Deep Dark Truthful Mirror chords by Elvis Costello

Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
from Spike
tabbed by ah-HA! Pronoun trouble


Some of the chord shapes I've tried to graph out, and the basic
chord shapes and barre chord shapes I didn't, but if you need any
of them graphed out, just e-mail me.


G                    Bm
One day you're gonna ....

  Am                 G
A deep dark ...


D
And it's gonna tell ...


C                    D
Love you too ...


G                  Bm
The sky was just ...


Am             G
The ...


D
And you fell all ...


C                    G    C
Until you ...



[chorus]

G              B
The same eyes, the ...


Em                C
The same lie from ....

                                         C/B             D/F#
C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G      -----------     -----------
Deep dark, deep dark .....            | | | | 1 |     | | | | | |
                                      | 2 2 | | |     2 | | 2 | |
                                      | | | | | |     | | | | 3 |
C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F# G
Deep dark, deep dark ....



        G                           Bm
Now the flagstone streets where ....


Am                   G
Ring to the boots ....


D
And you're never ...

        C                       D
There's something ....
    G                             Bm
You chase down the road till ...


Am              G
On a fiberglass ....


D
You can blow ...


    C                     G    C
But it all shuts ...


[chorus]


       Bm                     Em              C C G (strum down)
So you bay for the boy ...


               C C G
They set him up, set ...


Bm                      Em               C C G
He falls down, he falls ....


                           C C G
And you drink ...


C        Bm               G
And it's his story ...


C      Bm                     Em  (I think I play this as G again)
You'll stretch ...


C       Bm             Em
But the canvas that ....

                                                   B/D#
C                        D         B/D#        -----------
Will be the picture ....                     | | | | | |
                                               | 2 | | 2 |
                                               | | | | | 3
                                               | | | | | |
[instrumental break] Em  C  G


C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F#  G
Deep dark, deep dark    .....


C    Am    C    C/B  Am   D/F#  G
Deep dark, deep ....



G                       Bm
A stripping ...


Am            G
Gets into it ...


D
A butterfly ...


    C                         D
But how do you know ...


      G                    Bm
Cos a butterfly feeds on a ...


Am              G
Jesus wept, he ....


       D
You're spellbound, ....


C                                 G         C
Did you ever see her ....


[chorus]