" to the song or how some people feel the song is written for them, are homophobes... [that comment is a general statement, im not accusing anyone who has posted above]
  15-01-2007 02:43 oh_its_tragikX 
oh_its_tragikX
 
78 posts
i love this song. it's a good example of something every girl goes through. i love it!

-linds
  14-10-2006 16:24 PopZtar 
PopZtar
 
65 posts
I really love this song !
I actually recognize myself in it
  04-03-2006 22:09 Far_Away 
Far_Away
 
66 posts
Don't take this the wrong way.. but whoever wrote that big long essay type thing.. WHAT?!

Anyway OMG I LOVVVVE THIS SONG! IT ROCKS! And it's not jus the lyrics.. it's the way xtina sings them! She puts all her feelings and emotions in it! Beautiful ! Christina you're jus one totally amazing person.. LOVE YOU!

AND It's from Mulan! Disney films are the most AMAZING things ever! ....After Christina of course

Disney + Christina Aguilera = Total Awesomeness

  02-11-2005 05:02 keshet13 
keshet13
 
7 posts
from an e-amail to a friend:...
I find that for some reason a lot of times when I mention that I like Christina
Aguillera I get a response from people that is sort of..."well...okay. I didn't know you were a teeny-bopper"--or some sort of innuendo like that--even my own teenage kids seem to feel that it's 'weird'-- its not the cool thing to do if you want to be 'not superficial.'...Yet, this seems to be the very attitude which generates the message of her song: that 'worldly' dismissal of someone, seen as a 'joke' in the eyes of the world--'my reflection'--someone who is not 'ME'--and is a 'joke' in the eyes of the world... I love her....But...likely her voice is so entrancing when she sings in Spanish--I only know the one CD--the Spanish version--that's the one I'd recommend. It doesn't matter if you can't understand the words--just listen to her sing...so you should get "Mi Reflejo"--NOT "My Reflection"--or whatever it is she may have called the English version---which I have never actually heard....actually, after I sent you the e-mail, I realized that the translation I did of that song was also inadequate--it is only because I e-mailed you that I noticed the deficiencies: here is a better translation:

.
For you ... what you see of me... is the reality... but you don't know... the role life makes me play...... where ... I'm a joke to ... the world around me... but to my own heart... NEVER... Today I couldn't recognize... the one I saw, across from me... My reflection did not show... who I am really...... One day more... my heart... I must conceal... for ME to feel... they will know... me... as I am... and I believe... really... this day will come..... Today I did not recognize... who I saw... across from me... that one... in my reflection... I know that it ,it isn't me ... I don't want the show... I want to be... REALITY... My reflection... did not show... who I am, really..... my heart, feeling... flying... where I am not... Since what I want is not... But I will... And I won't be like that... seeming to be what is not ... ALIVE... The one that I see... opposing me...
is no more... ....
Right now, I'm not pretending anymore...
not anymore...
One shining
day will come for me and ...
LOVE...
will rescue me...
and that day ...
I will be ,
ME
......
I may have mentioned to you that ,.this song entranced me and I carried the lyrics of it all the way to the beaches of Florida and never knew what it meant,but her voice told me what it must mean,Christina made me learn Spanish ,just to be sure. The right song is everything . When it is sung by the right person. It's all I need... Recently I related it to the poetry of Octavio Paz which I think I also sent you, on my website...and posted it for my teenage daughter Ruthie who was recently in the hospital and has been going thru some hard times...the song is her song--and most of us can sing about the same story of---always learning more, to be ...ourselves...




