Deep Dark Truthful Mirror Elvis Costello
<br/> Deep Dark Truthful Mirror<br/> from Spike<br/> tabbed by ah-HA! Pronoun trouble <br/> <br/> <br/> Some of the chord shapes I've tried to graph out, and the basic <br/> chord shapes and barre chord shapes I didn't, but if you need any<br/> of them graphed out, just e-mail me.<br/> <br/> <br/> G Bm<br/> One day you're gonna have to face <br/> <br/> <br/> Am G <br/> A deep dark truthful mirror<br/> <br/> <br/> D<br/> And it's gonna tell you things that I still<br/> <br/> <br/> C D<br/> Love you too much to say<br/> <br/> <br/> G Bm<br/> The sky was just a purple bruise<br/> <br/> <br/> Am G<br/> The ground was iron<br/> <br/> <br/> D<br/> And you fell all around the town<br/> <br/> <br/> C G C<br/> Until you looked the same<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> [chorus]<br/> <br/> G B<br/> The same eyes, the same lips<br/> <br/> <br/> Em C<br/> The same lie from your tongue trips<br/> <br/> C/B D/F#<br/> C Am C C/B Am D/F# G ----------- -----------<br/> Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror | | | | 1 | | | | | | |<br/> | 2 2 | | | 2 | | 2 | |<br/> | | | | | | | | | | 3 |<br/> C Am C C/B Am D/F# G<br/> Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> G Bm<br/> Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts<br/> <br/> <br/> Am G<br/> Ring to the boots of roustabouts<br/> <br/> <br/> D<br/> And you're never in any doubt<br/> <br/> <br/> C D<br/> There's something happening somewhere<br/> <br/> <br/> G Bm<br/> You chase down the road till your fingers bleed<br/> <br/> <br/> Am G<br/> On a fiberglass tumbleweed<br/> <br/> <br/> D<br/> You can blow around the town<br/> <br/> <br/> C G C<br/> But it all shuts down the same<br/> <br/> <br/> [chorus]<br/> <br/> <br/> Bm Em C C G (strum down)<br/> So you bay for the boy in the tigerskin trunks<br/> <br/> <br/> C C G<br/> They set him up, set him up on a stool<br/> <br/> <br/> Bm Em C C G<br/> He falls down, he falls down like a drunk<br/> <br/> <br/> C C G<br/> And you drink till you drool<br/> <br/> <br/> C Bm G<br/> And it's his story you'll flatter<br/> <br/> <br/> C Bm Em (I think I play this as G again)<br/> You'll stretch him out like a saint<br/> <br/> <br/> C Bm Em<br/> But the canvas that he splattered<br/> <br/> B/D#<br/> C D B/D# -----------<br/> Will be the picture that you never paint | | | | | |<br/> | 2 | | 2 |<br/> | | | | | 3<br/> | | | | | |<br/> [instrumental break] Em C G<br/> <br/> <br/> C Am C C/B Am D/F# G<br/> Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror<br/> <br/> <br/> C Am C C/B Am D/F# G<br/> Deep dark, deep dark truthful mirror<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> G Bm<br/> A stripping puppet on a liquid stick<br/> <br/> <br/> Am G<br/> Gets into it pretty thick<br/> <br/> <br/> D<br/> A butterfly drinks a turtle's tears<br/> <br/> <br/> C D<br/> But how do you know he really needs it<br/> <br/> <br/> G Bm<br/> Cos a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand<br/> <br/> <br/> Am G<br/> Jesus wept, he felt abandoned<br/> <br/> <br/> D <br/> You're spellbound, baby, there's no doubting that<br/> <br/> <br/> C G C<br/> Did you ever see her stare like a Persian cat<br/> <br/> <br/> [chorus]<br/> <br/> </div> </div> <div class="breadcrumbs">
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