RagNBone Man - Tell'em Like It Is Lyrics

Well, a lot of people don't know what the blues means
They use the word a whole lot of time
Blues, all kinds of blues
Rabbit blues, chicken blues, any kind of blues
Just to name it blues
Be sad, but that's not the blues
The blues consists between a male and a female
I don't care what nobody says

Fry my chicken and pour my rum
Wash my crack up and load my gun
Hold me now when I'm feeling low
But don't f*ck with my money, no
Spend my cash
Don't ask where it came from
Tell my mother I'm respectable
Wash my clothes and clean my house
Don't say shit, just hold your mouth

Tell it like it is, yeah
Just tell it like it is, mm
Just tell it like it is, mm
Just tell it like it is, yeah

Only speak when you're spoken to (spoken to)
Tell your mother the same (tell your mother the same)
Tell your sister better watch her mouth
'Cause I ain't the one to blame
Keep your hair and your nails looking fine
Don't dress like no ho (don't dress like no ho)
Don't be talking to any other guys
Keep them titties on show

Baby, you tell 'em how it is, yeah
Better tell 'em like it is, mm
Tell it like it is, yeah
Just tell 'em like it is, mm

Where's my chicken and where's my rum?
Where's my rocks and my loaded gun?
Where's my loving when I was low?
You was f*cking with my money, yo
You've been out on the town with them guys
Dressed up like some ho (dressed up like some ho)
Have to find me another bitch
I can trust with my dough

Bitch, tell 'em like it is
So tell 'em
Bitch, tell 'em like it is, yeah, yeah
Tell 'em like it is

If you go to work
And you get broke, you ain't got no money
You go to work and you got laid off
But that is a chance, that you must get another job
Or work somewhere else
But not true love
Everything I say consists of between a man and a woman
True love, if you really love the woman
And woman really loves you
The next man that's got a job and you got laid off
And he come along and he got a job
And he can gain her influence
If that woman would do that towards that man
Then he's deceived, he's thinking she loves him
When she didn't, she was talking and he got his tongue rattled
I preached for a long time