[Verse] I was named like a verdict before I could choose Born with a word I would later refuse Clean on the page, pure in the sound Then I learned how money moves people around Turned faces to figures, breath into cost Just doing my job, but something got lost I never broke laws, I bent them polite Kept my hands clean, yeah I cleaned up, all right If it cleared at the end of the day I told myself God looked the other way [Chorus] Coins on the table, blood on the scale One can be counted, one will prevail I climbed up a tree just to see Him pass He looked up and named me And the math came last [Verse] I heard He was coming, passing through lanes Crowds packed tight with history and blame Too short to see, too known to press So I climbed that tree despite my success Bark in my palms, laughter below A grown man perched where he shouldn’t go I didn’t climb cuz I had something to ask Just needed a look as He walked past No speech prepared, no vow rehearsed Just a name I carried getting heavier [Chorus] Coins on the table, blood on the scale One can be counted, one will prevail I climbed for a glimpse, but He saw it all He named me clean And the numbers fall [Bridge] Then He stopped Looked up And said it ... Zacchaeus ... (Wait... He knows ... me?) [Verse] Not a title, not a charge Called me clean, spoke it whole Like the word still meant what it meant And my chest went hollow. Because “clean” was never my story Just my label, just my start Every deal I ever made Rose up and split that word apart. Called “pure” by the One who defines it Alive where death was the wage It wasn’t that He knew my actions It’s that He said my name [Chorus] Coins on the table, blood on the scale One can be counted, one will prevail I ran to numbers, tried to pay it all Fourfold back But the debt stood tall [Verse] So I ran to numbers like a shelter Did what I knew how to do Four times back, every loss Let the figures tell the truth. Not to earn, not to stall Just to say I understood You can fix what you took from a neighbor You can’t become what my name says I should. I treated image like inventory Now the count doesn’t matter Because wrong isn’t measured And death doesn’t barter. [Chorus] Coins on the table, blood on the scale One can be counted, one will prevail I know if I paid, I still could not earn But He came anyway And the ledger burned [Verse] Then He said He was staying with me No pause, no terms, no delay Didn’t rename me, didn’t soften the word Just sat where judgment should stay I’ll spend my days making things right That work is real, that cost remains But I don’t eat tonight as a man pretending That I can turn myself into my name I was called what I wasn't today And I liv because He said it anyway [Chorus] Coins on the table, blood on the scale One can be counted, one will prevail I lived what I owed, I still could not earn But He called me anyway And the ledger burned
