Another single from the band’s debut album The Overload, ‘Payday’ is an anti-capitalist anthem that playfully mocks the brainwashing of money habits.
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? Eh?
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 samе sound when we get mowеd 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 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
Yeah well, I didn’t do any of it for you
I did it for the little boys and girls
Pulling lettuce from the potholes 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
Whoo
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 mother right
Payday was written by James Smith (Yard Act).
Payday was produced by Ali Chant.
It’s about gentrification, class fetish and how the human brain is so powerful that with enough time and processing power combined it will be able to justify, defend and/or continue to commit the actions of any human being it controls.
—via NME
James Smith:
This was written to fit in on the album to coax the narrative along. Originally, it was a really lo-fi demo and then we lost it. When we redid it, we built in all these 909 electronic drums and then Sam [Shjipstone] put this really mad funk guitar on it that was exactly what it needed....