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I tell the truth even when I’m lying
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Ohhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhh oh oh oh
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Ohhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhh oh oh oh
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Well are you, to criticize me?
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Yeah and who are you, to try and categorize me?
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Forgive them lord they know not what they’ve done
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In the name of the father and the son judgment day will come
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Ohhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhh oh oh oh
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Ohhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhh oh oh oh
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Well Houdini couldn’t escape all your said I didn’t un’s   
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Well sticks and stones break my bones but your words don’t harm me
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So I’m not your critic’s choice I never wanted to be
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So I’m not your critics choice I know it doesn’t fit me
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I tell the truth even when I’m lying
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I tell the truth even when I’m lying
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An open letter to the music press
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I revoke your poetic license
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You probably got on 42nd street
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Same place you got your lover
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Same place your mother got your father
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I tell the truth even when I’m lying

G                            D              G
I tell the truth even when I’m lying
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Cookooachoo about you
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Me and my friends I wonder when
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So I’m not your critic’s choice I never wanted to be
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So I’m not your critics choice I know it doesn’t fit me
G                            D              G
I tell the truth even when I’m lying
G                            D              G
I tell the truth even when I’m lying
G                            D              G
I tell the truth even when I’m lying