| Steely Dan – Throw Back The Little Ones Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think the song is about fishing - but about fishing as a metaphor for either picking up women (who are the "fish") or running some sort of con (in which case the singers victims are the "fish"). Both interpretations work to some degree (though "throw back" and "pan fry" sound more like what you'd do to a con victim). Anyway the singer goes into some neighborhood where he doesn't belong to try his exploits. | |
| Steely Dan – Everyone's Gone to the Movies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the whole song is mainly about sniffing glue. LePage is a brand of glue (mostly glue sticks) and might have been common enough to become somewhat generic (like Elmers). Perhaps not sniffable, but Lepage means glue. Perhaps if SD had used a known brand of airplane glue, the FCC would have figured it out. In this case, the "films" are hallucinations caused by the glue, and the den (presumably where you'd normally build models) is as good a place as any to "watch" them. Since the rest of the family went to the "movies" (presumably the real movies), we (the singer and LePage glue) are alone and can "start the projection machine" and the family will be none the wiser. |
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| Steely Dan – Any World (That I'm Welcome To) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is a rarity for SD - a straightforward song (or there's a double meaning which I don't get). Basically the singer is longing for a better place and a new start in life. Perhaps he wants to return to an imaginary family or community that he was never part of. | |
| Steely Dan – Rikki Don't Lose That Number Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I can remember following a long-running newsnet discussion about this song - mainly about "send it in a letter to yourself". Obviously if feran411's story is correct, this would explain it. Some people that "number" meant song, in which mailing it to yourself would be a way of establishing a date of authorship (there was considerable discussion on whither this was a valid way of establishing a date). Then again, sending a letter to yourself is a way of keeping something safe for a day or so - presumably you would have cooled down a little when you receive the letter back. | |
| Steely Dan – Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Interesting that the version on the "Old Regime" album has a different second verse. My sentry trembles - He knows the end is coming. His face is scowling - inside he's on his knees. If looks and dreams could surely kill - he'd soon be gone from here. Brooklyn owes the charmer under me. I assumed that the singer was a drug dealer - who else would have a "sentry" (bodyguard or lookout, scared of something), a dish of dollars, and "aces" done up lose for dealing. I wonder if Fagan "cleaned up" the song by replacing the "sentry", with a movie queen. Then again the "sentry" could simply be a doorman. |
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| Steely Dan – Everyone's Gone to the Movies Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the whole song is mainly about sniffing glue. LePage is a brand of glue (mostly glue sticks) and might have been common enough to become somewhat generic (like Elmers). Perhaps not sniffable, but Lepage means glue. Perhaps if SD had used a known brand of airplane glue, the FCC would have figured it out. In this case, the "films" are hallucinations caused by the glue, and the den (presumably where you'd normally build models) is as good a place as any to "watch" them. Since the rest of the family went to the "movies" (presumably the real movies), we (the singer and LePage glue) are alone and can "start the projection machine" and the family will be none the wiser. |
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