Deep Dark Truthful Mirror

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 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                                            (strum down) So you bay for the boy in the tigerskin trunks They set him up set him up on a stool He falls down he falls down like a drunk     And you drink till you drool    And it’s his story you’ll flatter                              (I think I play this as again) You’ll stretch him out like a saint But the canvas that he splattered                                                     Will be the picture that you never paint      {Instrumental break}      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 her stare like a Persian cat {Chorus}