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 bruise, the ground
  was iron
  And you fell all around the town until you
  looked the same
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  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
  But 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
  
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  So you bay for the boy in the tiger-skin trunks
  They set him up, set him up on the stool
  He falls down, falls down like a drunk
  And you drink till 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 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 a stare like a Persian cat?
  
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