Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Lyrics - Unfaithful Music - Elvis Costello

One day you're gonna have to face 

A deep dark truthful mirror 

And it's gonna 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 

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 somethin' happenin' somewhere 

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Oh, you chase down the road till your fingers bleed 

On a fiber-glass tumble-weed 

Oh, you can blow around the town 

But it all shuts down the same 

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 

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 

Photos 

Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror 

Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror 

A stripping puppet on a liquid stick 

Gets into it pretty thick 

And 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 spell-bound baby, there's no doubt in that 

Did you ever see her stare like a Persian cat? 

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 

Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror