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Clean Money Lyrics
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
That's what I want to do
I want to spend it on you
Checking on a checkmate
Grassing on a classmate
So beautiful and fortunate
He hates to love, you love to hate
He can fix you for good
Cause he is the neighborhood
You can't get money for blood
Blood money for doin' no good
But they won't take my love for tender
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
That's what I want to do
I want to spend it on you
Have you made your selection?
Are you ready for correction?
'Cause the wages of sin
Are an expensive infection
And it's under the counter
Under the Geiger counter
Who stole your thunder?
But they won't take my love for tender
Clean money, clean money
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
That's what I want to do
I want to spend it on you
Grassing on a classmate
So beautiful and fortunate
He hates to love, you love to hate
He can fix you for good
Cause he is the neighborhood
You can't get money for blood
Blood money for doin' no good
But they won't take my love for tender
Clean money, clean money
Payday's coming and we wash it away
Clean money, clean money
That's what I want to do
I want to spend it on you
Are you ready for correction?
'Cause the wages of sin
Are an expensive infection
And it's under the counter
Under the Geiger counter
Who stole your thunder?
But they won't take my love for tender
Song Info
Submitted by
songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012
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I guess it's about money laundering. But hey, I just really like how fast this one is, and the way he sings "money" in the background of the verses. Also, the guitar tone is cool here.
Many of the lyrics on this song are the same as "Love For Tender" on "Get Happy". I consider that a better song. "Clean Money" was released on the "Taking Liberties" album, which was a collection of outtakes and demos, (even so, it was just about as good as the early EC studio albums). So I think "Clean Money" is probably an early version of a song that he reworked later.
As for the meaning of the song, I think the lyrics were a bunch of lines with some clever wordplay about money. They don't really hang together well. But it has a good and fast aggressive beat of its own that got completely changed, so they are truly different songs.