Well, let me tell you something, let me tell you so   This could be the one thing that you really need to know   You got to stop once in a while and shake off that face of yours   'Cause nothing comes easy or it just comes free   You could sing it better if you'd sing it for me, oh sister      Well, I cannot claim this advice as my own   I learned it in the gutter one night coming home   She said, "Don't you look ridiculous?", I checked her out meticulously   And I would've stopped to argue but my teeth were broke   I said, "I'd love to contradict you but my life's a joke, oh sister"      She said I'm no genius and I've lost myself   The books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf   And it's one time keep it slow, wind them up and here we go   Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow   Some said she was saintly, to some she was a swinger   Me, I only knew here as an acid jazz singer, come on      Well, I'm a lucky man and maybe so is she   And maybe this is just the way it has to be   It's all based on speculation, seems a crazy occupation to me   And though I didn't much believe her I was bound to call   I really didn't want to miss a single thing at all, oh sister      She said I'm no genius and I've lost myself   The books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf   And it's one time keep it slow, wind them up and here we go   Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow   Some said she was saintly, to some she was a swinger   Me, I only knew here as an acid jazz singer, come on      She said I'm no genius and I've lost myself   The books are on the table and the secret's on the shelf   And it's one time keep it slow, wind them up and here we go   Get it right today and you may still be here tomorrow   Some said she was saintly, to some she was a swinger   Me, I only knew here as an acid jazz singer, come on   Well, I haven't seen her lately, man I have to ring her   Put your hands together for the acid jazz singer, come on      Come on, come on, come on   Come on, come on, come on