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==Lyrics==
{{Deep Dark Truthful Mirror}}


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==Credits==
* Written by: '''[[D.P.A. MacManus]]'''
* Produced by: '''[[Elvis Costello]]''', '''[[Kevin Killen]]''' and '''[[T Bone Burnett]]'''
* Musicians:
:'''[[Elvis Costello]]''' - [[Singers|vocals]]
:'''[[The Dirty Dozen Brass Band]]'''
::'''[[Gregory Davis]]''' - [[Trumpet players|trumpet]]
::'''[[Efrem Towns]]''' - [[Trumpet players|trumpet]]
::'''[[Kevin Harris]]''' - [[Saxophonists|tenor saxophone]]
::'''[[Roger Lewis]]''' - [[Saxophonists|baritone saxophone]]
::'''[[Kirk Joseph]]''' - [[Sousaphone players|Sousaphone]]
:'''[[Allen Toussaint]]''' - [[Keyboardists|piano]]
:'''[[Jim Keltner]]''' - [[Drummers|snare drum]], [[Percussionists|Chinese cymbal]]
:'''[[Michael Blair]]''' - [[Drummers|parade drum]], [[Percussionists|tambourines]]


{{song credits
|title = Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
|writer = [[Declan MacManus]]
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] featuring [[The Dirty Dozen Brass Band]]
|producer = [[Elvis Costello]], [[Kevin Killen]] & [[T Bone Burnett]]
|musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocal<br>[[Gregory Davis]] - trumpet<br>[[Efrem Towns]] - trumpet<br>[[Kevin Harris]] - tenor saxophone<br>[[Roger Lewis]] - baritone saxophone<br>[[Kirk Joseph]] - sousaphone<br>[[Allen Toussaint]] - piano<br>[[Jim Keltner]] - snare drum, Chinese cymbal<br>[[Michael Blair]] - parade drum, tambourines
|record_info = 1988, Southlake Studios, New Orleans & Ocean Way, Los Angeles
|release_info = February 6, 1989
|albums = [[Spike]], 1989
|singles = [[Single: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror|Deep Dark Truthful Mirror]], 1989
|collections = [[Extreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Bros. Years]], 1997<br>[[Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album]], 2015
|soundtracks =
|various_artists = [[The Piano Songs 3]], 2005<br>[[Under The Influence Of Alice]], 2010
|promos = [[Spike Album Sampler]], 1989<br>[[Timothy White's Rock Stars]], 1989<br>[[Malice And Magic]], 1995 (US)<br>[[Selections From My Aim Is True, Spike And All This Useless Beauty]], 2001
|videos =
|length = 4:03
}}<br>


{{song notes
|first = [[TV 1989-02-06 RAI 2, Italy|February 6, 1989, RAI 2, Italy]]
|last = {{2018}}
}}{{song quote
| quote =
| source =
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==Discography==
==Alternate versions==
'''Albums:'''
{{song credits
*'''[[Spike]]''', [[1989]]
|title = Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Demo)
*[[Spike (Deluxe Edition)]], [[Rhino]], [[2001]]
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]]
* ''This section may be incomplete.''
|musicians = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocals, guitars, piano, percussion
|record_info = February 16, 1988, Eden Studios, London
|release_info = August 21, 2001
|albums = [[Spike (Rhino reissue)]], 2001
|length = 4:04
}}<br>


'''Singles:'''
{{song credits
* ''This section may be incomplete.''
|title = Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Unplugged Version)
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] (& [[The Rude 5]])
|producer = [[Biff Dawes]]
|musicians  = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocal, guitar<br>[[Marc Ribot]] - guitar<br>[[Jerry Scheff]] - bass<br>[[Larry Knechtel]] - keyboards<br>[[Pete Thomas]] - drums
|record_info  = [[TV 1991-06-03|June 3, 1991, MTV Unplugged, Warner Hollywood Studios]]
|release_info = December 6, 1994
|length = 4:43
|albums = [[Mighty Like A Rose (Rhino reissue)]], 2002
|various_artists = [[The Unplugged Collection Volume One]], 1994
}}<br>


