Gets into it pretty thick
They set him up, set him up on the stool
The ground was iron
The same eyes, the same lips
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror
A stripping puppet on a liquid stick
The same lie from your tongue trips
You spell-bound baby, there's no doubt in that
Will be the picture that you never paint

Ring to the boots of roustabouts
He falls down, he falls down like a drunk
The same lie from your tongue trips

And you drink till you drool
And butterfly drinks a turtle's tears

But it all shuts down the same
'Cos a butterfly feeds on a dead monkey's hand
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror

There's somethin' happenin' somewhere
But how do you know he really needs it?
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror
The sky was just a purple bruise
Did you ever see her stare like a Persian cat?

Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror

That I still love you too much to say
And it's gonna tell you things

You'll stretch him out like a saint
But the canvas that he splattered
And you're never in any doubt
The same lie from your tongue trips
Oh, you can blow around the town
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror
Oh, you chase down the road till your fingers bleed
On a fiber-glass tumble-weed
The same eyes, the same lips
Well, it's his story you'll flatter

So you bay for the boy in the tiger-skin trunks
The same eyes, the same lips
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror
Now the flagstone streets where the newspaper shouts
Deep dark, deep dark, truthful mirror

Jesus wept, he felt abandoned
Until you looked the same
And you fell all around the town