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| Steely Dan – Blues Beach Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I am assuming this is a New York song like so many other SD efforts. The only question is Medicine Park which seems to be in Oklahoma, so I don't get that.
However, some of the rest is fairly clear. The "early resigned" seems to me to be someone who has lost their job, is "scrapin' bottom" and now has time on their hands in the mean streets. So he decides to head out of town to "Blues Beach" but his luck is so bad he can't even get the bus. He consorts with various other losers on the way, and they can try a few sad distractions like a "paranymphic glider", but basically his luck has run out and he is doomed to a fairly cold, sad existence. |
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| Steely Dan – Almost Gothic Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I agree with you 100% on this one Marshack. I am still intrigued by the first line though. What is "gospel time"? |
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| Steely Dan – Deacon Blues Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Lots of good thoughts, some correct IMHO, other way of IMHO. I would just like to add a comment I heard Walter Becker say in an interview when asked about this song. In typical cryptic form he said that the "hero" of DB is playing out a "particular form of loser-dom"..."and who's to say he's wrong?" In other words, like so many other Dan songs this one is about a complete loser, playing out the script of being a loser the best way he can think. So many Dan songs are about losers in all their manifestations, the theme of "loser" is central here in any interpretation. It is such a wonderful song though isn't it. I must have listened to it at least 500 times and I still love it. |
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