One day you re going to have to face
A deep dark truthful mirror
And it s going to tell you things that I still love you too much to say
The sky was just a purple bruisethe ground was iron
And you fell all around the town until you looked the same

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The same eyesthe same lipsthe same lie from
your tongue trips
Deep darkdeep dark truthful mirror
Deep darkdeep dark truthful mirror

Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts ring to the boots of roustabouts
But you re never in any doubtthere s something happening somewhere

You chase down the road til your fingers bleed
On a fiberglass tumbleweed

You can blow around the townbut it all shuts down the same

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So you bay for the boy in the tiger-skin trunks
They set him upset him up on the stool
He falls downfalls down like a drunk
And you drink til you drool
And 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

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A stripping puppet on a liquid stick gets into it pretty thick
A butterfly drinks a turtle s tearsbut 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 a stare like a Persian cat?

Chorus

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