I've got to tell you(echo)

i want to tell you (echo)

i've got to tell you (scat)

i want to tell you that you've got to let it go

(scat)

i've got to tell you that it's time to let you know

i've got to tell you that you've got to let it go

i've got to tell you that it's time to let you know

i've got to tell you that you've got to let you go

i want to tell you that you've got i've got to let you go

verse 1:

i believe to much in all the stuff in my head

it's a hassle in the morning to get up out of bed

i'm holding on the superset, and it's to hard to see

and i'm thinking everybody is better than me

i try to keep doing what i think i gotta do

if i make a mistake you're going to think i'm a fool

i'm always back again to the point where i began

if you're afraid i need help, don't offer your hand

i know, you know, they know, we know

i don't know nothing, but i gotta keep bluffing

i'm thinking, they're thinking, you're thinking

and now i'm so drained and confused that i think i want to sing

it's so hard to talk, when you're walking in chalk

and so hard to see, when your pretending you're free

don't know what i can give, and i've had all i can take

everybody's to blame, when you can't play the game

(scat)

i've got to tell you that it's time to let you know

i want to tell you that you've got i've got to let you go

i've got to tell you that it's time to let you know

i want to tell you that you've got i've got to let you go

verse 2:

i'm a naming, and a gaming, a framing, and a blaming

and it's a pattern that's been working for a long, long time

it's hard to begin, but surrender means when

and it certainly is better than losing your mind

i know you've been thinking i've been talking about me

i made it that way for a purpose you see

scatman's only really, trying to get through

to help you discover that he'd been talking about you

these things i hold back are right here in the back of my head

this happened, i think i kinda have to go to bed

i'm on the level logically, in spite of what i think

you think my opinions should be thrown in the sink

i wanna do better, but i don't know how

but if i'm going to start, i'm going to start right now

i try to survive, and i want to let you know

if i wanna live at all i gotta, i gotta let go

(scatting ‘till end)