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

Credits

• Written by: Elvis Costello
• Produced by: Nick Lowe
• Musicians:

Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar

Steve Nieve - keyboards, backing vocals

Bruce Thomas - bass, backing vocals

Pete Thomas - drums, backing vocals

Dave Edmunds - backing vocals

Discography

Albums:

• Armed Forces (reissue), Rykodisc/Demon, 1993
• Armed Forces (Deluxe Edition), Rhino, 2002

Singles:

• Clubland, 1980
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Collections:

• Taking Liberties, 1980
• Ten Bloody Marys & Ten How's Your Fathers, 1980
• 2½ Years, 1993
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Alternate Versions:

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Soundtracks:

• none

Various Artists collections:

• none

Covers

Recorded by:

• none
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Performed by:

• none
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Bootlegs

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