[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