Deep Dark Truthful Mirror

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Lyrics

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


Credits

Elvis Costello - vocals
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
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


Discography

Albums:

Singles:

  • This section may be incomplete.

Collections:

Alternate Versions:

  • Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (demo)
Spike (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2001
  • Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Unplugged version)
Mighty Like A Rose (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2002
  • This section may be incomplete.

Soundtracks:

  • none

Various Artists collections:

  • none

Covers

Recorded by:

  • none
  • This section may be incomplete.

Performed by:

  • none
  • This section may be incomplete.

Bootlegs

  • This section is incomplete.

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 till 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
        C                      D         G
Did you ever see a stare like a Persian cat

[Chorus]

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