  02-11-2005 01:07 keshet13 
keshet13
 
7 posts
For you ... what you see of me... is the reality... but you don't know... the role life makes me play...... where ... I'm a joke to ... the world around me... but to my own heart... NEVER... Today I couldn't recognize... the one I saw, across from me... My reflection did not show... who I am really...... One day more... my heart... I must conceal... for ME to feel... they will know... me... as I am... and I believe... really... this day will come..... Today I did not recognize... who I saw... across from me... that one... in my reflection... I know that it , isn't me ... I don't want the show... I want to be... REALITY... My reflection... did not show... who I am, really..... my heart, feeling... flying... where I am not... Since what I want is not... But I will... And I won't be like that... seeming to be what is not ... ALIVE... The one that I see... opposing me... is no more... .... Right now, I'm not pretending anymore... no more... One shining day will come for me and ... LOVE... will rescue me... and that day ... I will be , ME ...... It is a song which is sung by Christina Aguillera, in the Spanish, at the end of her CD by the same name: Mi Reflejo: "My Reflection." She did a version of this in English translation also and the first translation I posted on my website was the one she sings in the English version along with another one that I got. ,Today, when I looked at it, I saw it wasn't right. Here is the true translation, my translation....This song entranced me and I carried the lyrics of it all the way to the beaches of Florida and never knew what it meant,but her voice told me what it must mean,Christina made me learn Spanish ,just to be sure...... The right song is everything . When it is sung by the right person. It's all I need...I invite members of this forum to visit my online forum, where recently I posted Christina's song in Spanish with three translations and discussion in which I related it to some great Spanish poetry by Octavio Paz, the Nobel laureate from Mexico...I posted this song for my 19 year-old daughter who has been in the hospital and is going through a critical time...The song is her own story. Yakov...
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  27-10-2005 02:44 CrunkRizzie 
CrunkRizzie
 
300 posts
I dont like her or this song..... ! I Love Britney Spears!
  29-08-2005 02:41 Jfizzle38 
Jfizzle38
 
1,602 posts
holy cow.. how out reaching omg good song
  01-07-2005 21:09 angiebaby33 
angiebaby33
 
54 posts
i love this song!!its the best i dont know how anyone could possibly not like this song!!
  30-06-2005 21:41 e80kse 
e80kse
 
1,401 posts
this song destroys. this is a good representation of chris's vocal skills. good song.
  21-06-2005 15:40 perfect_angel 
perfect_angel
 
6 posts
ok this song i know touch every1's heart. the message is so good and touching. her voice is so amazing. and i wanna point out that this song was suppose to be whitney houston's song but she cant do it. so just imagine being the second to whitney!! ppls plz dont compare her to britney spears, ok christina got a record deal b4 britney, britney wouldnt even have a chance to go through. britney just had a good marketing. anyways christina has a very powerful voice. she rocks
  07-06-2005 22:33 beware_criminal 
beware_criminal
 
189 posts
aww...
  01-06-2005 21:08 altosax 
altosax
 
1 posts
[topic=]this song speaks the truth ....and comes straight from the heart.........one of my favorites
  08-05-2005 03:31 allykatt 
allykatt
 
5 posts
can't...get...song...out...of...head...
the difference is, i really wouldn't want to. major kudos to disney for getting christina started off right. where she went from there? totally vomititious lol. n e way, this was a really great song, and really great for christina (and mulan, one of the best disney movies there is!! )
  06-05-2005 10:34 Love_Leo 
Love_Leo
 
18 posts
such beautiful song!!! I can have it on repeat a 1000 times, n never get bored of it
n it's sad 2

go Christina
  22-04-2005 07:17 619_el_poso 
619_el_poso
 
78 posts
The beautiful soundtrack ever !!
  26-03-2005 19:16 Bulla 
Bulla
 
16 posts
so good (;
  20-03-2005 11:39 cathy031890 
cathy031890
 
6 posts
dis song is so wonderful!!! as in sobra!!!

wla akng msbi!!!



pknggan u!!! tlagng mgnda!!!
  14-03-2005 03:40 zeushera 
zeushera
 
59 posts
i love this song but i like Britney more than Christina...> > >
  12-03-2005 03:26 Willowearthe 
Willowearthe
 
35 posts
OMG! I LOVE this song!!! I have loved it since it came out for Mulan.

"Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show, who I am inside?"

YOU GO GIRL!!

  24-02-2005 18:15 another_ditz 
another_ditz
 
2 posts
this song is really good...its like written about my life..this is like one of her best songs ever
  05-02-2005 20:57 rachxxxxxxxxxx 
rachxxxxxxxxxx
 
19 posts
i think christina aguilera is one of the most talented singer in the world and she my fav, i love watchin mulan (lol) and i love singin this song its wicked!!!!!!

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