'''Collections:'''
{{song credits
*[[Discography|Album Name]], [[Discography|Year]]
|title = Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Live 2006)
* ''This section may be incomplete.''
|performer  = [[Elvis Costello]] & [[Allen Toussaint]]<br><font size=1>featuring [[The Imposters]], [[Anthony "AB" Brown]] & [[The Crescent City Horns]]</font>
|horns  = [[Allen Toussaint]]
|musicians  = [[Elvis Costello]] - vocal, guitar<br>[[Allen Toussaint]] - piano<br>[[Steve Nieve]] - keyboards<br>[[Davey Faragher]] - bass<br>[[Pete Thomas]] - drums<br>[[Anthony "AB" Brown]] - guitar<br>[[Amadee Castenell]] - saxophone<br>[[Brian "Breeze" Cayolle]] - saxophone<br>[[Joe "Foxx" Smith]] - trumpet<br>[[Sam "Big Sam" Williams]] - trombone
|record_info  = [[Concert 2006-07-03 Montreal|July 3, 2006, Montreal, QC, Canada]]
|release_info = December 5, 2006
|length      =
|videos      = [[Hot As A Pistol, Keen As A Blade]], 2006
}}


'''Alternate Versions:'''
{{thumbs header}}
*'''Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (demo)'''
{{thumb: Spike}}
:[[Spike (Deluxe Edition)]], [[Rhino]], [[2001]]
----
*'''Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Unplugged version)'''
{{thumb: Single: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror}}
:[[Mighty Like A Rose (Deluxe Edition)]], [[Rhino]], [[2002]]
----
* ''This section may be incomplete.''
<imagemap>
 
Image:The Unplugged Collection Volume One album cover.jpg|99px|center
'''Soundtracks:'''
rect 0 0 360 360 [[The Unplugged Collection Volume One]]
* none
desc none
 
</imagemap>
'''Various Artists collections:'''
----
* none
{{Thumb: Extreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Bros. Years}}
 
----
==Covers==
{{Thumb: Mighty Like A Rose}}
'''Recorded by:'''
----
* none
<imagemap>
* ''This section may be incomplete.''
Image:The Piano Songs 3 album cover.jpg|99px|center
 
rect 0 0 320 280 [[The Piano Songs 3]]
'''Performed by:'''
desc none
* none
</imagemap>
* ''This section may be incomplete.''
----
 
{{Thumb: Hot As A Pistol, Keen As A Blade}}
==Bootlegs==
----
* ''This section is incomplete.''
{{thumb: Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album}}
|}


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{{song covers
|covers = {{:Elvis Costello covers: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror}}
}}


==Chords==
==Chords==
* ''This section is incomplete.''
G                    Bm 
  .  
One day you're gonna have to face 
  .
    Am                G    G/C G 
A deep dark truthful mirror 
  And it's gonna tell you things that I still 
  C                    D 
Love you too much to say 
G                    Bm 
  The sky was just a purple bruise 
Am              G    G/C G 
  The ground was iron 
  And you fell all around the town 
    C                  G   
Until you looked the same 
 
[Chorus:] 
C C G              B 
      The same eyes, the same lips
Em                  C 
  The same lie from your tongue trips   
Horns: 
e||-------------|| 
B||-----------1-|| 
G||-------0-2---||
D||---0-2-------|| 
A||-3-----------|| 
E||-------------||
   
C    Am    C    C/B  Am  D/F# G    [Horns] 
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror 
C    Am    C    C/B  Am  D/F# G
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror 
 
C C          G                          Bm 
    Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts 
Am                      G        G/C G 
  Ring to the boots of roustabouts 
D
  And you're never in any doubt 
          C                        D 
There's something happening somewhere 
      G                            Bm
You chase down the road 'til your fingers bleed
Am                G        G/C G 
  On a fiberglass tumbleweed 
 
  You can blow around the town  
    C                      G   
But it all shuts down the same 
 
[Chorus] 
   
        Bm                    Em 
So you bay for the boy in the tigerskin trunks
C C  G            C C      G 
    They set him up, set him up on a stool 
Bm                      Em   
He falls down, he falls down like a drunk
C C          G                  C C G 
    And you drink till you drool 
C        Bm                G 
And it's his story you'll flatter 
C        Bm                  G 
You'll stretch him out like a saint 
C        Bm              Em 
But the canvas that he splattered
  C                      D          C#dim   
Will be the picture that you never paint 
 
Em C G [Horns] 
   
C    Am    C    C/B  Am  D/F# G    [Horns]   
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror 
C    Am    C    C/B  Am  D/F# G   
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror
   
G                        Bm 
  A stripping puppet on a liquid stick 
Am              G 
  Gets into it pretty thick 
    D 
A butterfly drinks a turtle's tears 
      C                        D 
But how do you know he really needs it 
  G                          Bm 
'Cos a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand 
Am              G 
  Jesus wept, he felt abandoned 
          D   
You're spellbound, baby, there's no doubting that
                          (that's where it's at) 
        C                      D        G 
Did you ever see a stare like a Persian cat 
 
