Payday

Album: The Overload (2022)
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  • What constitutes a ghetto? Huh?
    Is it growing your own lettuces in the potholes on the road
    Do the locals have to eat them all if they don't sell 'em
    I call potholes concrete meadows of the soul
    What constitutes a ghetto fetish? Huh?
    Is it growing your own lettuces but not filling in the potholes
    The local council will be getting an earful believe me
    I call their lugholes concrete bollards to the soul
    We all make the same sound when we get mowed down
    And there are starving children in Africa
    So go send your toy guns to Bosnia

    Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
    Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
    Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
    Take the money, take the money, take the money
    And treat your husband right

    What constitutes real change? Huh?
    Are we even vaguely aware of when we'll terminate the muse
    If all offers are final, then how is it even possible
    For you to be both flush and completely principled?
    Ah, yeah well, I didn't do any of it for you
    I did it for the little boys and girls
    Pulling lettuce from the pothole hosing off the engine oil
    Wax apples at Christmas, next year they're sniffing glue
    All of a sudden I was blinded by a powerful light
    Woo

    Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
    Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
    Take the money, take the money, take the money and run
    Take the money, take the money, take the money
    And treat your mama right

    Take it
    Take it (take it)
    Take it (take it)
    Take it (just take it, put it in your pocket)
    Take it
    Take it (don't tell anyone)

    Take the money, ay
    Take the money, ooh
    Take the money, just treat, treat, treat yourself
    Take the money
    Take it, take it, go on take it
    Take it, take, take, take, take, take

    Take the money, ay
    Take the money, ooh
    Take the money and treat your mother right
    Take the money, oii
    Take the money, yeah
    Take the money and treat your mother right Writer/s: James Smith, Ryan Needham, Sam Shjipstone
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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