What Keep Your Hands Clean is about
Written for the people who talk loudly about community and vanish when things get messy. The song's charge is that the cost always lands "on the same old few", while those who keep their hands clean walk away with the credit.
Keep Your Hands Clean lyrics
You keep your hands clean
Your shoes stay dry
You talk real loud
But you won’t stand nearby
Every mess is someone else’s
Every bruise is not your fault
You say that’s just how it is
Like that ever stopped the rot
Don’t touch
Don’t feel
Don’t look too close
It might get real
Keep your hands clean
Keep your distance
Call it order
Call it sense
Keep your hands clean
Stay above it
We get buried
You get credit
You clap when it’s convenient
You vanish when it’s loud
You love the word community
Just not the fucking crowd
Every risk is unfortunate
Every loss is sad but true
Funny how the cost keeps landing
On the same old few
Say the words
Mean them less
Sign the form
Call it progress
Keep your hands clean
Keep it neat
We bleed here
You retreat
Keep your hands clean
Look away
We carry this
Every day
Keep your hands clean
Who gets hit
We do
Who walks free
You do
Who pays first
We do
Keep your hands clean
Keep your hands clean
Keep your hands clean
Keep your hands clean
We’re still here
No apology
No sincere
Keep your hands clean
We’ll stay loud
You can’t wash
This off now
Keep your hands clean
Keep your hands clean
Keep your hands clean
Keep your hands clean