| Steely Dan – Dont Take Me Alive Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Steely Dan – Haitian Divorce Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great interpretation Law & Hubo..., couldn't have said it better myself. | |
| Steely Dan – Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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PKIA: I think you're right on. This is one of my favorite SD songs...especially the line "daddy can't get no fine cigar but we know you're smoking wherever you are." On his way to Hackensack "drinking his dinner from a paper sack" he has to get liquored up--probably before he has to beat up or kill a guy who hasn't paid some money back or something to the mob. |
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| Steely Dan – Black Cow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Yeah, I think it is a friend who gets called to console the woman who cheats on her husband... She probably meets this guy to confess all the bad things she's done...but it has happened so many times it's become routine and shallow. "You should know, how all the pros play the game, You change your name Like a gangster, on the run, You will stagger home, to your precious one" Refers to the woman changing her real name to sleep around because she doesn't want her real name to get out or be known... Then, when she's finished whoring around she staggers home to her precious husband.. Pretty straight forward I think. |
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| Steely Dan – My Old School Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Right on dude. Plus, because of all the bad stuff that's happened, he's never, ever going back to Annandale probably can't either after being kicked out for drugs... ["California tumbles into the sea...that'll be the day I go back to Annandale."] |
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| Steely Dan – My Old School Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Right on dude. Plus, because of all the bad stuff that's happened, he's never, ever going back to Annandale probably can't either after being kicked out for drugs... ["California tumbles into the sea...that'll be the day I go back to Annandale."] |
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| Steely Dan – Change Of The Guard Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I just think it's about a guy, maybe 35 ish or something, that senses he's not on the edge or as hip as he was in his teens and 20's because of changing styles or slang he hears the younger people talking about and doesn't understand. Just the general feeling that he is getting older and feels the pulse of life and possibly work being taken over by the younger, newer, more hip kids. |
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| Steely Dan – Here At The Western World Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about a whorehouse in the western United States--but it could be a whorehouse in Germany called the "Western World". I grew up in Reno and it sounds suspiciously like what used to go on at the Mustang Ranch. No one cares if the mayor is there because it's legal [or in the case of Germany, permitted, where the citizens are less hung up about sex than in the U.S. "Lay down your Jackson and you will see the sweetness you've been crying for"--money in exchange for sex with a beautiful woman. American money would work equally well in Germany I suppose. And, there is a dance club called "The Lido" in Berlin...I don't know if it was there when SD wrote the song, though. |
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| Steely Dan – Dont Take Me Alive Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Motomainaic: Great interpretation. The 'mechanized hum' could also be the depressed, routine, emotionless method in which he goes about his business these days...along with 'no red light flashing' [lacking the normal conscience most people have when it comes to killing, etc] and 'no sun is shining' [no joy, much depression]. 'Luckless Pedestrian' might refer to himself in that he has finally been captured after being on the run or committing other crimes...by the police talking to him through megaphones on the street promising him "everything will be allright"... 'Can you hear the evil crowd...the lies and the laughter'--probably refers to the usual crowd that gathers at stuff like this replete with all sorts of inflated rumors that aren't true about the suspect...others may be laughing and hoping to see some sort of killing by the police' Some thoughts to go along with the great guitar work on this song. Gotta love 'the Dan'. |
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