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

Oh, you chase down the road till your fingers bleed

On a fiberglass tumbleweed

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

Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror

Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror

The stripping puppet on a liquid stick

Gets in to it pretty thick

And butterfly drinks a turtle's tears

But how do you know he really needs it?

'Cause a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand

Jesus wept, he felt abandoned

You're spellbound 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