Lyrics to
Lick Your Fingers Clean

This version of Lick Your Fingers Clean was released by Jethro Tull in 1971.

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I’ll see you at the weighing in when your life’s sum-total’s made.
And you set your wealth in godly deeds against the sins you’ve laid.
So place your final burden on your hard-pressed next of kin:
Send the chamber pot back down the line to be filled up again.
Take your mind off your election and try to get it straight.
And don’t pretend perfection: you’ll be crucified too late.
And he’ll say you really should make the deal as he offers round the hat.
Well, you’d better lick your fingers clean, I thank you all for that.
And as you join the good ship earth and you mingle with the dust
be sure to leave your underpants with someone you can trust.
And the hard-headed social worker who bathes his hands in blood
will welcome you with arms held high and cover you with mud.
And he’ll say you really should make the deal as he offers round the hat.
Well, you’d better lick your fingers clean, well. I’ll thank you all for that.

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides Lick Your Fingers Clean. Jethro Tull released songs from 1968 to 2003 spanning across albums like This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Living In The Past, Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play, Warchild, Minstrel In The Gallery, Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die!, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, A, The Broadsword And The Beast, Under Wraps, Crest Of A Knave, Rock Island, Catfish Rising, Nightcap, Roots To Branches, J-Tull Dot Com, and The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jethro Tull.

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The lyrics for Lick Your Fingers Clean are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Jethro Tull. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Lick Your Fingers Clean have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Lick Your Fingers Clean - Jethro Tull and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

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