Deep Dark Truthful Mirror(Chords)

	        


G                    Bm 
One day you're gonna have to face 


  Am                 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 
The ground was iron 


D 
And you fell all around the town 


C                    G    C 
Until you looked the same 

 

G              B 
The same eyes, the same lips 


Em                C 
The same lie from your tongue trips 

                                         C/B             D/F# 
C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G    
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror  
                                  

C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G 
Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror 


        G                           Bm 
Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts 


Am                   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 
On a fiberglass tumbleweed 


D 
You can blow around the town 


    C                     G    C 
But it all shuts down the same 



       Bm                     Em              C C G (strum down) 
So you bay for the boy in the tigerskin trunks 


               C C G 
They set him up, set him up on a stool 


Bm                      Em               C C G 
He falls down, he falls down like a drunk 


                           C C G 
And you drink till you drool 


C        Bm               G 
And it's his story you'll flatter 


C      Bm                     Em  (I think I play this as G again) 
You'll stretch him out like a saint 


C       Bm             Em 
But the canvas that he splattered 

                                                   B/D# 

C                        D         B/D#   
Will be the picture that you never paint     


{Instrumental break} Em  C  G 


C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F#  G 
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                                 G         C 
Did you ever see her stare like a Persian cat 


{Chorus}
	        

Written by Elvis Costello