Lyrics to
Tell The Truth

This version of Tell The Truth was released by Otis Redding in 1970.

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Tell the truth
Tell the truth, girl, now
You know you got me goin’ everything crazy that you want me to do
Yes you have girl
Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you know you gotta tell the truth, yeah huh
Baby, baby, baby, babe why don’t you tell me truth, now, uh
You know you got me goin’ everything crazy that you want me to do
Yes you have, yeah watch it

lovin’ you is just a little bit easy started, so hard to stop
Feel how could
Baby, bay, you know I would
I feel a strong all around
If I thought that it would do any good, mama
Tell me the truth, yeah
Lit-lit-lit-lit-little girl just
Tell me the truth now, yeah, huh
You know you got me goin’ everything foolish that you want me to do

Oh play it
Come on Steve, yeah
Tell me,tell me, tell me the truth now

Tell the truth now
Lovin’ you is easy to start, hard to stop
But I’m gonna just tell you this, uh
If I had to do it
Baby you know I would
I would feeling strong all around
If I just thought that it would do me some good, aahhhh

The truth now
Tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell ’em, tell, just tell me the truth now
Just tell me the truth now
Got to tell me no lie
I wanna tell you the truth now
Don’t you, don’t you tell me no lie, ah
Just tell me the truth now
Don’t you, don’t you tell me no lie girl, huh
Just tell me the truth now…

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Otis Redding has released many songs over the years besides Tell The Truth. Otis Redding released songs from 1964 to 1970 spanning across albums like Pain In My Heart, Otis Blue, The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads, The Soul Album, Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul, King & Queen, The Dock Of The Bay, The Immortal Otis Redding, Love Man, and Tell The Truth. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Otis Redding.

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About Lyrics and Tell The Truth by Otis Redding

The lyrics to Tell The Truth are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Otis Redding used when the song was created in 1970. The lyrics to Tell The Truth have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Otis Redding and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Tell The Truth by Otis Redding. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Tell The Truth" means the words set to the music of Tell The Truth, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Otis Redding. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Tell The Truth and the lyrics to Tell The Truth are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Otis Redding who came here looking just for the lyrics to Tell The Truth, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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