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|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 | |||
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|first = [[TV 1989-02-06 RAI 2, Italy|February 6, 1989, RAI 2, Italy]] | |||
|last = {{2024}} | |||
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==Alternate versions== | |||
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|title = Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Demo) | |||
|performer = [[Elvis Costello]] | |||
|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> | |||
{{song credits | |||
|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> | |||
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|title = Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (Live 2006) | |||
|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 | |||
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|covers = {{:Deep Dark Truthful Mirror covers}} | |||
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== | ==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] | |||
== | ==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/misc/deep_dark_truthful_mirror_mtv.html Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (MTV Unplugged version) info page] | ||
*[[Template: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror|Lyrics]] {{-}} [[Deep Dark Truthful Mirror covers|Covers]] | |||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
[[http://www. | *[https://reclinernotes.com/2022/07/17/deep-dark-truthful-mirror/ Recliner Notes] | ||
*[http://www.inanotherroom.com/spike.html Elvis Costello Reissues: Spike] | |||
[[Category:1989]] | [[Category:1989]] | ||
[[Category:Spike]] | |||
[[Category:Songs]] | [[Category:Songs]] | ||
[[Category:Lyrics]] | [[Category:Lyrics]] | ||
[[Category:Chords]] | [[Category:Chords]] | ||
[[Category:Alternate versions]] | |||
[[Category:Allen Toussaint]] |
Latest revision as of 04:49, 30 January 2024
One day you're going to have to face a deep dark truthful mirror |
First known performance: Alternate versions
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Covers
Tasmin Archer | Shipbuilding (EP) | 1994 | AllMusic • Amazon |
Julia Brown | performed live, 2002-08-10, Brilliant Mistakes tribute, Albany, New York | 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.org • Amazon 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]
Internal links
- Elvis Costello Home Page: Spike • lyrics • chords • Spike info page 1 • Deep Dark Truthful Mirror (MTV Unplugged version) info page
- Lyrics • Covers