| Steely Dan – Dirty Work Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Dirty work = sex, specifically sex that results in her orgasm. The song's about a guy who is the man she cheats on her husband with (when he's out of town, she lights a candle for romance, sends the maid home early), and the moral dilemma - sex or cuckold the hubby. He's unable to overcome his desire for her, despite the terrible risk, every time - thousands of times before. |
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| Steely Dan – Do It Again Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've heard many people opine it's a song about a gangster, in the Mob. The analysis equating stole your water to sleeping with your girl is, I think, correct. That first verse is couched in 'wild west' terms, but applies to a person in the modern era. The hangman = criminal justice system is correct, too. The second verse: choose a girl with low ambitions, but she gives you the sex you need. Then you find your dumb girlfriend in a room with your only friend... same shit in verse one, so go back and whack (kill) the guy (do it again). Start over agian with another woman - a little wild one - who's sexually exciting, but trouble with a capital T, and when she's smiling its because she's cheating on you. You know you'll be on your knees asking for penance tomorrow after you kill again. I'd always heard the first line of the third verse as "Now you swear to Deacon Davis" but "kick and beg us" seems to be the accepted lyric. Anyway, you'd sworn to reform, but there you are, about to kill again. The black cards make you money - the things you can do to survive (like, kill for hire) but you want to hide that from society (you hide them when you're able). There are just times, though, when you have to go and kill again (in the land of milk and honey, where no one expect it) you must put your cards on the table (reveal yourself). I think this last verse is saying you have to come clean to someone if you want to have her? in your life. |
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