  [Chorus]


==Internal links==  
==Internal links==
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/spike/spike.htm Elvis Costello Home Page: Spike] | [http://www.elviscostello.info/lyrics/spike.html lyrics] | [http://www.elviscostello.info/guitar/spike.html chords] | [http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/spike/spike_info_a01.htm Spike info page 1]
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/spike/spike.htm Elvis Costello Home Page: Spike] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/lyrics/spike.html lyrics] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/guitar/spike.html chords] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/spike/spike_info_a01.htm Spike info page 1] {{-}} [http://www.elviscostello.info/disc/official/misc/deep_dark_truthful_mirror_mtv.html Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (MTV Unplugged version) info page]
*[[Template:Deep Dark Truthful Mirror]]
*[[Template: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror|Lyrics]] {{-}} [[Elvis Costello covers: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror|Covers]]


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.geocities.com/ned3705/rhino.html Elvis Costello on Rhino] [http://www.geocities.com/ned3705/spike.html Spike reissue page]
*[http://www.inanotherroom.com/spike.html Elvis Costello Reissues: Spike]
 


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Revision as of 03:56, 8 March 2018

One day you're going to have to face a deep dark truthful mirror
And it's going to tell you things that I still love you too much to say
The sky was just a purple bruise, the ground was iron
And you fell all around the town until you looked the same

(Chorus:)
The same eyes, the same lips
The same lie from your tongue trips
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror

Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts
Ring to the boots of roustabouts
And you're never in any doubt, there's something happening somewhere
You chase down the road 'til your fingers bleed on a fiberglass tumbleweed
You can blow around the town, but it all shuts down the same

(Repeat Chorus)

So you bay for the boy in the tiger-skin trunks
They set him up, set him up on the stool
He falls down, he falls down like a drunk
And you drink till you drool
Well, it's his story you'll flatter
You'll stretch him out like a saint
But the canvas that he splattered
Will be the picture that you never paint

Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror

A stripping puppet on a liquid stick gets into it pretty thick
A butterfly drinks a turtle's tears, but how do you know he really needs it?
'Cos a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand
Jesus wept, he felt abandoned
You're spellbound baby, there's no doubting that
Did you ever see a stare like a Persian cat?

(Repeat Chorus)

Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
Written byDeclan MacManus
Performed byElvis Costello featuring The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Produced byElvis Costello, Kevin Killen & T Bone Burnett
MusiciansElvis Costello - vocal
Gregory Davis - trumpet
Efrem Towns - trumpet
Kevin Harris - tenor saxophone
Roger Lewis - baritone saxophone
Kirk Joseph - sousaphone
Allen Toussaint - piano
Jim Keltner - snare drum, Chinese cymbal
Michael Blair - parade drum, tambourines
Recorded1988, Southlake Studios, New Orleans & Ocean Way, Los Angeles
ReleasedFebruary 6, 1989
AlbumsSpike, 1989
SinglesDeep Dark Truthful Mirror, 1989
CollectionsExtreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Bros. Years, 1997
Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album, 2015
Various Artists collectionsThe Piano Songs 3, 2005
Under The Influence Of Alice, 2010
PromosSpike Album Sampler, 1989
Timothy White's Rock Stars, 1989
Malice And Magic, 1995 (US)
Selections From My Aim Is True, Spike And All This Useless Beauty, 2001
Length4:03

First known performance:
February 6, 1989, RAI 2, Italy
Last known performance:
Template:2018
     (497 known performances, 2 as a snippet)


Alternate versions

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Demo)
Performed byElvis Costello
MusiciansElvis Costello - vocals, guitars, piano, percussion
RecordedFebruary 16, 1988, Eden Studios, London
ReleasedAugust 21, 2001
AlbumsSpike (Rhino reissue), 2001
Length4:04

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Unplugged Version)
Performed byElvis Costello (& The Rude 5)
Produced byBiff Dawes
MusiciansElvis Costello - vocal, guitar
Marc Ribot - guitar
Jerry Scheff - bass
Larry Knechtel - keyboards
Pete Thomas - drums
RecordedJune 3, 1991, MTV Unplugged, Warner Hollywood Studios
ReleasedDecember 6, 1994
AlbumsMighty Like A Rose (Rhino reissue), 2002
Various Artists collectionsThe Unplugged Collection Volume One, 1994
Length4:43

