When I was a kid, I thought this song was about a drug deal gone wrong. I agree today with everybody else. This is a three-act story, not unlike Bad Bad Leroy Brown, about a hustler who just can't put it down and has just got to try that one last heist. Ocean's Eleven kind of.
Like Steely Dan's "Don't Take Me Alive", "Lido Shuffle" seems to be one of those classic 1970's songs that cruelly missed becoming a movie.
When I was a kid, I thought this song was about a drug deal gone wrong. I agree today with everybody else. This is a three-act story, not unlike Bad Bad Leroy Brown, about a hustler who just can't put it down and has just got to try that one last heist. Ocean's Eleven kind of.
Like Steely Dan's "Don't Take Me Alive", "Lido Shuffle" seems to be one of those classic 1970's songs that cruelly missed becoming a movie.