Dan Reeder – Clean Elvis lyrics

Dan Reeder – Clean Elvis lyrics

I inject pure kryptonite
Into my brain
It improves my kung-fu
And it eases the pain during
Acceleration
When the pedal hits the floor
This thing burns nitroglycerin
And powdered C4

And I will always love you

I drive a modified
T-series Lola
It's kind of heavy
But I like the feel
When I say Vietnam
It sounds just like coca-cola
I believe most anything
As long as it's not real

And I will always love you

I battled aliens
From outer space
They got one eye right
In the middle of their face
I grab my laser gun
I know my place
Somebody's got to save
The human race

And I will always love you

It seems hopeless
But wouldn't you know
They got a weakness
And they let it show
They can't jump
And they're a little bit slow
When I say world war 2 I mean the video

And I
- help me elvis I
- help me elvis I
-come on now elvis
I can't help
Falling in love with you

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Unregistered 2020-09-02 18:20:53

I think this song is most likely about a war veteran. To be honest I have no idea. But the words "Vietnam sounds just like Coca-Cola, could be referencing the heavy propaganda/"brain washing" going on around that time period. I think the perspective then shifts to a WW2 veteran, calling Germans "aliens" with a weakness. More proof for him being a veteran is that he says he "grab my laser gun, I know my place". I think that ties back to the Vietnam war. Him being drafted, he knows his "place" is as a soldier. Just another Cog in the machine to die and be the "somebody has to save the human race". Him referencing Elvis is a time period thing, and he's speaking to family/lovers when he says he'll always love them. He asks for help from Elvis because he's dying, either mentally or emotionally, and needs "help" describing his love for those he misses. The T-Series lola is known as the "peak" of classic racing cars, meant only for speed. The powdered c-4 is him gunning it on his car, maybe hinting that he's committing suicide. He's a drug addict from a former war, remembering the brain washing he has suffered from pro-war campaigns. The drugs make him believe that the enemy used to be aliens from space, and the "kyrptonite" is most likely Heroin.

He's going way too fast in his "race car", as a war veteran, remembering propaganda and war experiences, the end of the song is him telling everyone goodbye.

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Unregistered 2021-09-04 02:19:44

In response to the above, I will speculate that "kryptonite" is not heroin, but morphine... In keeping with the Vietnam theme. Referring to WW2 as "the video" could just imply he wasn't there. Some Vietnam-themed John Prine songs tipped me off to this.

Man, it's hard to hit fifty words. Why not get straight to the point?

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Unregistered 2022-12-03 02:12:15

Pretty sure it’s from the pov of Elvis himself, if he were clean and could write about the shit that he was doing (barbiturates and stimulants) and where it took his brain. In a weird way it’s an homage, rather satirical, and gorgeously delivered, which is classic Dan Reeder. That’s my theory. Great song.

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