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Live 2006)
Performed byElvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
featuring The Imposters, Anthony "AB" Brown & The Crescent City Horns
Horn arrangementAllen Toussaint
MusiciansElvis Costello - vocal, guitar
Allen Toussaint - piano
Steve Nieve - keyboards
Davey Faragher - bass
Pete Thomas - drums
Anthony "AB" Brown - guitar
Amadee Castenell - saxophone
Brian "Breeze" Cayolle - saxophone
Joe "Foxx" Smith - trumpet
Sam "Big Sam" Williams - trombone
RecordedJuly 3, 2006, Montreal, QC, Canada
ReleasedDecember 5, 2006
VideosHot As A Pistol, Keen As A Blade, 2006
Spike1989 Spike Album.jpg

Single: Deep Dark Truthful MirrorDeep Dark Truthful Mirror Germany 3" CD single front.jpg

The Unplugged Collection Volume OneThe Unplugged Collection Volume One album cover.jpg

Extreme Honey: The Very Best Of The Warner Bros. YearsEH album cover 500.jpg

Mighty Like A RoseMLAR album cover large.jpg

The Piano Songs 3The Piano Songs 3 album cover.jpg

Hot As A Pistol, Keen As A BladeHot As A Pistol Keen As A Blade DVD cover.jpg

Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack AlbumUnfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album album cover.jpg

Covers

Tasmin Archer Shipbuilding  (EP) 1994 AllMusicAmazon
Julia Brown performed live, 2002-08-10, Brilliant Mistakes tribute, Albany, NY 2002 archive.org
Elastic No-No Band Every Elvis Has His Army: ENB Does EC 2005 archive.org
Gail George Beyond Belief: A Tribute To Elvis Costello 2014 YouTube
Hootie & The Blowfish performed live 199x carltonbale.com: hootie covers list
Steve Nieve performed live, 2020-04-04, The Daily Improvisation, France - instrumental 2020 Facebook - 1:24
Erich Sellheim home studio production, sung in German 2019 YouTube
Brian Simms A Bandhouse Gigs Tribute To Elvis Costello 2018 bandhousegigs.orgAmazon US UK

Chords

G                     Bm   
One day you're gonna have to face  
   Am                 G     G/C G  
A deep dark truthful mirror   
D   
 And it's gonna tell you things that I still   
 C                    D  
Love you too much to say   
G                    Bm   
 The sky was just a purple bruise  
Am              G    G/C G   
 The ground was iron   
D   
 And you fell all around the town   
   C                  G    
Until you looked the same  
 
[Chorus:]  
C C G              B  
     The same eyes, the same lips 
Em                  C   
 The same lie from your tongue trips    
Horns:  
e||-------------||   
B||-----------1-||   
G||-------0-2---|| 
D||---0-2-------||   
A||-3-----------||   
E||-------------|| 
   
C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G    [Horns]  
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror   
C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G 
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror  
  
C C          G                          Bm   
   Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts  
Am                      G         G/C G   
 Ring to the boots of roustabouts  
D 
 And you're never in any doubt   
         C                        D  
There's something happening somewhere  
      G                            Bm 
You chase down the road 'til your fingers bleed 
Am                G         G/C G   
 On a fiberglass tumbleweed  
D  
 You can blow around the town  
    C                      G    
But it all shuts down the same  
  
[Chorus]  
   
        Bm                     Em   
So you bay for the boy in the tigerskin trunks 
C C  G             C C      G   
   They set him up, set him up on a stool  
Bm                       Em    
He falls down, he falls down like a drunk 
C C          G                  C C G  
   And you drink till you drool   
C         Bm                G   
And it's his story you'll flatter   
C         Bm                   G   
You'll stretch him out like a saint   
C        Bm               Em  
But the canvas that he splattered 
 C                       D          C#dim    
Will be the picture that you never paint  
  
Em C G [Horns]   
   
C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G    [Horns]    
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror  
C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G    
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror 
   
G                         Bm   
 A stripping puppet on a liquid stick   
Am              G   
 Gets into it pretty thick   
   D   
A butterfly drinks a turtle's tears  
     C                         D  
But how do you know he really needs it   
  G                          Bm   
'Cos a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand   
Am               G   
 Jesus wept, he felt abandoned  
         D    
You're spellbound, baby, there's no doubting that
                         (that's where it's at)   
        C                      D         G  
Did you ever see a stare like a Persian cat   
 
[Chorus]

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