A Rant From Mister Lennon (1970)

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
It's money for dope
Money for rope

Ah, I'm sick to death of hearing things
from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

[alive]

Thats a brilliant song from his 1971 imagine album - George Harrison does the slide guitar. Cool

[TonyMiller]

I put it up because it's still relevant today. Murdoch, Cameron, the whole stinkin bunch of them.

[dawnsinclair]

I thought you were having a crisis Tony and I ran here to give you a hug LOL...God knows I ought to have heard this lyric before now but I hadn't...pretty damn good of course!!


ps I must have heard it if it's from the Imagine Album, I own a copy of it and played it nonstop for a month when I first got it...then sporadically hundreds of times since....omg I am getting so old I forget this kind of thing....someone shoot me!!

[Dave Fountain]

A true poet, bereft of pretension.