Elvis Costello - Deep Dark Truthful Mirror

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 ]