50 Best Rock Songs About Mirrors

Rock Songs That Reflect on Self and Shadow

There’s a strange kind of silence when you catch your reflection in a mirror too long. It’s not shock, not vanity, something smaller and harder to name. The kind that sneaks up when the room’s too quiet or you’re getting ready to leave but keep pausing like something’s off. Rock music has a way of locking into that flicker of unease. It pulls that half-familiar stranger out from under the surface and turns the moment into something loud enough to feel. Some of these tracks stare straight back. Others blur the face until it feels like watching someone else.

Mirrors show up in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs for all kinds of reasons—self-doubt, ego, regret, reinvention. A few tracks actually mention them, but plenty carry the same pulse without saying the word once. It’s in the way the guitars curl around a single thought that won’t go away, or the vocals slip between confidence and confusion like they can’t quite decide who’s real. There’s something raw in that space, the sound of reflection turning restless. Some songs feel like they’re asking who you’ve become. Others don’t even bother asking. They just play through the unease.

Mirrors can warp, reveal, or remind you you’ve been changing without noticing. Maybe that’s the pull—songs that catch you mid-glance, not ready, not pretending to be. The ones that leave you studying yourself long after they fade out. These tracks sit in that blur, the place between looking and seeing. Here are the best rock songs about mirrors.

1. 'I'll Be Your Mirror' by The Velvet Underground & Nico

2. 'Mirror in the Bathroom' by The Beat

3. 'Go to the Mirror!' by The Who

4. 'Deep Dark Truthful Mirror' by Elvis Costello

5. 'Mirror Mirror' by Blind Guardian

6. 'The Mirror' by Dream Theater

7. 'Smash the Mirror' by The Who

8. 'Hall of Mirrors' by Kraftwerk

9. 'Mirror Man' by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

10. 'Through Glass' by Stone Sour

11. 'Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)' by Idlewild

12. 'Mirror to the Sky' by Yes

13. 'The Mirror' by Gamma Ray

14. 'Mirror Mirror' by Def Leppard

15. 'The End' by My Chemical Romance

16. 'The Room of Mirrors' by Dead Can Dance

17. 'Looking Glass' by The La's

18. 'Mirror' by Kid Rock

19. 'Mirrors' by Blue Öyster Cult

20. 'Ginny in the Mirror' by Del Shannon

21. 'House of Mirrors' by David McCallum

22. 'In the Mirror' by Field Music

23. 'Behind the Mirror' by Sonata Arctica

24. 'Through Glass' by Stone Sour

25. 'Mirror Ball' by Sarah McLachlan

26. 'Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are' by Meat Loaf

27. 'Mirror Star' by The Cure

28. 'Mirror World' by Dark Tranquillity

29. 'Broken Mirrors' by Lacuna Coil

30. 'Room Full of Mirrors' by Jimi Hendrix

31. 'The Mirror' by Fates Warning

32. 'Mirror in the Sky' by Jimi Hendrix

33. 'Reflections in a Glass Eye' by Type O Negative

34. 'Shattered Mirror' by The Tragically Hip

35. 'Mirror Image' by The Alarm

36. 'The Devil's Mirror' by The Dead Boys

37. 'Magic Mirrors' by Queen

38. 'Mirror' by Godsmack

39. 'The Mirror Song' by The Rolling Stones

40. 'One Mirror Too Many' by The Black Crowes

41. 'Mirror, Mirror' by Diamond Head

42. 'Glass Mirror' by T. Rex

43. 'Mirror Me' by Soundgarden

44. 'Mirror of the Soul' by Dio

45. 'The Other Side of the Mirror' by Stevie Nicks

46. 'Face Down' by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

47. 'In the Mirror' by The Cult

48. 'Mirror, Mirror (I See a Damsel)' by The Cure

49. 'Dream of Mirrors' by Iron Maiden

50. 'Mirror, Mirror' by Jimmy and the Boys