Album Name

The Unplugged Collection, Volume One

Artist

Elvis Costello, Various Artists

Genre

POP

Release Date

1994

Release Agency

-

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror - Elvis Costello
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
The same eyes
the same lips
the same lie
your tongue trips
Deep dark
deep dark truthful mirror
Deep dark
deep dark truthful mirror
The flagstone streets
where the newspaper shouts
ring to the boots of
roustabouts
But you're never in any doubt
something happening somewhere
You chase down the road till
your fingers bleed
On a fiberglass tumbleweed
You can blow around the town
but it all shuts
down the same
The same eyes
the same lips
the same lie
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
falls down like a drunk
And you drink till 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
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
The same eyes
the same lips
the same lie
your tongue trips
Deep dark
deep dark truthful mirror
Deep dark
deep dark truthful mirror
Deep dark
deep dark truthful mirror