Tell It Like It Is

[Verse 1] [?] 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 [?] 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