Tell It Like It Is

[Verse 1]

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Jacknife Janet drove across the earth

To take a flaming ‘68

To the body shop on 3rd

Now her old man is called The Reverend

He was the horizontal judge

Running his tab off across the county

Healing on psychedelic drugs

Let's just say he eyes at the turnstile

But though the landing didn’t stick

To hear my Zen-dispensing figures

Screaming, "Josh, how bad is it?"

[Chorus]

If you tell it like it is

Then lover, I will let you in

[Verse 2]

Let's call up Tony

He was our family ghost

Smoked crack on Lily's floor

And wrote in his evil notes

A fishmonger gone too early

Is what he called his higher power

And this holy field is full of typos

And published on his brow

Now we messed with the wrong painter's daughter

For someone so attached to his legs

Before they banished him from New York

You'll never believe what this guy says

[Chorus]

Says, if you tell it like it is

Then lover, I will let you in

[Verse 3]

Hey, dreamtime stranger

I am dying to ask

Where a child of nature like you can see

Diamond skull tipped staff

And now what's this piss you're drinking?

Are you trying to make the spirits laugh?

Well, I have outlived the blood blush trailing you

And now I know what's coming next

The last time I saw her, she was hanging by her wrists

Said if they miss with her, my gospel

Said if they played the thing in six

Said if they tried to call a beautiful wedding

And you just tell them all I meant

[Chorus]

Is if you tell it like it is

Then lover, I will let you in

If you tell it like it is

Then lover, then lover, I will let you in

Then lover, I will let you in

Then lover, I will let you in, oh

Then lover, I will let you in

Then lover, I will let you in