Elvis Costello - Deep Dark Truthful Mirror 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

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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

But 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

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So you bay for the boy in the tiger-skin trunks

They set him up, set him up on the stool

He falls down, falls down like a drunk

And you drink 'til you drool

And 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

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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?

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